The Slavic Languages

660 Pages·2006·3.19 MB·

by  Roland Sussex, Paul Cubberley

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
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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
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