Slavica 50th Anniversary Reissues

A Short Dictionary of 18th-Century Russian is one of several useful philological tools Slavica has published in its fifty years. A similar tool we reprinted in hard copy form is the 2012 corrected reprint of Horace Lunt’s A Concise Dictionary of Old Russian: 11th–17th Centuries, edited by and with additional material developed by Oscar Swan; information at https://slavica.indiana.edu/bookListings/linguistics/Concise_ Dictionary_of_Old_Russian. Both books are intended to supplement an excellent vocabulary in modern Russian, and merely cover gaps or additions which apply to old and medieval Russian.

Slavica would like to express its sincere thanks to the late Charles E. Gribble for graciously granting permission for this reprint. (Professor Gribble passed away on June 3, 2016; for details see https://cmrs.osu.edu/ news/memoriam-dr.-charles-chuck-gribble.) We welcome comments on this and other forthcoming titles to be released in this series.

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Lord Novgorod the Great: Essays in the History and Culture of a Medieval City-State is one of several major works Henrik Birnbaum produced as part of his extensive research in this area, including a second book with Slavica in 1996 (Novgorod in Focus, still in print as of this writing). Two other books appeared with other publishers, so this topic manifestly constituted one of the major touchstones of his long and eminent research career.

Slavica would like to express its sincere thanks to Marianna Birnbaum for graciously granting permission for this reprint. We welcome comments on this and other forthcoming titles to be released in this series.

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Unlike the other titles we are releasing as part of this jubilee series, Ol’ga Freidenberg’s Works and Days is not out of print, so if you want to own the printed book, don’t hesitate to order it. However, the book has never been distributed widely in Russia, where its primary readership is actually located, so this seemed like an auspicious opportunity to make it available to scholars in Russia. Nina Perlina was our colleague at Indiana University when she published this book with Slavica, the first from our local faculty to take advantage of the fact that we now run a publishing house.

Slavica would like to express its sincere thanks to Nina Perlina for graciously granting permission for this reprint. We welcome comments on this and other forthcoming titles to be released in this series.

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The Origins of the Slavs: A Linguist’s View is a deep philological investigation into the identification of the original homeland where the Slavic languages and ethnicities coalesced as distinct from other Indo-European peoples. Zbigniew Gołąb, Professor of Slavic Linguistics at the University of Chicago, surveys a huge range of data and contributes numerous original analytical points of his own.

Slavica would like to express its sincere thanks to the late author’s wife Janina Gołąbowa. We welcome comments on this and other forthcoming titles to be released in this series.

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Recent Advances in the Reconstruction of Common Slavic (1971–1982) continues the work of the original Common Slavic: Progress and Problems in its Reconstruction in annotating the literature on comparative/historical Slavic linguistics. Although the literature goes back over 40 years, much of it is still au courant, and the commentaries are incisive and helpful even to the 21st-­‐‑century reader. No further supplements were published, more’s the pity, and Slavica would eagerly welcome a proposal by an expert in this area to continue Birnbaum and Merrill’s invaluable work. Email us if you happen to be so disposed.

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Also see related reissue of Common Slavic: Progress and Problems in its Reconstruction