American Contributions to the 14th International Congress of Slavists, Ohrid, September 2008,
Vol. 1: Linguistics

Christina Y. Bethin (ed.)

Volume 1: Linguistics

Ronelle Alexander
Rhythmic Structure Constituents and Clitic Placement in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian

Christina Y. Bethin
On Quantity Dissimilation in East Slavic

Daniel E. Collins
Purging Greek in the Legend of Salonica: A Medieval Slavic Myth of Language

Andrii Danylenko
The New Ukrainian Standard Language of 1798: Tradition vs. Innovation

Katarzyna Dziwirek
A Folk Classification of Polish Emotions: Evidence from a Corpus-Based Study

Masako U. Fidler
Between Grammar and Onomatopoeia: Sound-Symbolic Schemata in Czech

Grace E. Fielder
The Status of Discourse Markers as Balkanisms in South Slavic

Victor A. Friedman
Balkan Slavic Dialectology and Balkan Linguistics: Periphery as Center

Frank Y. Gladney
On Prefixed Nouns in Late Common Slavic

Lenore A. Grenoble
Syntax Meets Discourse: Subordination in Slavic

Laura A. Janda Semantic Motivations for Aspectual Clusters of Russian Verbs

George Mitrevski
On the Classification of Macedonian Proverbs in an Electronic Database

Alan Timberlake
The Grammar of Oral Narrative in the Povest´ vremennykh let

C. M. Vakareliyska
A Typology of Slavic Menology Traditions

Curt Woolhiser
Convergent and Divergent Innovation in the Belarusian Dialects of the Bialystok and Hrodna Regions: A Sociolinguistic Border Impact Study

These two volumes of articles reflecting the scope of Slavic studies in the U.S. for the 2008 International Congress of Slavists are recommended for library collections at four-year colleges and research universities.