Formalization of Grammar in Slavic Languages

Contents: Ales Bican: Structure of Syllables in Czech - Malgorzata Cavar: Merger of the Place Contrast in the Posterior Sibilants in Croatian - Ondrej Sevcík: Features of Common Slavic Ablaut Alternation - Natalya Klyueva/Petr Homola/Ondrej Bojar: Towards a Rule-Based Machine Translation System between Czech and Russian - Zhanna Glushan: On Animacy and Unaccusativity in Russian - Elena Gorishneva: Inductive vs. Non-Inductive Generics in Russian and Bulgarian - Beata Trawinski: A Compositional Semantics for Comitative Constructions - Andrei Antonenko: Binding by Phases: Principle A in Russian - Steven Franks: Dynamic Spell-Out as Interface Optimization - Elena Gorishneva/Ilse Zimmermann: Wh-Words and the Indefinite Particle -to in Russian - Hana Gruet-Skrabalova: Czech questions with two wh-words - Gasper Ilc: Optionality of the Genitive (of Negation) in Slovene - Katarzyna Janic: On development of antipassive function: what do Australian and Slavonic languages have in common? - Slavica Kochovska: Dislocated Direct Objects in Macedonian - Peter Kosta: Causatives and Anti-Causatives, Unaccusatives and Unergatives: Or how big is the contribution of the lexicon to syntax? - Alexander Letuchiy: Reciprocity and similar meanings in Slavic languages and SAE - Nina Radkevich: PPs of Different Sizes - Tanya Scott: Multiple Sluicing: A purely syntactic account - Joanna Smiecinska: Wh-scope marking strategies in Polish - Natasha Todorovich: How many da(s) are there in Serbian? - Hannu Tommola: On Slavic and Finno-Ugric vs. Standard Average European - Rok Zaucer: Some multiply prefixed 'verbs' as covert serial verb construction.

Peter Kosta is Professor of Slavic Linguistics and Chair at the Slavic Department at Potsdam University. Focus of research: Biolinguistics, Theory of Language, Comparative Slavic Syntax and the Typology of Languages.
Lilia Schürcks, PhD, is since 2005 Associate Professor of Slavic Linguistics at the Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Potsdam. Her fields of research include Slavic Syntax, Generative Syntax, Binding Theory, DP/NP, Identity and Language.