TOPICS IN SOUTH SLAVIC SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION THE CLAUSAL STRUCTURE OF SOUTH SLAVIC -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The 'Functional field' -- 2. The clitics -- 3. Clitic doubling and agreement -- 4. The FRONT field -- 4.1 The 'higher chamber'of FRONT -- 4.2 The 'lower chamber'of FRONT -- 5. The clause structure of the other South Slavic languages -- 6. This volume -- References -- VERB MOVEMENT AND ECONOMY LAST RESORT -- 1. Introduction* -- 2. Long Head Movement -- 3. Incorporation: the Polish case -- 4. Imperative V-movement -- 5. Summary and Conclusions -- References -- CONJUNCTION DOUBLING AND 'AVOID CONJUNCTION' PRINCIPLE* -- 1. Conjunction Doubling and the Structure for Coordination -- 2. "Both/ Either" Strategy -- 3. Conjunction Doubling and Adjectives -- 4. 'Economize with Conjunctions' (EWC) and Conjunction Repetition (CR) -- 5. "Economize with Conjunctions" (EWC) and Coordination of Likes -- 6. Theoretical status of EWC -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- ON THE CONTRAST RELATION OF THE BALKAN LANGUAGES IN COMPARISON TO RUSSIAN AND GERMAN* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical implications of the analysis -- 3. Types of adversative constructions -- 3.1 Type 1 -- 3.2 Type 2 -- 3.3 Type 3 -- 3.4 Type 4 -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- THE SYSTEM OF AUXILIARIES IN BULGARIAN -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The BE-auxiliaries S ǓM and BJAX -- 1.1 Distributional contrasts -- 1.2 Proposal -- 1.3 Morphological Evidence -- 1.4 Syntactic evidence: Aux-to-Comp movement -- 1.5 Summary of the section -- 2. The future marker ste -- 3. The case of stjax and imam -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- AGAINST LONG HEAD MOVEMENT' LEXICAL INSERTION AND THE BULGARIAN AUXILIARY 'BE'* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lexical Insertion in Generative Grammar.

3. The Bulgarian grammatical verb sum 'be' -- 4. Weaknesses in Alternative Analyses -- 4.1 'Relativized ' head movement -- 4.2 Feature checking in C° -- 4.3 Optionally weak/ strong features -- 5. A Phonological Insertion Analysis -- 5.1 Phonological Lexicalization -- 5.2 Optional insertion contexts -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- TENSE, ASPECT AND ASPECTUAL COMPOSITION -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Perfectivity and Imperfectivity in Slavic languages -- 3. Terminativity and Durativity in Germanic languages -- 4. Aspectual asymmetry -- 5. How terminative is perfectivity ? -- 6. The Perfective Prefix as an operator -- 7. INFL and PROG -- 8. The French Imparfait and Passé Simple -- 9. Habituality in Germanic languages -- 10. ASP andASP -- 11. Imperfectivization in Slavic languages -- 12. Perfectivity in Slavic languages -- 13. Problems with bare plural NPs -- 14. Conclusion -- References -- POSSESSORS IN THE BULGARIAN DP* -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The basic word order -- 1.1 The position of the na-DP -- 1.2 The position of the genitiv al adjective -- 1.3 The position of the possessive adjective -- 1.4 The position of the clitic -- 2. Possessivization hierarchy -- 2.1 One occurrence o f a possessor expression -- 2.2 Two occurrences of possessor expressions -- 2.3 Three occurrences of possessor expressions -- 2.4 Con clus ions -- 3. Nominalizations -- 3.1 Nominais derived from transitive verbs -- 3.2 Passive nouns -- 3.3 Psychological nouns -- 3.4 Event vs. Result Nominals -- 4. Fronting -- 5. Fronting with clitics -- 5.1 The data -- 5.2 Aproposal -- 5.3 Some counterexamples -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- VSJAKO NAČALO E TRUDNO TRAPS IN LESSON I IN THE SOUTH SLAVIC LANGUAGES -- 0. Beginnings -- 1. "Demonstrative + Copula" sentences -- 2. "Disqialified" subjects -- 3. Further points on demonstratives -- 4. Wh-words and -phrases -- further problems.

References -- ON CLITIC DISPLACEMENT -- 1. The Structure of the Clitic Sequence -- 1.1 Complementizer Clitic -- 1.2 Clitic Auxiliaries -- 1.3 Pronominal Clitics -- 1.4 Clitic Reflexives -- 1.5 An Interim Summary -- 2. Issues -- 2.1 Some Non-Finite Contexts -- 2.2 Paradigms and Feature Strength -- 2.3 The Question of Focus -- 2.4 A Diachronie Note -- References -- FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE DP IN BOSNIAN* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Indefinite and Definite Forms of Descriptive Adjectives -- 3. Nonpredicating adjectives -- 4. The Left Peripheral Position of the DP: Demonstratives -- 5. Further functional projections: Possessives and Numerals -- 5.1 Possessives -- 5.2 Numerals -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF LANGUAGES.