Forthcoming: Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2022

Berit Gehrke (ed), Denisa Lenertová (ed), Roland Meyer (ed), Daria Seres (ed), Luka Szucsich (ed), Joanna Zaleska (ed)

Synopsis

Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2022 brings together a collection of 22 articles originating as talks presented at the 15th Formal Description of Slavic Languages conference (FDSL 15) held in Berlin on 5–7 October, 2022. The contributions cover a broad spectrum of topics, including clitics, nominalizations, l-participles, the dual, verbal prefixes, assibilation, verbal and adjectival morphology, lexical stress, vowel reduction, focus particles, aspect, multiple wh-fronting, definiteness, polar questions, negation words, and argument structure in such languages as BCMS, Bulgarian, Czech, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Slovenian, Ukrainian, and Upper Sorbian.

The wide range of topics explored in this volume underscores the diversity and complexity of Slavic languages. The contributions not only advance our understanding of languages belonging to the Slavic group but also offer fresh perspectives for linguistics more broadly. 

Chapters

  • From scope freezing to, well, everything
    Investigations into the syntax of instrumentals in Ukrainian
    Svitlana Antonyuk
  • Slavic creation/consumption predicates in light of Talmy’s typology
    Alessandro Bigolin
  • Delimitatives, diminutive-iteratives and the secondary imperfective in North Slavic
    Petr Biskup
  • Bare nouns in Slavic and beyond
    Olga Borik, Bert Le Bruyn, Jianan Liu, Daria Seres
  • Multiple wh-fronting in a typological setting
    What is behind multiple wh-fronting?
    Željko Bošković
  • A quantification-based approach to plural pronoun comitatives
    Madeleine Butschety
  • Equatives and two theories of negative concord
    Mojmír Dočekal
  • The meaning of Czech response particles
    Kateřina Hrdinková, Radek Šimík
  • ABA in Russian adjectives, subextraction, and Nanosyntax
    Daniar Kasenov
  • Two types of secondary imperfectives
    Evidence from Polish and Bulgarian
    Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Vesela Simeonova
  • The (un)expectedly stacked prefixes in Slovenian
    Franc Marušič, Petra Mišmaš, Rok Žaucer
  • Russian verbal stress retraction as induced unstressability
    Ora Matushansky
  • Perfectivity in Russian, Czech and Colloquial Upper Sorbian
    Olav Mueller-Reichau
  • Polar questions in Czech and Russian
    An exploratory corpus investigation
    Maria Onoeva, Anna Staňková
  • Dual preservation in Slovenian
    The verb supports the noun in semi-spontaneous production
    Matic Pavlič, Artur Stepanov, Penka Stateva
  • Word prosodic structure and vowel reduction in Moscow and Perm Russian
    Margje Post
  • Morphosemantic mismatches with pronouns as a consequence of their internal structure
    Zorica Puškar-Gallien
  • Animacy influences segmental phonology
    The velar–sibilant alternation in BCMS
    Marko Simonović
  • How departicipial are “l-participle” nominalisations in Western South Slavic
    Marko Simonović, Stefan Milosavljević, Boban Arsenijević, Katarina Gomboc Čeh, Franc Lanko Marušič, Rok Žaucer
  • Focus-sensitive particles in Bulgarian
    Towards an adverbial-only analysis
    Carla Spellerberg
  • The Western South Slavic verbal suffix -nV /-ne is a diminutive affix with a theme vowel
    Ema Štarkl, Marko Simonović, Stefan Milosavljević, Boban Arsenijević
  • Wh-indefinites in Russian
    Ksenia Zanon

Biographies

Berit Gehrke

Berit Gehrke is a staff member of the Department of Slavic and Hungarian Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She received her PhD in 2008 from Utrecht, with a dissertation on the semantics and syntax of prepositions and motion events. She specializes in theoretical semantics, and its interfaces with syntax and pragmatics. Her particular research interests include event semantics, event structure, event kinds, argument structure, adjectival passives, and adjectival and adverbial modification.

Denisa Lenertová

Denisa Lenertová (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) specializes on syntax, information structure and prosody, her research interests include corpus-based and experimental methods. She has worked on the syntax and information structure of the left periphery, embedded root phenomena, the typology of Slavic reflexives and impersonals, clitics, and infinitival structures.

Roland Meyer

Roland Meyer is professor of West Slavic linguistics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He works on synchronic and diachronic morphosyntax, pragmatics, intonation, corpus linguistics and automatic processing of Slavic languages, with an emphasis on empirical methods and the relation between empirical data and linguistic theory.

Daria Seres

Daria Seres is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Graz. She holds a PhD in Romance Philology from Saint Petersburg State University (2012) and a PhD in Cognitive Science and Language from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2020). She is interested in the domain of cross-linguistic semantics (Slavic, Romance, and Germanic languages), focusing on referentiality, (in)definiteness, and genericity. Her research methods include corpus studies and experimental work.

Luka Szucsich

Luka Szucsich is professor of East Slavic linguistics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He works on morphosyntax of Slavic languages and its interfaces, esp. argument structure, case, relative clauses, and cross-clausal dependencies. His research interests also include heritage languages, bi- and multilingualism, and areal linguistics.

Joanna Zaleska

Joanna Zaleska is a lecturer in the Department of Slavic and Hungarian Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She earned her Ph.D. from Leipzig University in 2018 with a dissertation titled Coalescence without coalescence. Her research interests lie in phonological theory, particularly in issues of phonological opacity, the role of contrast, and many-to-one relationships between representational levels.

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December 3, 2024
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Gehrke, Berit, Lenertová, Denisa, Meyer, Roland, Seres, Daria, Szucsich, Luka & Zaleska, Joanna (eds.). Forthcoming. Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2022. (Open Slavic Linguistics). Berlin: Language Science Press.

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