Studies in Formal Slavic Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics and Information Structure

The Editors: Gerhild Zybatow is professor of Slavic Linguistics at the Slavic Department at Leipzig University.Uwe Junghanns is professor of Slavic Linguistics at the Slavic Department at the University Göttingen.Denisa Lenertová and Petr Biskup hold research positions at the Slavic department at Leipzig University.

• Contents: Petr Biskup: Prefixes as Prepositions and Multiple Cases – Pavel Caha: Czech Syncretism and Blake’s Hierarchy Meet the Functional Sequence – Pavel Caha/Lucie Medová: Czech Adverbs as Case-marked Adjectives – Natalia Fitzgibbons: N-Words and Negative Heads in Russian – Ekaterina Pshehotskaya: Stems and Prefixes: Spray/Load Alternation in Russian – Anna Bondaruk: Constraints on Predicate Clefting in Polish – Željko Bošković: On Relativization Strategies and Resumptive Pronouns – Milja Curcin: Dissociating the Impersonal from the Passive in Serbian and Croatian – Marina Dyakonova: Russian Double Object Constructions Revisited – David Erschler: On Case Conflicts in Russian: An Optimality-Theoretic Approach – Jutta M. Hartmann/Nataša Milićević: Case Alternations in Serbian Existentials – Hakyung Jung: Ergativity in North Russian: The Structure of the be-Perfect with a Nominalized Verb – Uwe Junghanns/Denisa Lenertová: On the Status of na Marking Indirect Objects in Bulgarian – Katarzyna Miechowicz-Mathiasen: There is no Independent EPP in Slavic, there are only EPP-effects – Krzysztof Migdalski: On the Emergence of Second-Position Cliticization in Slavic – Alexander Podobryaev: «Postposition Stranding» and Related Phenomena in Russian – Luka Szucsich: Obviation and Feature Sharing in Subjunctive Clauses – Barbara Tomaszewicz: Subjunctive Mood in Polish – Jacek Witkoś: Movement, Case Transmission and Case Independence in Polish Control – Anton Zimmerling: Dative Subjects and Semi-Expletive Pronouns in Russian – Mojmír Dočekal: Only and Bound Variables in Czech – Elżbieta Hajnicz: Towards Extending Syntactic Valence Dictionary for Polish with Semantic Categories – Veran Stanojević/Tijana Ašić: Towards a Formal Semantics of Some Verbal Tenses in Serbian – Ewa Willim: On the Semantics and Syntax of (Prefixed) Verbs of Directed Motion in Polish – Vadim Kimmelman: On the Interpretation of èto in So-called èto-clefts – Radek Šimík: The Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics of the Focus Particle to in Czech – Šárka Zikánová/Miroslav Týnovský: Identification of Topic and Focus in Czech: Comparative Evaluation on Prague Dependency Treebank – Bistra Andreeva: Towards the Intonational Phonology of the Sofia Variety of Bulgarian – Morena Danieli/Beata Dobrzyńska/Alberto Pacciotti/Elena Cabrio: Prosodic Phrasing in a Polish Text-to-Speech System – Vera Gribanova: Phonological Evidence for a Distinction between Russian Prepositions and Prefixes – Ora Matushansky: On the Featural Composition of the Russian Back Yer – Tobias Scheer: Syllabic and Trapped Consonants in the Light of Branching Onsets and Licensing Scales.