Cover -- Contents -- Editors' Foreword -- References -- On the Czech Nuclear /r/ and /l/ (Aleš Bičan) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syllabicity of the liquids -- 3. Problematic items -- 4. Nuclearity -- 5. Analysis -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Clausal Subjects in Polish Predicational Clauses with Nominal Predicates (Anna Bondaruk) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Polish clausal subjects and their categorial status -- 3. The structure of Polish predicational clauses with the copula być 'to be' -- 4. Clausal subjects in Polish predicational clauses with nominal predicates - An analysis -- 4.1. Non-extraposed clausal subjects -- 4.2. Extraposed clausal subjects -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Condemned to Extinction: Molise Slavic 100 Years Ago and Now (Krzysztof E. Borowski) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The century of vast population decline -- 3. Revitalization efforts -- References -- English Spatial Prepositions over and above and their Polish Equivalents (Maria Brenda) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Word meaning and the question of synonymy -- 3. The semantic networks for over and above and their Polish equivalents -- 3.1. The primary senses for over and above -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Cased PRO: From GB to Minimalism and Back Again (Steven Franks) -- 1. PRO in Government and Binding versus PRO under minimalism -- 2. Cased PRO in Icelandic versus Slavic -- 3. An implementation of cased PRO -- 4. Problems with cased PRO -- 5. Getting by without cased PRO -- 6. Intermediate summary -- 7. Some remaining problems and speculations -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Agreement Strategies with Conjoined Subjects in Croatian (Steven Franks and Jana Willer-Gold) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Approaches to Conjoined Subject Agreement in South Slavic -- 3. Conjoined subject agreement in Croatian -- 3.1. No LDA and linear proximity -- 3.2. CCA and no split agreement.

3.3. &P has a valued set of φ-features. -- 3.4. Structures and meanings. -- 4. Our proposals -- 4.1. Two types of proximity and two structures -- 4.2. &P agreement and feature unification -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Gender and Analogical Extension: From Animacy to Borrowings in Polish (Zuzanna Fuchs) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Experiment 1 -- 3.1. Participants -- 3.2. Stimuli -- 3.3. Design -- 3.4. Results -- 3.5. Discussion -- 3.5.1. Gender -- 3.5.2. Animacy -- 4. Experiment 2 -- 4.1. Participants -- 4.2. Stimuli -- 4.3. Design -- 4.4. Results -- 4.5. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Differences in Encoding Motion in English and Polish: Difficulties in Translating Motion between these Two Languages (Edward Gillian) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Classification of language - lexicalisation of motion -- 2. English lexicalisation of motion -- 3. Polish lexicalisation of motion -- 4. Research into translation of English sentences lexicalising motion into Polish -- 5. Rationales for the current research into the lexicalisation of motion in Polish -- 6. Difficulties in translation and translation strategies employed -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Dative-Infinitive БЫ Constructions in Russian. Taxonomy and Semantics (Alina Israeli) -- 1. Introduction -- 16. Conclusion -- References -- A Rare Type of Reflexive Use in Slavonic Languages (Katarzyna Janic) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reflexive reciprocal polysemy -- 3. Levels of analysis of the reflexive marker -- 4. Diachrony of the reflexive marker -- 5. The antipassive in ergavity -- 6. The antipassive in Slavonic languages -- Abbreviations -- References -- A Comparison of Croatian Syllabic [r] and Polish Obstruentised [r] (Sylwester Jaworski) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Polish [r] -- 3. Syllabic rhotic of Croatian -- 4. The aim of the study -- 4.1. Subjects and procedure.

4.2. Results -- 4.2.1. The obstruentised rhotic of Polish -- 4.2.2. The syllabic rhotic of Croatian -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- The Structure of the Speech Act of Complimenting Viewed from a Pragmalinguistic Perspective (Ewa Komorowska) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An attempt to define the speech act of complimenting -- 2.1. The expression of the speech act of complimenting through a performative verb -- 3. The structure of the speech act of complimenting -- 3.1. Self-complimenting -- 3.1.1. Self-complimenting by expressing the speech act directly -- 3.1.2. Self-complimenting of performed by quoting other people's opinions about the Speaker -- 3.2. Complimenting the interlocutor -- 3.2.1. The Speaker compliments the Addressee directly -- 3.2.2. The Speaker compliments the Addressee through an opinion of the other person -- 3.2.3. The Speaker compliments the Addressee through the Addressee's words -- 3.3. Complimenting others -- 3.3.1. The Speaker, when speaking to the Addressee, compliments T in a direct way -- 3.3.2. The Speaker, when speaking to the Addressee, compliments T through a comparison with N -- 3.3.3. The Speaker, when speaking to the Addressee, compliments T and the feedback is received by the Addressee, thus, N compliments simultaneously O and T -- 3.3.4. The Speaker, when speaking to the Addressee, compliments T and the feedback is directed to O or to O and T simultaneously -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Inner Islands and Negation: The Case of Which-Clauses and As-clauses Revisited (Peter Kosta and Diego Gabriel Krivochen) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Puzzle -- 3. Towards a Logic-Syntactic solution -- 4. Extension of the Analysis: The Function of Endophoric Deictic Elements -- 5. Negative vs. positive polarity and Islands -- 6. Conclusion and further perspectives -- References.

Nationality in Polish and Russian Advertising Slogans (Krzanowska Agnieszka) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Determination of nationality -- 2.1. Direct method of determination of the receiver's and the sender's nationalities -- 2.2. Indirect method of determining the receiver's and the sender's nationalities -- 2.2.1. The sender and the receiver are of the same nationality -- 2.2.2. The sender and the receiver are of different nationalities -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- The Emotionality of Interpersonal Communication and the Translation of the Verbs of Speech (Sylvia Liseling-Nilsson) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Study -- 2.1. Translation of verbs of speech -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- Dialect Leveling and Local Identity in Slovenia (Grant H. Lundberg) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dialect and Identity -- 3. Survey -- 3.1. Dialect Usage -- 3.2. Influence of Other Varieties of Slovene -- References -- Polish Anticausative Morpho-Syntax: A Case for a Root-Based Model against Lexicalist Reflexivization (Anna Malicka-Kleparska) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lexicalist derivation of anticausatives with reflexive marking -- 3. The system of Polish anticausatives -- 4. Uniform behaviour of Polish anticausatives -- 5. Root based anticausatives -- References -- Exhaustive to in Polish: A Minimalist Account (Ewelina Mokrosz) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Exhaustive identification -- 3. Syntactic account of sentences with a CI to -- 3.1. Syntax of exhaustive constructions by Tajsner (2008) -- 3.2. Clause initial to as an exhaustive identification operator -- 3.2.1. Exhaustive identification operator by Horvath (2010) -- 3.2.2. An exhaustive relation -- 3.2.3. Evidence in favour of a separate EI feature in Polish -- 3.2.4. Necessary modifications of Horvath's (2010) analysis -- 4. Conclusion -- References.

Language Practices of Pride and Profit: the Tourist Landscape of L'viv, Ukraine (Alla Nedashkivska) -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Historical Note about L'viv -- 2. Theoretical Background and Method -- 3. Analysis -- 3.1. Multilingualism of the L'viv Tourist Landscape -- 3.2. Local Dialect as Emblem of Authenticity -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Epistemic Indefinites in Slovak: Corpus Survey and the Haspelmath Map (Veronika Richtarcikova) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical Background -- 2.1. A short introduction to Haspelmath's implicational map -- 2.2. A short overview of the Slovak indefinite system -- 3. Corpus Survey -- 3.1. The Slovak National Corpus -- 3.2. Annotation Methodology -- 3.3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Sorting out-to and što: Bulgarian and Macedonian Relative Markers (Catherine Rudin) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Macedonian što in relative clauses -- 3. Bulgarian -to in relative clauses -- 4. -to and što in other constructions -- 5. Analysis: what is što? -- 6. Analysis: what is -to? -- 6.1. The definiteness marker analysis -- 6.2. The Complementizer Analysis -- 6.3. Other Analyses -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- A Corpus-Based Study of Human Impersonal Constructions in Russian (Olga Rudolf) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Human impersonal strategies -- 2.1. The scope of the study -- 2.2. Parameters describing the readings of the human referent and the contexts of their occurrence -- 3. Data, methods of their analysis, results -- 3.1. Data -- 3.2. Statistical analysis of the data -- 3.3. Discussion of the results -- 4. Conclusions and prospects for future research -- References -- Case-Ending Processing in Initial Polish L2: The Role of Frequency, Word Order and Lexical Transparency (Jacopo Saturno) -- 1. Introduction: The Villa project -- 2. Data Collection: The Sentence Imitation Test.

3. Hypotheses.