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Linguistics
Contents
Foreword 7
Edna Andrews
Markedness Theory: An Explication of its Theoretical Basis and Applicability in Semantic Analysis 9
Ronald F. Feldstein
On the Evolution of Jer + Liquid Diphthongs in Polish and West Slavic 25
Robert Fradkin
The Semantic Structure of the Tenses in Literary Arabic 42
Helena Goscilo
His Master's Voice: Pushkin Chez Bulgakov 54
Louise B. Hammer
On the Phonological Nature of Slovak Diphthongs 67
Ante Kadiü
Life and Works of Miroslav Krlezha (1893-1981) 75
Steinar E. Kottum
Nominative vs. Instrumental Predicate in Polish 90
Joel Levenberg
Indicating Possession in Serbo-Croatian 96
Maurice I. Levin
Stress Variation in Russian Verbal Morphology 103
David Lowe
The Sources for the Opera in War and Peace 112
Ronald Meyer
Andrej Bitov's "Bednyi Vsadnik" 121
Paul M. Mitchell
Deformation and Structure in Belyj's Peterburg 138
Marilyn Nelson
Structure and Exegesis in "Jaroslav Founded the Great City" from the Primary Chronicle 143
Lawrence D. Orton
The Czechs and Their Fellow Slavs in 1848 155
Catherine Rudin
Bulgarian Relativization Strategies 164
Rodney B. Sangster
Autopoiesis and Language: A Chapter in the Development of Phenomenological Structuralism 175
Charles E. Townsend
Verb Classes in Colloquial Standard Czech 190
C. H. van Schooneveld and Stephen Soudakoff
Lexical Transitivity Versus Compositional Transitivity in Russian 202
This collection of essays surveys recent methodological developments in the art and science of teaching Slavic languages and cultures. The volume includes 37 contributions spanning the full range of Slavic language study and reflecting the rich diversity of approaches in this field. The volume has three principal goals: in the keynote papers, to illuminate for all Slavists the current sitution of the art of foreign languages in general; in the refereed papers, to showcase current research in the field of Slavic-language studies; and in the response papers, to raise important questions for consideration for the years to come.
Winner, 2001 AATSEEL Award for Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy (American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages)
It may be stated without fear of contradiction that Professor Charles E. Townsend of Princeton University has been the most influential writer on Russian and Slavic grammar in the United States. Every graduate student devours his Russian Word-Formation, and returns to it over and over through his or her academic career. Many Slavists have studied Czech or Common Slavic from his books; and still others have studied or taught Russian from his textbooks. This volume in his honor features articles by his colleagues and former students devoted to four vital areas enriched by Charles Townsend's own scholarship and teaching: Language Function; Language Form: Phonology; Language Form: Morphology & Syntax; and Language in Context.
Contents
Charles E. Townsend: An Appreciation 1
Form, Function, and Context: A Quest to Revel the Systems of Language 7
*Form, Function, and Context: A Quest to Reveal the Systems of Language
Edna Andrews
Russian Derivational Morphology and Shifting Reference 11
Catherine V. Chvany
On Mnemonics, Word-Nests, and Etymologies 19
Laura A. Janda
Cases in Collision, Cases in Collusion: The Semantic Space of Case in Czech and Russian 43
Susan C. Kresin
Demonstratives, Definite Articles and Clines of Grammaticalization: Evidence from Russian and Spoken Czech 63
*Language Form: Phonology
Christina Y. Bethin
Czech Stress in the Context of West Slavic 75
Ronald F. Feldstein
On the Classification of Ukrainian Nominal Stress Paradigms 91
Frank Y. Gladney
On Length and Accent in Czech Nouns 105
Borjana Velčeva and Ernest Scatton
Цалчбкама сц е целубка: A Problem in Bulgarian Historical Dialectology 119
Dean S. Worth
Microphilology and Textology: the Monomax Section of the Boris and Gleb Skazanie 125
*Language Form: Morphology & Syntax
Leonard H. Babby
Bare Infinitives, Predicate Adjectives, and Control in Russian 135
Marjorie McShane
Out of the Box; Biljana Sljivic-Simsic: Verbal Stems in -‹a and -ja in the Contemporary Serbian Language 147
Biljana Slijivic-Simsic
Verbal Stems in -ča and -ja in the Comtemporary Serbian Language 157
Cynthia M. Vakareliyska
Na-Drop Revisited: Omission of the Dative Marker in Bulgarian Dative Object Doubling Constructions 165
*Language in Context
Eva Eckert
Language Variation, Contact and Shift in Tombstone Inscriptions 193
Masako U. Fidler
Relational Features in Political Language: A Comparison of Speeches by Havel, Clinton and Mori; Emily Klenin: Russian Word Formation and the Heron 213
Emily Klenin
Russian Word Formation and the Heron 229
JiÞ’ Kraus
Orality/Literacy Contrast in the Development of Language Description 237
Mark R. Lauersdorf
Slovak Standard Language Development in the 15thÐ18th Centuries: A Diglossia Approach 245
Michael K. Launer
Innovative Nominal and Adjectival Word-Formation Models in Technical Russian 265
Peter Rehder
On the (Socio)Linguistic Status of the Bosnian Language Today 287
Petr Sgall
Spoken Czech Revisited. 299
Professor Emeritus Howard I. Aronson of the University of Chicago has been celebrated for his linguistic scholarship on Balkan and South Slavic linguistics, as well as his groundbreaking work on Georgian grammar and language instruction (including his two textbooks with Slavica). This Festschrift honors his Balkan and South Slavic persona with a collection featuring a virtual Who's Who of North American scholars in this area. Contents Victor A. Friedman: Preface 1 Donald L. Dyer: Foreword 5 The Publications of Howard I. Aronson 7 Ronelle Alexander
Bridging the Descriptive Chasm: The Bulgarian "Generalized Past" 13
Masha Belyavski-Frank
Turkisms in Bosnian Literature after 1992 43
Henry R. Cooper, Jr.
Modern Slovene and Macedonian Bible Translations Compared and Contrasted 57
Bill J. Darden
Macedonian as a Model for the Development of Indo-European Tense and Aspect 85
Stephen M. Dickey
Distributive Verbs in Serbian and Croatian 103
Donald L. Dyer
The Balkans and Moldova: One Sprachbund or Two? 117
Mark J. Elson
The Case for Agglutinative Structure in East Balkan Slavic Verbal Inflection 139
Ali Eminov
The Nation-State and Minority Languages: Turkish in Bulgaria 155
Grace E. Fielder
Questioning the Dominant Paradigm: An Alternative View of the Grammaticalization of the Bulgarian Evidential 171
Victor A. Friedman
Hunting the Elusive Evidential: The Third-Person Auxiliary as a Boojum in Bulgarian 203
Jane Hacking
Attitudes to Macedonian Conditional Formation: The Use of dokolku and bi 231
Eric P. Hamp
On Serbo-Croatian's Historic Laterals 243
Brian D. Joseph
On an Oddity in the Development of Weak Pronouns in Deictic Expressions in the Languages of the Balkans 251
Kostas Kazazis
High-Low Diglossic Code-Switching in a Greek Announcement 269
Christina Kramer
Anton Panov's Play Pecalbari and Its Role in the Standardization of Macedonian 279
Katia McClain
Verbal Categories in Bulgarian: Evidence from Acquisition 293
Sofija Miloradovic and Robert Greenberg
The Transition from South Slavic to Balkan Slavic: Key Morphological Features in Serbian Transitional Dialects 309
Tom Priestly
Some Anomalies in Slovene Dialect Diachronic Morphology and an Explanation Using "Markedness Reversal" 323
Catherine Rudin
Clitic Pronoun Ordering in the Balkan Languages 339
Joeseph Schallert
Southwest Bulgarian Dialect Features in the Fakija (Grudovo Dialect of Southeastern Bulgaria: (с)кuна 'to pluck' 359
Edward Stankiewicz
The Compounded Plural Endings and Grammatical Categories of the Balkan Masculine Nouns 367