Comparative Slavic morphosyntax

Properties & phenomena
Case
Clitics
Agreement
Aspect
Voice & diathesis
Predication

SlaviCoLi

Slavic Computational Linguistics

Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Tania Avgustinova

Selected Topics in Slavic Linguistics


LSF: 124734 Online Class. Weekly contributions by all participants
06.11.
 		Slavic languages: Definition,
Origin, Map, History, Facts 		Guess the Slavic language - spoken audio samples;
 sound illustrations and comparisons
13.11.
 		Overview:
shared phenomena,
systematic differences,
typological relevance
 Timeline of language family formation;
Historic distribution of Slavic languages;
How Slavic sounds; All Slavic in one video;
Weather forecast in all Slavic languages
20.11.
 		Brecht & Levine 1986
 1st two-page critical essay due
27.11.
 		Kosta & Zimmerling 2011 2nd two-page critical essay due
04.12.
 		no class (LREC workshop) SFB 1102 - C4 - Intercomprehesion experiments
11.12.
 		Corbett 2010 3rd two-page critical essay due
18.12.
 		Janda 2004 (video) 4th two-page critical essay due
08.01
 		Babby 2006 5th two-page critical essay due
15.01
 		Clancy 2002 6th two-page critical essay due
22.01
 		UDs - Zeman 2015 (video) 7th.two-page critical essay due
29.01.
 		Portfolio submission
electronically & in print (15 p.)

Language profiles

B. Comrie & G. G. Corbett, Eds. (1993). The Slavonic Languages. Routledge Language Family Descriptions: Introduction
South-Slav(on)ic
 		East-Slav(on)ic
West-Slavi(on)c
Bulgarian
 		Russian
 		Czech
Macedonian
 		Belorussian
 		Slovak
Serbo-Croat
 		Ukrainian
 		Polish
Slovene

Readings

Babby, L. (2010). Voice and diathesis in Slavic. Workshop on Comparative Slavic Morphosyntax, Indiana University.

Brecht, R. D. and J. S. Levine, Eds. (1986). Case and Meaning. Case in Slavic. Columbus, Ohio, Slavica Publishers Inc.

Clancy, S. J. (2002). Semantic Maps for BE and HAVE in Slavic. Glossos (Spring 2001).

Corbett, G. G. (2010). Agreement in Slavic. Workshop on Comparative Slavic Morphosyntax, Indiana University.

Janda, L. A. (2004). A metaphor in search of a source domain: the categories of Slavic aspect. Cognitive Linguistics 15 (4): 471-527.

Kosta, P. and A. Zimmerling (2013). Slavic Clitic Systems in a Typological Perspective. The nominal structure in Slavic and beyond. 116: 441.

Zeman, D. (2015). Slavic Languages in Universal Dependencies. Natural Language Processing, Corpus Linguistics, E-learning  (proceedings of SLOVKO 2015): 151-163.

Language games

How to make a language.|