Books

Darden, Bill J.

Studies in Phonological Theory and Historical Linguistics

This book provides some of the fruits of a career teaching Slavic linguistics and phonological theory. Bill Darden was trained in both Prague-School linguistics and generative phonology, and integrates both in his work. He was among the early proponents...

Masha Belyavski-Frank

Grapevine and Rose: Muslim Oral Ballads from Bosnia-Herzegovina

An important part of Balkan folk literature, oral ballads of the Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina are part of the European tradition of ballads. One of the broad themes that one encounters repeatedly in Bosnian Muslim oral ballads is the stepping outside of...

Mikoś, Michael J

City of Memory: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Polish Poetry

City of Memory brings together 122 poems written by 21 authors in the last quarter century. These writers draw upon the deep-rooted tradition of Polish literature established by poets like Kochanowski, Norwid, and Herbert, whose worldviews and...

Tore Nesset

How Russian Came to be the Way It Is: A Student’s Guide to the History of the Russian Language

Time machines do not exist, but books are good substitutes. This book takes you two thousand years back in time and explains how the Russian language came to be the way it is by reviewing all major changes in the grammar and sound system. In addition...

Adele Lindenmeyr and Melissa K. Stockdale (eds.)

RGWR V10: Women and Gender in Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914–22

World War I, followed by four more years of revolution and civil conflict, exerted its power to both liberate and destroy in Russia on a scale unsurpassed elsewhere in Europe. It accelerated improvements in women’s status and employment...

David R. Stone et al. (eds.)

RGWR V5, B3: The Russian Civil War: Military and Society

This book--one of two covering the Russian Civil War in a volume on military affairs during Russia’s Great War and Revolution--explores institutions, social groups, and social conflict amid the chaos of the war that followed the Russian...

By Aleksander Wat, Translated by Frank L. Vigoda, Edited and with an Introduction by Gwido Zlatkes

Against the Devil in History: Poems, Short Stories, Essays, Fragments

Aleksander Wat. This extraordinary poet can be seen against the background of three periods of the 20th century. Born in 1900 to a Jewish merchant family in Warsaw, he became an anarchist and futurist, edited a communist journal, and was imprisoned by...

Dickey, Steven M., and Mark R. Lauersdorf (eds.)

V zeleni drželi zeleni breg: Studies in Honor of Marc L. Greenberg

This volume of essays honors Marc L. Greenberg for his distinguished contributions to research in the field of Slavic linguistics, as well as for his effort in support of foreign languages in American higher education, most notably as a professor and...

Edited by Steven L. Franks, Vrinda Chidambaram, Brian D. Joseph, and Iliyana Krapova

Katerino Mome: Studies in Bulgarian Morphosyntax in Honor of Catherine Rudin

As demonstrated by the diverse contributions to this volume, Catherine Rudin occupies a special position in Bulgarian linguistics. Since her 1982 Indiana University dissertation, she has come to be known as the doyenne of Bulgarian generative syntax. Her...

Judith Deutsch Kornblatt (ed.)

American Contributions to the 16th International Congress of Slavists Vol. 2: Literature

The 2018 volumes of American contributions to the quintennial series of international congresses bringing together the world's Slavists provides a representative sampling of current trends in Slavic literature, linguistics, and philology as practiced in...

Christina Y. Bethin (ed.)

American Contributions to the 16th International Congress of Slavists Vol. 1: Linguistics

The 2018 volumes of American contributions to the quintennial series of international congresses bringing together the world's Slavists provides a representative sampling of current trends in Slavic literature, linguistics, and philology as practiced in...

Bauckus, Susan and Susan Kresin (eds.)

Connecting across Languages and Cultures: A Heritage Language Festchrift in Honor of Olga Kagan

As the founding director of the National Heritage Language Resource Center and the Heritage Language Journal, Olga Kagan has been a core figure in the development of the field of heritage language studies. By promoting both the creation of a foundational...