The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics

With contributions from a global team of authors, this Handbook provides a systematic review of cutting-edge research in Slavic linguistics.

Danko Šipka (Edited by), Wayles Browne (Edited by)

9781108832670, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 23 May 2024

800 pages
25 x 17.7 x 4.7 cm, 1.54 kg

'A unique collection of contributions covering all the distinctive properties of the Slavic languages and representing the current state of the art in Slavic phonology, morphology, syntax, and the lexicon. This Handbook will be a key source for anyone researching Slavic languages, as well as an invaluable tool for university courses in Slavic linguistics.' Iliyana Krapova, Associate Professor in Slavic Linguistics, University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Italy

The linguistic study of the Slavic language family, with its rich syntactic and phonological structures, complex writing systems, and diverse socio-historical context, is a rapidly growing research area. Bringing together contributions from an international team of authors, this Handbook provides a systematic review of cutting-edge research in Slavic linguistics. It covers phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, lexicology, and sociolinguistics, and presents multiple theoretical perspectives, including synchronic and diachronic. Each chapter addresses a particular linguistic feature pertinent to Slavic languages, and covers the development of the feature from Proto-Slavic to present-day Slavic languages, the main findings in historical and ongoing research devoted to the feature, and a summary of the current state of the art in the field and what the directions of future research will be. Comprehensive yet accessible, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students in theoretical linguistics, linguistic typology, sociolinguistics and Slavic/East European Studies.

Slavic linguistics introduction Wayles Browne
1. Word stress Draga Zec
2. Vocalism: the vowels Irena Sawicka
3. Consonantism: the consonants Peter Jurgec
4. Syllable structure Alexei Kochetov
5. Phonologically conditioned alternations Darya Kavitskaya
6. Prosodic reflexes of information structure Radek Simík
7. Inflectional endings: declensions Marek Majer
8. Inflectional endings: conjugation Ian Press
9. Tense and mood forms Hagen Pitsch
10. Aspect in verbs Stephen M. Dickey
11. Lexical derivation Frank Y. Gladney
12. Lexical composition Mate Kapović
13. Agreement Jana Willer gold
14. Wh-constructions and wh-dependencies Barbara Citko
15. Coordination and subordination in slavic languages Milan Mihaljević
16. Numerals and quantity expressions Steven Franks
17. Placement and ordering of the (en)clitics Lanko Marušič, Petra Mišmaš and Rok Zaucer
18. Secondary predication Nerea Madariaga
19. Negation and polarity Luka Szucsich
20. Null subjects Alina Lsraeli
21. Voice Jasmina Milićević
22. Morphosyntactic reflexes of information structure Elena Titov
23. The structure of the lexicon Valentina Apresjan and Alexei Shmelev
24. Lexical semantics (insights from lexicology) Rajna Dragićević
25. Lexical borrowing Rajna Dragićević
26. Sociolinguistic variation in slavic languages Serge Sharoff
27. False cognates Danko Šipka and Mladen Uhlik
28. Dialectal fragmentation Joseph Schallert
29. Language contacts Dieter Stern
30. The slavic literary micro-languages Motoki Nomachi
31. Heritage language forms Oksana Laleko
32. Scripts Daniel Bunčić
33. Orthographies Daniel Bunčić
34. Psycholinguistics and language acquisition Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan and Irina A. Sekerina
35. Natural language processing Tomaž Erjavec.

Subject Areas: Linguistics [CF]