In honor of the approaching 17th Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture in South Slavic Linguistics, this blog entry spotlights a new book about South Slavic linguistics that has recently been acquired by the East European and Slavic Collection of the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library (see below).

This year’s Naylor Memorial Lecture “Reimagining the Balkans and Widening the Bund: Does Moldova Belong?” by  Donald L. Dyer (University of Mississippi) will be held in the Campus Reading Room on the 11th Floor of the Thompson Library, The Ohio State University, April 11th at 3:30pm.

The title below was just received from Motoki Nomachi. Please note that Wayles Browne, author of the article on clitics in West and South Slavic languages, gave the 3rd Naylor Memorial Lecture, What Is a Standard Language Good For, and Who Gets to Have One?, in 2000.

Slavic and German in Contact: Studies from Areal and Contrastive Linguistics

Edited by Elżbieta Kaczmarska and Motoki Nomachi
Sapporo, Japan: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2014

Preface by Elżbieta Kaczmarska and Motoki Nomachi, 1

Chapter 1: Verbs and Their Constructions

“Wechselbeziehung zwischen Präfixen und Präpositionen bei slowenischen präfigierten Verben, ergänzt durch übersetzungen ins Deutsche,” by Andreja Žele and Eva Sicherl, 1

“On the Kashubian Past Tense Form jô bëł ‘I was’ from a Language Contact Perspective,” by Motkoi Nomachi, 27

“Burgenland-Croatian — First Signs of Language Decay,” by Sabine Pawischitz, 59

Chapter 2: Issues on Clitics

“Groups of Clitics in West and South Slavic Languages,” by Wayles Browne, 81

“Haplology of Reflexive Clitics in Czech,” by Alexandr Rosen, 97

Chapter 3: Lexical and Grammatical Changes

“Germanismen im Serbischen: von systemeigenen zu abweichenden morphosyntaktischen Eigenschaften,” by Milivoj Alanović, 117

“German Elements in the Silesian Ethnolect,” by Jolanta Tambor, 135

List of Contributors, 165