Linguistics

Flier et al.

Philology Broad and Deep: In Memoriam Horace Gray Lunt

Horace Gray Lunt (1918–2010), one of the leading Slavic philologists of his time, spent his entire academic career at Harvard University (1949–89), where he helped to train generations of graduate students in Slavic philology and...

Lunt, Horace G.

Concise Dictionary of Old Russian

Horace G. Lunt’s Concise Dictionary of Old Russian is a “bridge” dictionary spanning the lexical territory between Old Church Slavic and Modern Russian. For all its 40-plus years, it remains the best available short dictionary (some...

Hart & Lundberg

Fundamentals of the Structure and History of Russian

This text presents a systematic approach to understanding the patterns and alternations in the sounds and structures of Russian. The approach is “usage- based” as found in the theoretical works of Ronald Langacker, Joan Bybee, and others...

Olga Miseka Tomič

A Grammar of Macedonian

A Grammar of Macedonian is the first comprehensive reference grammar to this language couched in the framework of generative grammar. The author has ensured cross-framework accessibility of the data by the constrained use of technical...

Nørgård-Sørensen, Jens

Russian Nominal Semantics and Morphology

The principal idea behind this book is that lexis and grammar make up a single coherent structure. It is shown that the grammatical patterns of the different classes of Russian nominals are closely interconnected. They can be described as...

Franks et al.

A Linguist’s Linguist: Studies In South Slavic Linguistics in Honor of E. Wayles Browne

For nearly fifty years E. Wayles Browne has been a unique and almost irreplaceable intellectual resource for specialists in Slavic linguistics, working on a myriad of topics in a variety of languages and from a range of theoretical perspectives. He...

Rothstein, Robert

Two Words to the Wise

Since July 2004 Robert Rothstein has been writing about Polish language, literature and folklore for the Boston-based biweekly Biały Orzeł/White Eagle. Inspired by the calender, by items in the Polish press, by his experience learning and teaching...

Cravens et al.

Between Texts, Languages and Cultures

From the editors: Czech studies in the United States would be inconceivable without Mike’s pioneering work, both his methodologically groundbreaking textbook and his numerous translations of Czech literature, including works by Karel Čapek, Bohumil...

Bethin, Christina Y.

American Contributions to the 14th International Congress of Slavists vol. 1: Linguistics

Contents Ronelle Alexander Rhythmic Structure Constituents and Clitic Placement in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian     1 Christina Y. Bethin On Quantity Dissimilation in East Slavic     21 Daniel E...

Barrack & Voyles

Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Early Indo-European Languages

An Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Early Indo-European languages is intended to supply the reader with what Oswald Szemerényi has termed the “basic equipment” for any in-depth study of Indo-European: namely, some knowledge...

Aronson et al.

The Bill Question

Contributions to the Study of Linguistics and Languages in Honor of Bill J. Darden on the Occasion of His Sixty-Sixth Birthday.   "Howard Aronson tells a story from the days when Bill Darden was a graduate student at the University of Chicago...

Marder, Stephen

A Supplementary Russian-English Dictionary, Second Edition

The new edition of A Supplementary Russian-English Dictionary (ASRED 2) follows the same principles outlined in the first edition of 1992 and, likewise, contains important words and expressions not found in either of the two dictionaries most often...