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Fidler, Masako Ueda

Onomatopoeia in Czech

The first systematic view of onomatopoeia focuses on the relationship between onomatopoeia and grammar in Czech. It demonstrates that onomatopoeia as a linguistic device can add a special dimension and depth to the progression of text, such as the...

Friedman, Victor

Grammatical Categories of the Macedonian Indicative, 2nd Revised Edition

In terms of the morphosyntax, semantics, and pragmatics of its verbal system, Macedonian differs significantly from both Bulgarian and from Bosnian / Croatian / Montenegrin / Serbian (BCMS). Macedonian is closer to Bulgarian than to BCMS both in its...

Janda et al.

Why Russian Aspectual Prefixes Aren’t Empty

In this monograph the authors assert that Russian verbal prefixes always express meaning, even when they are used to form the perfective partners of aspectual pairs. The prefixes in verbs like написать/na-pisat' 'write' and сварить/s-varit' 'cook'...

Scherr, Barry

Poetry & Poetics: A Centennial Tribute to Kiril Taranovsky

During a distinguished academic career at Belgrade University, UCLA, and Harvard University, Kiril Taranovsky became extraordinarily influential for his contributions to verse theory and for studies devoted to Russian poets, especially those of the...

Coffin, Lyn

Georgian Poetry: Rustaveli to Galaktion

The poetry of Georgia, a country of ancient culture in the South Caucasus, is the crown jewel of its exceptionally rich literary heritage. Secular poetry, having emerged from the fusion of folk poems and religious hymns and homilies of the early...

Rudin, Catherine

Aspects of Bulgarian Syntax 2nd, Revised Edition

This volume presents an analysis of clause structure in Bulgarian, with special focus on several interrelated areas: complementizers and complementation, wh-movement constructions including a variety of relative and interrogative clauses, and the...

Martin et al.

Dubitando: Studies in History and Culture in Honor of Donald Ostrowski

This collection of essays is offered with sincere gratitude and admiration to Donald Ostrowski, Instructor in Extension Studies at Harvard University and one of the most important scholars of Ukraine, Russia, and Eurasia in the last half century...

Melancon & Raleigh

Russia's Century of Revolutions Parties, People, Places

Alexander Rabinowitch is a towering figure among historians of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath. Distinguished by an unrivaled mastery of published and archival materials, a compelling narrative style and demythologizing interpretations, his...

Crone, Anna Lisa

Anna Lisa Crone: Collected Writings Volume 1: Poetry

This is the first of three volumes which comprise a set of Anna Lisa Crone's Collected Writings. Volume 1 collects her solo writings on Russian poetry, including an excerpt from her monograph on Gavrila Deržavin. Anna Lisa Crone had a 30-year career as a...

Danilevskii, Nikolai Iakovlevich

Russia & Europe: The Slavic World’s Political and Cultural Relations with the Germanic-Roman West

Out of print in Russia for almost a century, since 1991 Russia and Europe has appeared in at least eight new editions totaling more than 100,000 copies. As Russians have re-­‐‑evaluated their place in the world in the post-­‐‑Soviet era,...

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...