It may be stated without fear of contradiction that Professor Charles E. Townsend of Princeton University has been the most influential writer on Russian and Slavic grammar in the United States. Every graduate student devours his Russian Word-Formation, and returns to it over and over through his or her academic career. Many Slavists have studied Czech or Common Slavic from his books; and still others have studied or taught Russian from his textbooks. This volume in his honor features articles by his colleagues and former students devoted to four vital areas enriched by Charles TownsendÕs own scholarship and teaching: Language Function; Language Form: Phonology; Language Form: Morphology & Syntax; and Language in Context.

CONTENTS

Charles E. Townsend: An Appreciation;
Form, Function, and Context: A Quest to Reveal the Systems of Language; Edna Andrews: Russian Derivational Morphology and Shifting Reference; Catherine V. Chvany: On Mnemonics, Word-Nests, and Etymologies; Laura A. Janda: Cases in Collision, Cases in Collusion: The Semantic Space of Case in Czech and Russian; Susan C. Kresin: Demonstratives, Definite Articles and Clines of Grammaticalization: Evidence from Russian and Spoken Czech; Christina Y. Bethin: Czech Stress in the Context of West Slavic; Ronald F. Feldstein: On the Classification of Ukrainian Nominal Stress Paradigms; Frank Y. Gladney: On Length and Accent in Czech Nouns; Borjana Vel‹eva and Ernest Scatton: Цалчбкама сц е целубка: A Problem in Bulgarian Historical Dialectology; Dean S. Worth: Microphilology and Textology: the Monomax Section of the Boris and Gleb Skazanie; Leonard H. Babby: Bare Infinitives, Predicate Adjectives, and Control in Russian; Marjorie McShane: Out of the Box; Biljana Sljivic-Simsic: Verbal Stems in -‹a and -ja in the Contemporary Serbian Language; Cynthia M. Vakareliyska: Na-Drop Revisited: Omission of the Dative Marker in Bulgarian Dative Object Doubling Constructions; Eva Eckert: Language Variation, Contact and Shift in Tombstone Inscriptions; Masako U. Fidler: Relational Features in Political Language: A Comparison of Speeches by Havel, Clinton and Mori; Emily Klenin: Russian Word Formation and the Heron; JiÞ’ Kraus: Orality/Literacy Contrast in the Development of Language Description; Mark R. Lauersdorf: Slovak Standard Language Development in the 15thÐ18th Centuries: A Diglossia Approach; Michael K. Launer: Innovative Nominal and Adjectival Word-Formation Models in Technical Russian; Peter Rehder: On the (Socio)Linguistic Status of the Bosnian Language Today; Petr Sgall: Spoken Czech Revisited.