Formalization of grammar in Slavic languages : contributions of the eighth international conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages-- FDSL VIII 2009 : University of Potsdam, December 2-5, 2009

This book assembles the contributions of the Eighth European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL VIII) which took place from 2nd to 5th December 2009 at the University of Potsdam. The concern was to bring together excellent experienced but also young scholars who work in the field of formal description of Slavic languages. Besides that two workshops on typology of Slavic languages and on the structure of DP/NP in Slavic were organized. I. Phonetics & Phonology Aleš Bičan: Structure of Syllables in Czech Małgorzata E. Ćavar: Merger of the Place Contrast in the Posterior Sibilants in Croatian Ondřej Šefčík: Features of Common Slavic Ablaut Alternation II. Machine Translation Natalia Klyueva, Petr Homola and Ondřej Bojar: Towards a Rule-Based Machine Translation System between Czech and Russian III. Semantics Zhanna Glushan: On Animacy and Unaccusativity in Russian Elena Gorishneva: Inductive vs. Non-Inductive Generics in Russian and Bulgarian Beata Trawiński: A Compositional Semantics for Comitative Constructions IV. Syntax Andrei Antonenko: Binding by Phases: Principle A in Russian Steven Franks: Dynamic Spell-Out as Interface Optimization Elena Gorishneva & Ilse Zimmermann: Wh-Words and the Indefinite Particle -to in Russian Hana Gruet-Skrabalova: Czech questions with two wh-words Gašper Ilc: Optionality of the Genitive (of Negation) in Slovene Katarzyna Janic: On development of antipassive function: what do Australian and Slavonic languages have in common? Slavica Kochovska: Dislocated Direct Objects in Macedonian Peter Kosta: Causatives and Anti-Causatives, Unaccusatives and Unergatives: Or how big is the contribution of the lexicon to syntax? Alexander Letuchiy: Reciprocity and similar meanings in Slavic languages and SAE Nina Radkevich: PPs of Different Sizes Tanya Scott: Multiple Sluicing: A purely syntactic account Joanna Śmiecińska: Wh-scope marking strategies in Polish Natasha Todorovich: How many da(s) are there in Serbian? Hannu Tommola: On Slavic and Finno-Ugric vs. Standard Average European Rok Žaucer: Some multiply prefixed ‘verbs’ as covert serial verb construction