Papers on the occasion of the Ninth International Congress of Slavists, Kiev, September, 1983
Contents
Foreword 7
Aleksandar Albijanic
The Advent and Demise of Serbian Church Slavic 9
Xenrik Birnbaum
Mestnye i khronologicheskie raznovidnosti drevnerusskoi kul'tury i ikh vnutrennie i vneshnie sviazi 19
Tomas Ekman
Kharakter i vozniknovenie svobodnogo stikha v poezii slavian 65
Michael S. Flier
The Origin of the Desinence ovo in Russian 85
Kenneth E. Harper
Under the Influence of Oblomov 105
Peter Hodgson
More on the Matter of Skaz: The Formalist Model 119
Emily Klenin
Verbs of Motion Prefixed in u- in Old and Modern Russian 155
Michael Shapiro
Journey to the Metonymic Pole: The Structure of Pushkin's `Little Tragedies' 169
Alan Timberlake
Compensatory Lengthening in Slavic: 1: Conditions and Dialect Geography 207
Dean S. Worth
Syntactic Paradigms and the Problem of Mood in Russian 237
"It is a nice tribute to the 1983 Congress from one of the leading centres of excellence in Slavistics." (ISS)
