Current Studies in Slavic Linguistics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Abbreviations -- Impersonals and beyond in Slavic -- 1. Impersonal sentences: A problem of definition -- 2. The issue of subject -- 3. Evolution of impersonal sentences in Russian and across other Slavic languages -- 4. Impersonal and indefinite subject -- 5. Impersonal and related constructions -- 6. The role of lexis -- 6.1 Interaction between lexis and grammar -- 6.2 Analysis of lexical meaning -- Acknowledgements -- References -- SECTION I. Morphosyntax -- Binding and morphology revisited -- 1. The problem and its original solution -- 2. A conceptual challenge -- 3. Some Slavic data -- 3.1 Back to Russian -- 3.2 Polish -- 3.3 Czech -- 3.4 Bulgarian -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Possessor Raising and Slavic clitics -- 1. Possessor Raising and possessive shift -- 2. Possessivity: Semantics and syntax -- 3. PR and external Dative possessor -- 4. Slavic possessive clitics -- Conclusions -- References -- The Slavonic languages and the development of the antipassive marker -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Definition of the antipassive construction -- 3. Antipassive in accusative languages -- 4. Distribution of the antipassive construction -- 5. The antipassive construction in accusative languages -- 6. On dedicated markers -- 7. Polyfunctional antipassive marker in ergative languages -- 8. The antipassive marker in accusative languages -- 8.1 Polyfunctional antipassive marker in Slavonic languages -- 8.2 Dedicated antipassive marker in Nahuatl -- 8.3 The nature of the middle -- 9. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Clitic SE in Romance and Slavonic revisited -- 1. SE-Puzzles -- 2. Clearing the ground: SECL in Romance and Slavonic -- 2.1 The role of SECL -- 2.2 The nature of SECL.

2.2.1 How reflexive is the reflexive clitic? -- 2.2.2 Relevance of phi-features -- 2.3 Categorial Status of SECL -- 3. The role of SECL in the derivation of reflexives -- 3.1 First merging SECL in an argument position -- 3.2 The Analysis: Clitics and proxy-readings -- 3.3 First-merging SECL in a non-argument position -- 3.4 Discussion -- 4. Deriving se-passives -- 5. Summary and conclusion -- References -- SECTION II. Syntactical relations -- The lazy speaker and the fascination of emptiness -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A first overview -- 2.1 Referential ellipses -- 2.2 Referential zeroes -- 2.3 Verb omission -- 3. General assessment: Economy vs. implicitness -- 4. The impact on politeness management -- 5. A glimpse at history: Avvakum's Žizneopisanie -- 6. A first comparison to Polish and Czech -- 7. Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- References -- Is the Polish verb iść an auxiliary to be? -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Polish future tenses -- 1.2 Auxiliarization - a case of grammaticalization -- 2. How the motion verb iść is special -- 3. Evidence of ongoing auxiliarization -- 3.1 Pragmatic ambiguity in context -- 3.2 Semantic bleaching (desemanticization) -- 3.2.1 Releasing selection constraints -- 3.2.2 Loss of grammatical properties -- 4. Semantics of the auxiliarized iść -- 5. Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- References -- Towards evidentiality markers in Albanian and Macedonian bilingual political discourse -- References -- A strange variant of Russian čtoby-construction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Functions of čtoby -- 3. Tense in Russian complex clauses -- 4. Tripartite constructions -- 5. Semantic motivation of the past tense in the temporal clause -- 6. Other complementizers -- 7. By in the temporal clause -- 8. Conclusions and explanations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- References -- SECTION III. Impersonal constructions.

Impersonal constructions in Serbian -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 What is an impersonal construction? -- 1.2 Impersonal Constructions & Voice/Derivation -- 2. Impersonal constructions in Serbian -- 2.1 The dummy zero subject IC with lexical impersonals -- 2.2 The dummy zero subject IC with voices -- 2.3 The dummy zero subject IC with verbal derivations -- 3. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Interpretation and voice in Polish SIĘ and -NO/-TO constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two types of impersonal constructions -- 2.1 The SIĘ construction -- 2.2 The -NO/-TO construction. -- 2.3 Subjects in impersonal constructions -- 2.3.1 Availability of agent oriented adverbials -- 2.3.2 Control and binding -- 2.3.3 Nominative subjects and oblique phrases -- 3. Interpretation of the impersonal SIĘ and -NO/-TO constructions -- 4. Voice Phrase and generic subjects -- 4.1 Theoretical assumptions -- 4.3 Passivization in the SIĘ construction -- 4.4 Passivization in -NO/-TO construction -- 4.5 Generic subjects and VoiceP. -- 5. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Dative-infinitive constructions in Russian -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Dative-infinitive constructions -- 1.1 Model Dat + INFIPF -- 1.1.1 Model INFIPF +Dat -- 1.1.1.1 Model Dat+INFIPF . Dat + INFIPF means that 'after some doubts or ­deliberations the decision has been made that there will be S'. The verbs in this subgroup are also usually byt' 'to be' or occasionally another existential substitute. -- 1.1.1.2 Model INFIPF +Dat+NP. INFIPF +Dat+NP means 'I predict that S will be NP' or 'I predict that S will V (NP)'. -- 1.1.2 Model Dat + INFIPF -- 1.1.3 Model Dat + (NṔ +) INFIPF -- 1.2 Model Dat + INFPF -- 1.3 Model Dat + ne + INFIPF -- 1.4 Model Dat + ne + INFPF -- 1.5 Model ne +Dat + INFIPF -- 1.6 Model *ne + Dat + INFPF -- 1.7 Model Dat + li + INFIPF -- 1.8 Model Dat + li +INFPF.

1.9 Model Dat + li + ne + INFIPF -- 1.10 Model Dat + li + ne + INFPF -- 2. Dative-infinitive constructions in interrogative sentenses -- 2.1 Question (Dat) + INFIPF [петь?] -- 2.2 Question Dat + INFIPF [мне петь (, что ли)?] -- 2.3 Question Datkomu + INFIPF [кому петь?] -- 2.4 Question wh-+ Dat + INFIPF [как ему петь?] -- 2.5 Question (Dat) + INFPF [(мне) спеть?] -- 2.6 Question wh-+ (Dat) + INFPF [что (мне) спеть?] -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- On the nature of dative arguments in Russian constructions with "predicatives" -- 1. Outlining the problem -- 2. Data and methodology -- 3. Co-occurrence with the dative: An overview -- 4. Subtype холодно 'it is cold/X is cold' -- 5. Subtype грустно 'it is sad/X is sad' -- 6. Type приятно 'it is pleasant' -- 7. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Russian Adversity impersonals and split ergativity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Selection mechanisms of AI and their parallels with ergativity -- 2.1 De-emphasis of instigator -- 2.2 Tense and aspect constraints -- 2.3 Animacy restrictions -- 2.4 Adverbial restrictions -- 2.5 Word order and information structure -- 2.6 Impersonal morphology -- 3. Conclusion and further reasoning -- References -- SECTION IV. Lexical semantics -- Morphological and lexical aspect in Russian deverbal nominalizations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Morphological and Lexical aspect in deverbal nouns -- 3. Classification of deverbal nominalizations -- 4. Morphological and lexical aspect -- 4.1 The experiment: Dataset, subjects and procedure -- 4.2 Inter-annotator agreement results -- 4.3 Morphological aspect of base verb and nominal lexical denotation. -- 4.4 Verbal lexical class and denotation of the nominalization. -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Lexical synonymy within the semantic 'field POWER -- 1. Preliminary remarks -- 2. Революция 'revolution' vs. переворот 'coup'.

2.1 Lexicographic information -- 2.2 Analysis of present-day contexts -- 2.3 Distinctive features -- 2.4 Революция 'revolution' and переворот 'coup' in Pravda, 1917 -- 3. Мятеж 'revolt' vs. восстание 'uprising' -- 3.1 Lexicographic information -- 3.2 Analysis of present-day contexts -- 3.3 Distinctive features -- 3.4 Мятеж 'revolt' and восстание 'uprising' in Pravda, 1917 -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Collocations with nominal quantifiers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aggregate nouns -- 3. Nouns with quantificative semantics -- 4. Collocators' semantic contribution -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Polysemy patterns in Russian adjectives and adverbs -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methodology of analysis -- 3. The Database structure -- 4. The use of the Database: Examples of search queries -- 5. Conclusions and further research -- References -- Language index -- Name index -- Subject index.