Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics (Brill)

Dedicated to Karl Gutschmidt. pdf contains front matter and contents (for both volumes). Vol. 2 contains diachrony (prehistory, Old Church Slavonic, early vernacular development), grammaticography, lexicography, dialectology, standardology, varieties, typology

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The Slavic Languages (TSL) covers a very large number of topics as they apply to eleven modern Slavic languages (both varieties of Sorbian are treated together, and Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian are treated under the single label B/C/S). Reference is also made to Common Slavic, as well as to Old Church Slavonic. This feat is accomplished by offering a rather limited treatment of most topics. For example, in the chapter on Slavic dialects, approximately three pages are devoted to the dialectology of each of the eleven languages considered. Since this approach only scratches the surface, it would be easy to accumulate large numbers of topics which are considered essential, but which were not included in this book's chapters. This review will concentrate on what is good and what is bad about the topics which are covered by TSL, but occasionally it will be necessary to indicate topics of great importance which have been omitted. One wonders about the intended audience of this book. On the one hand, it seems too specialized for the non-Slavic linguist, who may not want full coverage of all eleven languages on every possible historical, phonological, morphological, and syntactic topic. Most such books-the classic being De Bray (1969) and by far the best to our mind being Comrie and Corbett (1993)-have a separate chapter for each Slavic language, but the approach adopted by the authors of TSL is to sequentially treat each topic as it applies to the various Slavic languages. This would permit a linguist to immediately focus on a target language, instead of having to see each issue dealt with in terms of all the Slavic languages. The representative on the various languages also does not seem balanced; Sorbian in particular seems overrepresented vis-à-vis other, much more studied, Slavic languages. Moreover, many of the discussions combine and confuse phenomena which we feel would have been better treated separately. On the other hand, if the book is a bit daunting to the non-Slavist, its coverage of many issues will surely be seen as oversimplified from the vantage point of the Slavic specialist. The discussion of syntax is cursory and superficial while, as noted, the coverage of dialect zones gives only a brief description of each area. The approach of treating each topic in terms of all the Slavic languages means that a consistent system of phonetic and phonemic transcription must be used. Since all Cyrillic spellings are transliterated into the Latin alphabet, it means that the authors are constantly operating with three transcription systems across eleven or more languages. This complex system, set forth on pp. 590-592, would seem very complex for the non-Slavist. The all-important palatalized consonants are marked with an ''italic prime,'' while the usual apostrophe indicates a palatal www.elsevier.com/locate/lingua

Balcania et Slavia. Studi linguistici | Studies in Linguistics, 2023

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The chapter presents a broad overview of current research on the formal properties of Slavic languages developing in heritage language settings. Representative studies on heritage Russian, Polish, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Serbian, and Croatian are synthesized along the following grammatical dimensions: In the nominal and verbal domains, I review properties of the heritage Slavic case and gender systems and the encoding of temporal distinctions through aspect and tense morphology. At the levels of sentence organization and discourse structure, I survey word order change pertaining to the syntax of clitics and the placement of clausal constituents to convey information-structural distinctions. The concluding discussion identifies the key overarching principles underlying the changes attested across the surveyed linguistic varieties and outlines directions for future studies in heritage Slavic linguistics.

Greenberg, Marc L. 2016. “Slavic.” Kapović, Mate (ed.), The Indo-European Languages: 519–551. London: Routledge.

Edulingua, 2015

Report on the 5th International Conference on Foreign Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics and the International Forum on Slavic Studies, 2015, International Burch University, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Compiled by Laura A. Janda and Ljiljana Šarić This bibliography has not been updated since 2009. The sources of the data for the bibliography were limited: we have largely relied on information provided by the authors. The bibliography certainly does not contain all the works dealing with Slavic in the framework of Cognitive Linguistics up to 2009, but we hope that it illustrates the great variety of topics dealt with, and that it will serve as a useful source of information