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THE SLAVIC LANGUAGES TheSlavicgroupoflanguages–thefourthlargest Indo-Europeansub- group–isoneofthemajorlanguagefamiliesofthemodernworld.With 297millionspeakers,Slaviccomprises13languagessplitintothreegroups: SouthSlavic,whichincludesBosnian,SerbianandCroatian;EastSlavic, whichincludesRussianandUkrainian;andWestSlavic,whichincludes Polish,CzechandSlovak.Thisbook,writtenbytwoleadingscholarsin Slaviclinguistics,presentsasurveyofallaspectsofthelinguisticstructure of the Slavic languages, considering in particular those languages that enjoyofficialstatus.Aswellascoveringthecentralissuesofphonology, morphology,syntax,word-formation,lexicologyandtypology,theauthors discussSlavicdialects,sociolinguisticissuesandthesocio-historicalevolu- tionoftheSlaviclanguages. Accessiblywrittenandcomprehensiveinitscoverage,thisbookwillbe welcomed by scholars and students of Slavic languages, as well as by linguistsacrossthemanybranchesofthediscipline. ROLAND SUSSEX is Professor of Applied Language Studies at the University of Queensland, and formerly Professor of Russian at the University of Melbourne. He has taught a wide variety of courses in linguisticsandappliedlanguagestudies,includingthelinguisticdescrip- tionoftheSlaviclanguages.HehaspreviouslypublishedABibliography ofComputer-AidedLanguageLearning(withDavidBradleyandGraham Scott,1986),andComputers,LanguageLearningandLanguageTeaching (with Khurshid Ahmad, Margaret Rogers and Greville Corbett, CambridgeUniversityPress,1985). PAUL CUBBERLEY was Senior Research Fellow in Linguistics at the University of Melbourne until 2001, and was previously Head of Russian there. Hehas also taught Czech, Polish, Old Church Slavonic, comparativeSlavoniclinguisticsandthehistoryoftheRussianlanguage. HispreviouspublicationsincludeTheSuprasegmentalFeaturesinSlavonic Phonetic Typology (1980), and most recently Russian: a Linguistic Introduction(CambridgeUniversityPress,2002). CAMBRIDGE LANGUAGE SURVEYS Generaleditors P.Austin(UniversityofLondon) J.Bresnan(StanfordUniversity) B.Comrie(MaxPlanckInstituteforEvolutionaryAnthropology,Leipzig) S.Crain(UniversityofMaryland) W.Dressler(UniversityofVienna) C.Ewen(UniversityofLeiden) R.Lass(UniversityofCapeTown) D.Lightfoot(UniversityofMaryland) K.Rice(UniversityofToronto) I.Roberts(UniversityofCambridge) S.Romaine(UniversityofOxford) N.V.Smith(UniversityCollege,London) This series offers general accounts of the major language families of the world,withvolumesorganizedeitheronapurelygeneticbasisorona geographicalbasis,whicheveryieldsthemostconvenientandintelligible groupingineachcase.Eachvolumecomparesandcontraststhetypological featuresofthelanguagesitdealswith.Italsotreatstherelevantgenetic relationships,historicaldevelopmentandsociolinguisticissuesarisingfrom theirroleanduseintheworldtoday.Thebooksareintendedforlinguists fromundergraduatelevelupwards,butnospecialknowledgeofthe languagesunderconsiderationisassumed.Volumessuchasthoseon AustraliaandtheAmazonBasinarealsoofwiderrelevance,asthefutureof thelanguagesandtheirspeakersraisesimportantsocialandpoliticalissues. Volumesalreadypublishedinclude ChineseJerryNorman ThelanguagesofJapanMasayoshiShibatani PidginsandCreoles(VolumeI:Theoryandstructure;VolumeII: Referencesurvey)JohnA.Holm TheIndo-AryanlanguagesColinMasica TheCelticlanguageseditedbyDonaldMacAulay TheRomancelanguagesRebeccaPosner TheAmazonianlanguageseditedbyR.M.W.Dixonand AlexandraY.Aikhenvald ThelanguagesofNativeNorthAmericaMarianneMithun TheKoreanlanguageHo-HimSohn AustralianlanguagesR.M.W.Dixon TheDravidianlanguagesBhadrirajuKrishnamurti ThelanguagesoftheAndesWillemAdelaarwithPieterMuysken TheSlaviclanguagesRolandSussexandPaulCubberley THE SLAVIC LANGUAGES ROLAND SUSSEX PAUL CUBBERLEY    Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridge,UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521223157 ©RolandSussexandPaulCubberley2006 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisionof relevantcollectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplace withoutthewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublishedinprintformat 2006 - ---- eBook (NetLibrary) - --- eBook (NetLibrary) - ---- hardback - --- hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyofs forexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication,anddoesnot guaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. ForBogusiaandGladys MatthewandJoanna NadineandMichelle CONTENTS Preface xvii Acknowledgments xix 0 Introduction 1 0.1 Survey 1 0.2 TheSlaviclanguagesintheworld 1 0.3 Languages,variantsandnomenclature 2 0.3.1 SouthSlavic 4 0.3.2 EastSlavic 5 0.3.3 WestSlavic 6 0.4 Languages,politiesandspeakers 8 0.5 Geneticclassificationandtypology 9 0.6 ThelinguisticsofSlavic:empiricalandtheoretical characteristics 10 0.7 Organization 13 0.7.1 Transcriptionandtransliteration 15 0.7.2 Accentandstress 15 0.7.3 Structureoftheexamples 17 0.7.4 Abbreviations 17 0.8 Outline 17 1 Linguisticevolution,geneticaffiliationandclassification 19 1.1 TheSlavs:prehistory 19 1.2 SlavicinIndo-European 21 1.2.1 SlavicandBaltic 21 1.2.2 SlavicandotherIndo-European languagefamilies 24 1.3 Proto-Slavic 25 1.3.1 Phonology 26 1.3.2 Morphology 40 1.3.3 Syntax 41 1.4 Thesub-divisionofSlavic 42 1.5 SouthSlavic 43 1.5.1 Stage1featuresofSouthSlavic 43 ix

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