Selected Proceedings of the 14th Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society: In Honor of Peter Kosta (Potsdam Linguistic Investigations)

The volume is a collection of papers in diverse areas of Slavic linguistics, selected from the 14th annual meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society, held at the University of Potsdam on 11-13 September 2019. The volume is dedicated to Peter Kosta, longtime chair of Slavic linguistics at the Department of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Potsdam, in recognition of his enormous contributions to the field. Contents: Publications of Peter Kosta - Vrinda Subhalaxmi Chidambaram: __A Case of Parasitic Attrition: The disappearance of the degree morpheme__ -ьs __in Bulgarian and Macedonian superlative adjectives -__ Steven Franks: __Reflexive Typology, Movement, and the Structure of NP -__ Jadranka Gvozdanovic __'Have' + infinitive in Czech: A long multilingual history -__ Iliyana Krapova and Tomislav Sočanac: __Factivity in South Slavic languages: Complement and relative clauses__ - Alexander Letuchiy: __'Missed TAM' The lack of tense and mood marking in Russian argument conditionals - semantic and formal motivation -__ Franc Lanko Marusičand Rok Zaucer: __Investigation of Slovenian copular agreement__ - James Joshua Pennington: __Today's Grammaticalization Theory is Yesterday's Grammaticalization: The BCMS Future as An(other) Strike Against the Unidirectionality Hypothesis__ - Katrin Schlund: __On the origin of East Slavic Elemental Constructions/Adversity Impersonals. Evidence from town chronicles of Old Rus'__ - Luka Szucsich and Karolina Zuchewicz: __Incrementality and (non)clausal complementation in Slavic__ - Alan Timberlake: __String Syntax__ - Beata Trawiński: __Polish__ żeby __under Negation__ - Mladen Uhlik and Andreja Zele__Reflexive Possessive Pronouns in Slovene: A Contrastive Analysis with Russian - Vladislava__ Warditz: __Structural Variation in Heritage Russian in Germany: Language Usage or Language Change?__ - Jacek Witkoś __On Some Aspects of Agree, Move and Bind in the Nominal Domain__ - Ilse Zimmermann+ __On Pronouns Relating to Clauses__ The volume is a collection of papers in diverse areas of Slavic linguistics, selected from the 14th annual meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society, held at the University of Potsdam on 11-13 September 2019. The volume is dedicated to Peter Kosta, longtime chair of Slavic linguistics at the Department of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Potsdam, in recognition of his enormous contributions to the field. Contents: Publications of Peter Kosta - Vrinda Subhalaxmi Chidambaram: A Case of Parasitic Attrition: The disappearance of the degree morpheme -ьs in Bulgarian and Macedonian superlative adjectives - Steven Franks: Reflexive Typology, Movement, and the Structure of NP - Jadranka Gvozdanovic 'Have' + infinitive in Czech: A long multilingual history - Iliyana Krapova and Tomislav Sočanac: Factivity in South Slavic languages: Complement and relative clauses - Alexander Letuchiy: 'Missed TAM' The lack of tense and mood marking in Russian argument conditionals - semantic and formal motivation - Franc Lanko Marusič and Rok Zaucer: Investigation of Slovenian copular agreement - James Joshua Pennington: Today's Grammaticalization Theory is Yesterday's Grammaticalization: The BCMS Future as An(other) Strike Against the Unidirectionality Hypothesis - Katrin Schlund: On the origin of East Slavic Elemental Constructions/Adversity Impersonals. Evidence from town chronicles of Old Rus' - Luka Szucsich and Karolina Zuchewicz: Incrementality and (non)clausal complementation in Slavic - Alan Timberlake: String Syntax - Beata Trawiński: Polish żeby under Negation - Mladen Uhlik and Andreja Zele Reflexive Possessive Pronouns in Slovene: A Contrastive Analysis with Russian - Vladislava Warditz: Structural Variation in Heritage Russian in Germany: Language Usage or Language Change? - Jacek Witkoś On Some Aspects of Agree, Move and Bind in the Nominal Domain - Ilse Zimmermann+ On Pronouns Relating to Clauses Cover 1 Series Information 4 Copyright Information 6 Contents 9 List of Contributors 11 Introduction 15 Publications 21 A Case of Parasitic Attrition: The Disappearance of the Degree Morpheme -ьš in Bulgarian and Macedonian Superlative Adjectives (Vrinda Subhalaxmi Chidambaram) 41 Reflexive Typology, Movement, and the Structure of NP (Steven Franks) 57 ‘Have’ + Infinitive in Czech: A Long Multilingual History (Jadranka Gvozdanović) 81 Factivity in South Slavic Languages: Complement and Relative Clauses (Iliyana Krapova, Tomislav Sočanac) 93 ‘Missed TAM’: The Lack of Tense and Mood Marking in Russian Argument Conditionals – Semantic and Formal Motivation (Alexander Letuchiy) 117 Investigation of Slovenian Copular Agreement (Franc Lanko Marušič, Rok Žaucer) 143 Today’s Grammaticalization Theory is Yesterday’s Grammaticalization: The BCMS Future as an(other) Strike against the Unidirectionality Hypothesis (James Joshua Pennington) 173 On the Origin of East Slavic Elemental Constructions/Adversity Impersonals. Evidence from Town Chronicles of Old Rus’ (Katrin Schlund) 191 Incrementality and (Non)Clausal Complementation in Slavic (Luka Szucsich and Karolina Zuchewicz) 211 String Syntax (Alan Timberlake) 233 Polish żeby under Negation (Beata Trawiński) 249 Reflexive Possessive Pronouns in Slovene: A Contrastive Analysis with Russian (Mladen Uhlik, Andreja Žele) 279 Structural Variation in Heritage Russian in Germany: Language Usage or Language Change? (Vladislava Warditz) 307 On Some Aspects of Agree, Move and Bind in the Nominal Domain (Jacek Witkoś) 325 On Pronouns Relating to Clauses (Ilse Zimmermann) 349 Series index 373 The volume presents fifteen papers from diverse areas of Slavic linguistics, including syntax and semantics, both synchronic and diachronic.