American Contributions to the Ninth International Congress of Slavists (Kiev 1983) Vol. 1: Linguistics
Edited by Michael S. Flier
381 p., 1983 (ISBN: 0-89357-112-1), $29.95.

Contents: Ronelle Alexander: Directions of Morphophonemic Change in Balkan Slavic: The Accentuation of the Present Tense; Robert Channon: A Comparative Sketch of Certain Anaphoric Processes in Russian and English; Catherine V. Chvany: On `Definiteness' in Bulgarian, English and Russian; James Ferrell: Names with Stems ending in zhl-ch in Old Russian; Michael S. Flier: The Alternation l-v in East Slavic; Frank Y. Gladney: Did Slavic Develop Declension Classes?; Zbigniew Golab: The Ethnogenesis of the Slavs in the Light of Linguistics; Marvin Kantor: The Second Old Slavonic Legend of St. Wenceslas: Problems of Translation and Dating; Emily Klenin: The Genitive-Accusative as a Slavonicism in the Laurentian Manuscript of 1377: The Problem of Text Segmentation; Henry Kuchera: A Semantic Model of Verbal Aspect; Rado L. Lencek: From Language Interference to the Influence of Area in Dialect-Geography; Robert Mathiesen: The Typology of Cyrillic Manuscripts (East Slavic vs. South Slavic Old Testament Manuscripts); Kenneth E. Naylor: On Expressing "Definiteness" in the Slavic Languages and English; Johanna Nichols and Joe Schallert: The Pragmatics of Raising in Old Russian and Common Slavic; David F. Robinson: On Loanwords between Baltic and Slavic; A. Schenker: Glavnye puti leksicheskikh zaimstvovanii v slavianskikh iazykakh (na materiale cheshskogo, pol'skogo i vostochnoslavianskikh iazykov X-XVI vv.); William R. Schmalstieg: Morphological Considerations on the Balto-Slavic Problem; Edward Stankiewicz: The Collective and Counted Plurals of the Slavic Nouns; Alan Timberlake: Compensatory Lengthening in Slavic, 2: Phonetic Reconstruction; C. N. Van Schooneveld: Contribution to the Systematic Comparison of Morphological and Lexical Semantic Structures in the Slavic Languages; Dean S. Worth: The "Second South Slavic Influence" in the History of the Russian Literary Language; Ol'ga Yokoyama: V zashchitu zapretnyx deeprichastii.