Fwd: Books: Slavic Linguistics

[Loren A. Billings]

Dear SEELANGS colleagues:

The following are _two_ book announcements from the Linguist List.

LINGUIST List wrote:
> 
> LINGUIST List:  Vol-13-577. Fri Mar 1 2002. ISSN: 1068-4875.

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> Date:  Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:09:35 +0100
> From:  LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de (LINCOM EUROPA)
> Subject:  New books: Slavic linguistics: Macedonian
> 
> Macedonian
> 
> VICTOR A. FRIEDMAN
> University of Chicago
> 
> Macedonian is a member of the South Slavic group of the Slavic Branch
> of the Indo-European family. It is the first or secnd language of the
> approximately 2 million people in the Republic of Macedonia and is
> also spoken in neighboring Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, and the Federal
> Republic of Yugoslavia as well as by significant émigré communities in
> Eastern and Western Europe, North America and Australia. This
> monogrpah describes modern standard Macedonian as codified in the
> Republic of Macedonia, although a brief treatment of the dialectal
> situation is also provided. Due to the endangered and disputed status
> of Macedonian in neighboring countries, the sociolinguistic/
> geolingusitic section begins with a linguistic history of
> Macedonian. This is followed by sections on phonology, morphology,
> syntax, and a text. Standard Macedonian is characterized by
> antepenultimate stress that can cross word boundaries, a relatively
> simple nominal system, a complex verbal system, and fairly free word
> order. Situated at the heart of the Balkan linguistic league,
> Macedonian shows the effect of centuries of multilingual contact at
> all levels.
> 
> ISBN 3 89586 075 1.
> Languages of the World/Materials 117.
> 60pp. USD 32.50 / EUR 28.50 / £  19.90.
> 
> Ordering information for individuals: Please give us your creditcard
> no.  / expiry date. Prices in this information include shipment
> worldwide by airmail. A standing order for this series is available
> with special discounts offered to individual subscribers.
> 
> NEW: LINCOM electronic n.e.w.s.l.e.t.t.e.r. Monthly up-dates.
> Go to http://www.lincom-europa.com
> 
> A Students' and course discount of 40% is offered to the above title.
> 
> Free copies of LINCOM'S newsflashes 26 & 27 are now available from
> LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de.
> 
> LINCOM EUROPA, Freibadstr. 3, D-81543 Muenchen, Germany;
> FAX +49 89 62269404;
> http://www.lincom-europa.com
> LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de.
> 
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>  If you buy one of these books, please tell the publisher or author
>  that you saw it on LINGUIST.

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LINGUIST List wrote:
> 
> LINGUIST List:  Vol-13-578. Fri Mar 1 2002. ISSN: 1068-4875.

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> Date:  Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:29:56 +0100
> From:  LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de (LINCOM EUROPA)
> Subject:  New books: Slavic linguistics: THE RELATIVE CLAUSE IN SERBO-CROATIAN
> 
> Der Relativsatz im Serbokroatischen
> (THE RELATIVE CLAUSE IN SERBO-CROATIAN)
> SNJEZANA KORDIC
> University of Muenster
> 
> This comprehensive study of relative clauses in Serbo-Croatian begins
> with the selection and description of properties of such relative
> clauses as are most frequently realized in various languages,
> including Serbo-Croatian. These properties can therefore be considered
> to belong to typical representatives of the relative clauses. The
> author then analyses formal constituents of the antecedent which
> determine the realization of the relative clause as restrictive or
> non-restrictive.  The non-typical relative clauses (e.g. free
> relatives, extraposed relatives), the differentation of inflected from
> uninflected relativizer (used with personal pronouns), adverbial
> relativizers, and the replacement of the participle by the relative
> clause in Serbo-Croatian are also described in this study. The corpus
> composed of texts from the journalistic, bookish,
> administrative-legal, and scientific styles has shown that several
> interesting on-going changes can be perceived with regard to the most
> typical relative pronoun in Serbo-Croatian. One of them is the
> extension of the animate masculine into the inanimate (and
> increasingly into the neuter) of the pronun as a means of
> morphologically disambiguating the subject and object. The other
> change concerns the possessive genitive of the pronoun. The study is
> supplied with examples, charts, and an extensive
> bibliography. [written in German]
> 
> ISBN 3 89586 573 7.
> LINCOM Studies in Slavic Linguistics 10.
> 200 S. USD 80 / EUR 68 / £ 48.  (2nd printing)
> 
> Ordering information for individuals: Please give us your creditcard
> no.  / expiry date. Prices in this information include shipment
> worldwide by airmail. A standing order for this series is available
> with special discounts offered to individual subscribers.
> 
> NEW: LINCOM electronic n.e.w.s.l.e.t.t.e.r. Monthly up-dates.
> Go to http://www.lincom-europa.com
> 
> A Students' and course discount of 40% is offered to the above title.
> 
> Free copies of LINCOM'S newsflashes 26 & 27 are now available from
> LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de.
> 
> LINCOM EUROPA, Freibadstr. 3, D-81543 Muenchen, Germany;
> FAX +49 89 62269404;
> http://www.lincom-europa.com
> LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de.
> 
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> 
>  If you buy one of these books, please tell the publisher or author
>  that you saw it on LINGUIST.

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> LINGUIST List: Vol-13-578

-- 
Loren A. Billings, Ph.D.
Assistant professor of linguistics

Department of English Language,
     Literature and Linguistics
Providence University
200 Chung Chi Road
Shalu, Taichung County
Taiwan 43301 Republic of China

Primary e-mail address: <billings at pu.edu.tw>
Alternate e-mail address: <billings at onebox.com>

Telephone numbers: 
+886-4-2632-8001 ext. 2221 (my office)
+886-4-2632-8001 ext. 2021 (Department staff)

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