From Los Angeles to Kiev Papers: on the Occasion of the Ninth International Congress of Slavists

Edited by Vladimir Markov and Dean S. Worth

250 p., 1983 (ISBN: 0-89357-119-9) (UCLA Slavic Studies, Volume 7), cloth: $24.95

Papers in literature and linguistics. Contents: Aleksandar Albijanic: The Advent and Demise of Serbian Church Slavic; Xenrik Birnbaum: Mestnye i khronologicheskie raznovidnosti drevnerusskoi kul'tury i ikh vnutrennie i vneshnie sviazi; Tomas Ekman: Kharakter i vozniknovenie svobodnogo stikha v poezii slavian; Michael S. Flier: The Origin of the Desinence ovo in Russian; Kenneth E. Harper: Under the Influence of Oblomov; Peter Hodgson: More on the Matter of Skaz: The Formalist Model; Emily Klenin: Verbs of Motion Prefixed in u- in Old and Modern Russian; Michael Shapiro: Journey to the Metonymic Pole: The Structure of Pushkin's `Little Tragedies'; Alan Timberlake: Compensatory Lengthening in Slavic: 1: Conditions and Dialect Geography; Dean S. Worth: Syntactic Paradigms and the Problem of Mood in Russian.

"It is a nice tribute to the 1983 Congress from one of the leading centres of excellence in Slavistics." (ISS)