Studies in Formal Slavic Linguistics

This book is concerned with explicit descriptions of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and with computational-linguistic aspects of Slavic languages, mostly within the Principles and Parameters framework, which situates linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences. Through the description of specific linguistic phenomena in Slavic languages, the papers in this volume contribute to the development of linguistic theory.

The Editors: Franc Maruši? and Rok Žaucer teach (Slovenian) linguistics at the University of Nova Gorica (Slovenia). In 2006, the editors organized the conference «Formal Descriptions of Slavic Languages 6.5 (FDSL 6.5)» in Nova Gorica.

: Željko Boškovi?: On Two Types of Negative Constituents and Negative Concord – Carlos de Cuba/Ivana Mitrovi?: Restrictions on WH-Adjunct Movement in Serbian – Bart?omiej Czaplicki: Decomposition of Nasal Vowels in Polish – V?ra Dvo?áková-Procházková: Argument Structure of Czech Event Nominals – Alja Ferme: Morphological Complexity and Obstruent Devoicing in Slovene – Steven Franks: Deriving Discontinuity – Atle Grønn: Russian Aspect as Bidirectional Optimization – Natalia Ivlieva/Alexander Podobryaev: Bound to be Bound: on Certain Similarities between Pronominal and Anaphor Binding – Vesselina Laskova: Double Definiteness Constructions in Colloquial Bulgarian – Markéta Lopatková/Martin Plátek/Petr Sgall: Functional Generative Description, Restarting Automata and Analysis by Reduction – Tatjana Marvin: The Interaction between Stress, Syntax and Meaning in Slovenian Priscianic Formations – Ora Matushansky: The Case of Predication – Lucie Medová: Reflexive Clitics, Movement and Layered Case – Anna Pazelskaya: Argument Structure in Russian Deverbal Nouns in – María Luisa Rivero/Milena Milojevi? Sheppard: Revisiting Involuntary State Constructions in Slovenian – Peter Staroverov: Type-Shifting and Lexical Semantics in the Interpretation of Russian Conjoined Relational Nouns – Igor Yanovich: Ordinary Property and Identifying Property WH-Words: Two -s in Russian – Markéta Ziková: Why are Case Markers in the Czech Nominal Declension not Cyclic Suffixes? – Sašo Živanovi?: Varieties of : on Different Readings of Superlative Determiners.