Investigations into Formal Slavic Linguistics

The Editors: Peter Kosta is Professor of Westslavic Linguistics and Chair at the Slavic Department at Potsdam University. Joanna Blaszczak is Psychological and Technical Assistant of the Theory of Grammar (Syntax and Morphology) at the General Linguistics Department at Potsdam University. Jens Frasek is Assistant of Westslavic Linguistics at the Slavic Department at Potsdam University. Ljudmila Geist is Ph.D. student at the University in Berlin and employed as a research assistant in the DFG-sponsored project Semantic Interfaces: Copula-predicative constructions at the Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin. Marzena Zygis is research assistant at the Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin and involved in the project The phonological word. In 2001 the editors organized the Fourth European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL IV) in Potsdam. The FDSL-conferences take place biannually in Leipzig and Potsdam.

lt;i>Contents: Bozena Cetnarowska: On Pronominal Clusters in Polish - Malgorzata Cavar/Silke Hamann: Polish Velar and Coronal Palatalization - Its Perceptual Background - Ben Hermans: Why Yer Vocalization Overapplies in Russian; an OT-Account - Paul Law: A Prosodic Account for Clitic Placement in Serbo-Croatian - Veronika Makarova: Intonation Features in Categorization of Russian Sentence Type - Tobias Scheer: The Key to Czech Vowel Length: Templates - Sárka Simácková: Variability in the Realization of Czech Trilled r - Marzena ygis: The Role of Perception in Slavic Sibilant Systems - Marcela Adamíková: Sentential Negation and Focus in Slovak Adversative Constructions - Eva Hajicková: Information Structure and Syntactic Complexity - Uwe Junghanns: Fokussierungsstrategien in slavischen Sprachen - Petr Sgall: Slavistics and the History of Topic-Focus Studies - Andreas Späth: Slavic DPs and Their Contribution to Discourse Linking - Michael Betsch/Roland Meyer: Automatic Annotation of Russian Texts: Evaluation of Different Tagging Methods - Natalia Gagarina/Maria Voeikova/Sergej Gruzincev: New Version of Morphological Coding for Speech Production of Russian Children (in the Framework of CHILDES) - Marek Labuzek/Maciej Piasecki: Linguistically Annotated Data Sets for the Polish-English Machine Translation System - Agnieszka Mykowiecka/Malgorzata Marciniak/Adam Przepiórkowski/Anna Kupsc: An Implementation of a Generative Grammar of Polish - Goran Nenadic/Irena Spasic/Sophia Ananiadou: Educing Lexical Ambiguity in Serbo-Croatian by Using Genetic Algorithms - Karel Oliva: Linguistics-based PoS-tagging of Czech: Disambiguation of se as a Test Case - Vladimír Petkevic: Subject-Predicate Agreement and Automatic Morphological Disambiguation of the Czech National Corpus - Maciej Piasecki: Semantic and Syntactic Aspects of Reference and Quantification in Polish Noun Phrase - Adam Przepiórkowski/Marcin Wolinski: A Morphosyntactic Tagset for Polish - Joanna Rabiega-Wisniewska/Michal Rudolf: Towards a Bi-Modular Automatic Analyzer of Large Polish Corpora - Zygmunt Saloni/Marcin Wolinski: A Computerized Description of Polish Conjugation - Z.M. Shalyapina/E.G. Borisova/M.I. Kanovich/A.S. Panina/Y.S. Tarasova/O.A. Shternova: RUSSLAN: A System of Russian Language Generation - Marek Swidzinski/ Magdalena Derwojedowa/Michal Rudolf: A Computational Account of Multi-Word Numeral Phrases in Polish - Milena Kühnast: Processing Negation and Aspect in Bulgarian - Evidence from Normal and Agrammatic Sentence Comprehension - Klaus Abels: *[P clitic]! - Why? - Tania Avgustinova: Russian Infinitival Existential Constructions from an HPSG Perspective - Tania Avgustinova/Hans Uszkoreit: Reconsidering the Relations in Constructions with Non-Verbal Predicates - Leonard H. Babby: Dative Subjects and Nominative Objects: Infinitives in Russian - Joanna Blaszczak: Getting Rid of Covert Movement or Getting into Trouble? - Zeljko Boskovic: On Left Branch Extraction - Steven Franks: Case Features, Markedness, and Quantification - Peter Kosta: Adverbs and Negation in Czech - Svetlana Kurtes: Genus Verbi in Serbo-Croat: A Reanalysis of 'se-verbs' - Vita G. Markman: On the Syntax and Semantics of the Reflexive and Impersonal Passive -sja-Verbs in Russian: the Role of Aspect - Kunka Molle: The Way of Using Articles in Bulgarian Binominative Sentences - Petya Osenova: On Subject-Verb Agreement in Bulgarian (An HPSG-Based Account) - Alla Paslawska: Negative Polaritätselemente und ihre