Borrowed Words of Non-Slavic and Slavic Origin in Sixteenth-Century Standard Slovenian

Clitics in Slavic

0. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 2 1. Some general thoughts on Slavic clitics ..................................................................................... 3 2. Second position clitics ..........................................................................................

Retroflex fricatives in Slavic languages

The present study explores the phonetic and phonological grounds on which postalveolar fricatives in Polish can be analysed as retroflex, and considers whether postalveolar fricatives in other Slavic languages are retroflex as well. Velarization and incompatibility with front vowels are introduced as articulatory criteria for retroflexion, based on cross-linguistic data. According to these crit...

Slavic Languages in Universal Dependencies

Universal Dependencies (UD) is a project that is developing crosslinguistically consistent treebank annotation for many languages, with the goal of facilitating multilingual parser development, cross-lingual learning and linguistic research from a language typology perspective. It is a merger and extension of several previous efforts aimed at finding unified approaches to parts of speech, morph...

Slavic languages: comparative morphosyntactic analysis

This paper discusses the results of a comparative study of distributional equivalences among adjectivals in four Slavic languages, namely, Rus-sian, Czech, Polish and Serbo-Croatian. A procedure for determining equivalence is defined, and is applied to the results of analyzing the adjectivals of each language with respect to gender, animateness, and case and number. A appropriate goal for prese...

Definiteness and Structure of NPs in Slavic