Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2018

Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2018 offers a selection of articles that were prepared on the basis of talks presented at the conference Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 13) or at the parallel Workshop on the Semantics of Noun Phrases which were held on December 5-7 2018 at the University of Göttingen. The volume covers a wide array of topics such as situation relativization with adverbial clauses (causation concession counterfactuality condition and purpose) clause-embedding by means of a correlate agreeing vs. transitive 'need' constructions clitic doubling affixation and aspect evidentiality and mirativity pragmatics coming with the particle li uniqueness definiteness maximal interpretation (exhaustivity) kinds and subkinds bare nominals multiple determination quantification demonstratives possessives complex measure nouns and the NP/DP parameter. The set of object languages comprises Russian Czech Polish Bulgarian Macedonian Serbo-Croatian and Torlak Serbian. The numerous topics addressed demonstrate the importance of Slavic linguistics. The original analyses prove that substantial progress has been made in major fields of research.