Dutch contributions to the Fifteenth International Congress of Slavists : : Minsk August 20-27, 2013 linguistics / / edited by Egbert Fortuin [and three others].

• Superior document: Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics ; Volume 40
• Author: International Congress of Slavists Minsk, Belarus)
• TeilnehmendeR: Fortuin, Egbert,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Slavic and general linguistics ; Volume 40.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (263 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume, Dutch Contributions to the Fifteenth International Congress of Slavists (Minsk, 2013) presents a comprehensive overview of current Slavic linguistic research in the Netherlands, and covers its various linguistic disciplines (both synchronic and diachronic linguistics, language acquisition, history of linguistics) and subdomains (phonology, semantics, syntax, pragmatics, text). The different chapters in this peer-reviewed volume show the strong data-oriented tradition of Dutch linguistics and focus on various topics: the use of imperative subjects in birchbark letters (Dekker), the existential construction in Russian (Fortuin), Jakovlev’s formula for designing an alphabet with an optimal number of graphemes (Van Helden), frequency effects on the acquisition of Polish and Russian nominal flexion paradigms (Janssen), Macedonian verbal aspect (Kamphuis), the concept of ‘communicatively heterogeneous texts’ in connection with three birchbark letters from medieval Rus’ (Schaeken), a philological analysis of the authorship of some Cyrillic manuscripts (Veder), a reconstruction of the evolution of the Slavic system of obstruents: the motivation of mergers and the rise of dialect differences (Vermeer), and a contrastive analysis of Russian delat’ and Dutch doen (Honselaar and Podgaevskaja). With a well-known cast of contributors, this reference work will be of interest to researchers in both Slavic and general linguistics.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- COMMUNICATIVE HETEROGENEITY IN NOVGOROD BIRCHBARK LETTERS: A CASE STUDY INTO THE USE OF IMPERATIVE SUBJECTS / Simeon Dekker -- THE EXISTENTIAL CONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIAN: A SEMANTIC-SYNTACTIC APPROACH / Egbert Fortuin -- JAKOVLEV’S MAGIC FORMULA AND THE LINOTYPE / Andries van Helden -- FREQUENCY EFFECTS ON THE ACQUISITION OF POLISH AND RUSSIAN GENDER MORPHOLOGY / Bibi Janssen -- MACEDONIAN VERBAL ASPECT: EAST OR WEST? / Jaap Kamphuis -- DON’T SHOOT THE MESSENGER: PART TWO PRAGMAPHILOLOGICAL NOTES ON BIRCHBARK LETTERS NOS. 497 AND 771 FROM NOVGOROD AND NO. 2 FROM ZVENYHOROD / Jos Schaeken -- RECODING: THE EIGHT HOMILIES ATTRIBUTED TO CYRIL OF TUROV / William R. Veder -- EARLY SLAVIC DIALECT DIFFERENCES INVOLVING THE CONSONANT SYSTEM / WILLEM Vermeer -- ΓЛAΓOЛbI DOEN И ДEЛATb: ƃPATbя-ƃЛИЗHEЦbI ИЛИ ДAЛbHИE POДCTBEHHИKИ? / Вим Хонселаар and Алла Пеетерс-Подгаевская.