Selected Proceedings of the 14th Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society

The volume presents fifteen papers from diverse areas of Slavic linguistics, including syntax and semantics, both synchronic and diachronic.

The volume is a collection of papers in diverse areas of Slavic linguistics, selected from the 14th annual meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society, held at the University of Potsdam on 1113 September 2019. The volume is dedicated to Peter Kosta, longtime chair of Slavic linguistics at the Department of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Potsdam, in recognition of his enormous contributions to the field. Contents: Publications of Peter Kosta Vrinda Subhalaxmi Chidambaram: A Case of Parasitic Attrition: The disappearance of the degree morpheme - in Bulgarian and Macedonian superlative adjectives Steven Franks: Reflexive Typology, Movement, and the Structure of NP Jadranka Gvozdanovi:'Have' + infinitive in Czech: A long multilingual history Iliyana Krapova and Tomislav Soanac: Factivity in South Slavic languages: Complement and relative clauses Alexander Letuchiy: 'Missed TAM': The lack of tense and mood marking in Russian argument conditionals semantic and formal motivation Franc Lanko Marui and Rok aucer: Investigation of Slovenian copular agreement James Joshua Pennington: Today's Grammaticalization Theory is Yesterday's Grammaticalization: The BCMS Future as An(other) Strike Against the Unidirectionality Hypothesis Katrin Schlund: On the origin of East Slavic Elemental Constructions/Adversity Impersonals. Evidence from town chronicles of Old Rus' Luka Szucsich and Karolina Zuchewicz: Incrementality and (non)clausal complementation in Slavic Alan Timberlake: String Syntax Beata Trawiski: Polish eby under Negation Mladen Uhlik and Andreja ele: Reflexive Possessive Pronouns in Slovene: A Contrastive Analysis with Russian Vladislava Warditz: Structural Variation in Heritage Russian in Germany: Language Usage or Language Change? Jacek Witko: On Some Aspects of Agree, Move and Bind in the Nominal Domain Ilse Zimmermann: On Pronouns Relating to Clauses

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Steven L. Franks is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington, and holds degrees from Princeton, UCLA, and Cornell. Franks is the author of Parameters of Slavic Morphosyntax(1995), Syntax and Spell-Out in Slavic(2017), and Microvariation in the South Slavic Noun Phrase(2020), and is a co-author of A Handbook of Slavic Clitics(2000) and Polish(2002). He has published over 100 articles and co-edited a dozen volumes; in addition, he is one of the founders of the Slavic Linguistics Society and of the Journal of Slavic Linguistics.

Alan H. Timberlake has taught at UCLA, the University of California at Berkeley, and Columbia University. He is the author of The Nominative Object in Slavic, Baltic, and West Finnic(1974) and A Reference Grammar of Russian(2004). He does research on various aspects of Slavic linguistics and cultures (phonology, syntax, geography, sacred texts).

Anna W. Wietecka holds degrees in philology and German studies from the

Samuel-Bogumi -Linde-College of Higher Education in Poznä, Poland, and in foreign languages from the University of Potsdam, Germany. She is a research assistant and doctoral student at the chair of Slavic Linguistics, Department of Slavic languages and literatures, University of Potsdam. Her main areas of teaching and research are in language acquisition, Polish and German syntax, bilingualism, and multilingualism.

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Slavic Linguistics Morphology Syntax Semantics Diachronic Synchronic