The alternations k~c, g~z, and x~s occurring before i in Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS) noun declension stem from the Second Palatalization of Velars, but are no longer phonologically conditioned. In ...the dative-locative singular of nouns with nominative in -a, they are favored or hindered by a combination of morphological criteria. In the dative-instrumental-locative plural of masculine nouns, they are almost exceptionless. In the same three cases of neuter nouns they occur more when the noun is directly after a preposition, less when other words intervene between the preposition and the noun, a phenomenon that has not previously been remarked in the literature. We exemplify it with the noun pazuho ‘armpit’.
An obituary for Catherine V. Chvany, a Slavic linguist and long-time Russian language teacher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who died in 2018, is presented. Among other things, she, ...further, helped to assemble and publish three Festschrifts: Anna Lisa Crone and Catherine V. Chvany. eds.. New Studies in Russian Language and Literature.
The so called rhyton from Danilo, an archaeological site near the coastal town of Sibenik in Dalmatia, Croatia, is a four-legged Neolithic vessel made of fired clay that according to the consensus of ...archaeological opinion was most likely a cult vessel used in rituals of unknown origin and content. "Danilo Culture" is the eponymous name bestowed on a culture flourishing in the period from about 5500-4500 BC at Danilo and at some neighbouring sites. This culture had great influence along the eastern Adriatic coast and its hinterland and produced a significant number of these vessels. Rhyta, which other Neolithic cultures also made, were dispersed throughout a vast area of southeast Europe, from Greece to the Alps. This book is an in-depth study of that mysterious, prehistoric archaeological artifact which, due to its antiquity, structure and symbolism, has become a kind of universal proto-matrix for all relevant mythological and spiritual structures of the Mediterranean zone of later, historic times.
Bulgarian-Macedonian relations have been strained at various periods due in part to an unwillingness on the part of Bulgarian authorities to recognize the existence of Macedonians as a separate group ...and Macedonian as a separate language. This article highlights the relationship between the two present-day languages of Bulgarian and Macedonian, both of which now exist as standard languages. Adapted from the source document.
This article has a twofold purpose: to introduce Burgenland Croatian (BC) to colleagues and readers of Balkanistica, partly through comparison with the more familiar standard Croatian of Croatia, and ...to show where BC data fit into ongoing discussions about rules and generalizations for clitics in Slavic languages. Adapted from the source document
The work under review, published as two independent titles, represents the German and Croatian versions of her University of Munster post-doctoral dissertation (Habilitationsschriff) and shares the ...virtues of her work on relative clauses, being empirically well supported and making reference to a variety of traditions in linguistics.
(Reprint of an article originally published in Contrastive Analysis of English and Serbo-Croatian/Kontrastivna analiza engleskog i hrvatskog ili srpskog jezika, vol 1, Zagreb: Instit of Linguistics, ...1975, 105-134.) As previous treatments of enclitics in grammars of Serbo-Croatian are argued to be either incomplete or wrong, five rules governing Serbo-Croatian enclitics are outlined for the benefit of English-speaking students with abundant examples of student errors & corrected forms. (1) All clitics within a clause must occur together as a clitic group &, (2) within the group, in a specific order: the question particle li, auxiliary verbs except for je 'is', dative pronouns, genitive & accusative pronouns, reflexive se, & je. (3) Clitics usually follow the first element of a clause & alternate between following the first word & the first phrase in certain circumstances. (4) Full forms replace clitics under conditions including emphasis, contrast, interrogative focus, & conjunction. (5) The negative ne combines with verbal enclitics to form independent words. References. J. Hitchcock
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