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Academic bookstores carrying books on Slavic linguistics

Glówna Ksiegarnia Naukowa im. B. Prusa (Poland). 00-068 Warszawa, ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 7. Tel.: (22) 826-18-35

Knjiga trgovina d.o.o. (Croatia), Donji Precac 19, HR-10000 Zagreb. Tel: +385 (0)1 2421 754

Knjizara (MC Most) (Serbia and Montenegro). Terazije 12/2.sprat, 11000 Beograd. Telefoni +381 (0)64 28 27 387, +381 (0)11 68 51 55, +381 (0)11 68 51 77.

Ksiegarnia Uniwersytetu Mikolaja Kopernika w Toruniu (Poland). 87-100 Toruń, ul. Reja 25. Tel./fax (0 56) 611-42-98, tel. (0 56) 611-42-86.

Michigan Slavic Publications (USA). 3040 Modern Languages Building, University of Michigan, 812 East Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1275, michsp@umich.edu, tel: 734.763.4496, Fax:  734.647.2127.

Slavica Publishers (USA). 2611 E. Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN. 47408-2603. Phone: 812-856-4186. Orders: 877-SLAVICA.

Sofia University Bookshop (Bulgaria). E-mail.

Victor Kamkin Russian Books and Records(USA). 220 Girard Street, Gaithersburg, MD 20877. Phone: (301) 990-4010

Collections and Anthologies

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Conferences, future and past (in reverse chronological order)

Notices of conferences are retained on this website after they have been held as a) useful sources of information about resources and areas of expertise, and b) an informal record of activities in the field. We encourage institutions for this reason not to take down corresponding websites, if at all. On this page we list conferences held since the beginning of 2008. Conferences held earlier are listed here.

The Eighth Meeting of the Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL-VIII) will be held December 2-5, 2009 at the University of Potsdam, Germany. FDSL is a biannual European Conference that investigates all linguistic levels and their interfaces. Abstracts may be on any aspect of formal Slavic linguistics including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Comparative, diachronical and typological research topics are strongly encouraged. Special sessions and workshops on these fields are scheduled.

The deadline for abstract submissions is May 1, 2009. Notices of acceptance will be issued by June 30, 2009. Details available at conference website.

The 7th Macedonian-North American Conference on Macedonian Studies will be hosted by the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah from November 5-8, 2009. An abstract of one page of text plus at most one extra page for data and references will be due for competitive review by April 15, 2009. Results of the abstract review will be announced by April 30, 2009. Please send abstracts to Jane Hacking at: j.hacking@utah.edu Electronic submissions are preferred, but if necessary, a hard copy may be sent to: Jane Hacking Department of Languages & Literature, LNCO 1400 255 S Central Campus Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84112 For further information about this conference, please contact Jane Hacking.

The Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA) will hold its 2009 Conference (SCLC-2009) on  October 15-17, 2009 in Prague, Czech Republic, in conjunction with the Department of Czech Language and Theory of Communication of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Papers concerning all aspects of Slavic languages (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistic and broadly cultural aspects) from the perspective of cognitive linguistics are welcome. Abstracts may be submitted up until the deadline of March 31, 2009 to Steven Clancy. Abstracts should be approximately 500 words, but strict word limits are not required. Notification of acceptance will be provided by May 31, 2009.Full information about the conference may be found at the official conference website. There will also be a one-day pre-conference workshop on corpus linguistics, experimental methods and statistical analysis to take place on October 15, 2009 before the start of the main SCLC-2009 conference. More details forthcoming at the SCLA website.

The Sarajevo Linguistic Gathering 4 & SinFonIJA II will take place on September 24-26, 2009 in Sarajevo. The theme of SLG meetings is general and (south) Slavic linguistics. The theme of the Sinfonija conference is also wide and spans all areas of (formal) linguisitcs. The primary goal of Sinfonija is to connect people on the area of ex Yugoslavia and ex Austria-Hungary, but it is open to participants from everywhere. Invited speakers:

One-page abstracts in English should be sent as pdf files to cml.ifb@gmail.com with the subject ''SLG4-Sinfonija2''. Notifications of acceptance: late June 2009. Further details available at website.

The Fourth Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society will be held 3-6 September 2009 in the beautiful Adriatic city of Zadar, Croatia, on the campus of the University of Zadar, with cosponsorship by the Insitute of Croatian Language and Linguistics in Zagreb.

The Second International Balto-Slavonic Natural Language Processing Workshop (BSNLP-2) will be held in Cracow, Poland, 15 June 2009. This year BSNLP is co-located with the IIS 2009 (Intelligent Information Systems) conference ( http://iis.ipipan.waw.pl/ ). Papers should be submitted by 15 March 2009. Details available on the workshop website.

The 2nd Vienna Workshop on Affix Order: Affix Order in Slavic and Languages with Similar Morphology, in honor of Professor Wolfgang Dressler, will be held at the University of Vienna on 5-6 June 2009. The workshop's goals are:

Keynote talks will be given by Harald Baayen (Alberta) and Keren Rice (Toronto). For inquiries about registration and accommodation please contact Kim Winternitz at kim@5uper.net . See the conference website. Registration is free, but everyone who wishes to attend must register by 15 May 2009.

The conference Bulgarian Language and Literature in Slavic and Non-Slavic contexts will take place at the Department of Slavonic Studies of the University of Szeged (Hungary) on May 28- 29, 2009. Applications and summaries to be sent by 15 February 2009 deadline; accepted applicants will be informed by 10 March 2009. Please direct any queries to the conference coordinator, Monika Farkas Barathi.

The venerable Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics conference series announces its 18th iteration (FASL-18), to be held on May 15-17, 2009 at Cornell University. Invited speakers are:

Abstracts are invited for talks or posters on topics dealing with formal Slavic linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Conference website contains details on abstract submissions. Deadline for receipt of abstracts is January 10, 2009. Organizers: Draga Zec (dz17@cornell.edu) and Wayles Browne (ewb2@cornell.edu).

The Slavonic Department of the University of Regensburg and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on the Ancient Languages and the Early Stages of Modern Languages of the Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic in cooperation with The Department for Serbian language and linguistics (University of Novi Sad) organized an international workshop 'Diachronic Syntax in Slavonic languages: Gradual changes in focus', 5-6 December 2008 in Regensburg, Germany. Conference website.

The Sixth International Conference Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan Languages (FASSBL-6) was held in in Dubrovnik, 25-28 September 2008. Website.

The University of Bielsko-Biala (Institute of English in cooperation with Institute of General Linguistics and Methodology of Humanistic Research) organized an international conference entitled `Semantics without borders: Morphemes, words, constructions, texts', Sept. 11-13, 2008. Contacts: dr Krzysztof Polok sworntran@interia.pl, mgr Sławomir Konkol stawek@yahoo.com, dr Agnieszka Będkowska-Kopczyk kopczyk@poczta.onet.pl, dr Ewa Michalska emichalska@ath.bielsko.pl.

The University of Bielsko-Biala, Institute of General Linguistics and Methodology of Humanities Research, hosted an international conference entitled `Semantic conceptions of case in the Slavic languages'. Website.

The Third International "Perspectives on Slavistics" Conference took place in Hamburg, Germany, on August 28-31, 2008. Website.

The Third Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society took place at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 10–12, 2008.  Website.

The Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA) held the SCLC-2008 annual conference on May 29, 2008, in conjunction with the Cognitive and Functional Perspectives on Dynamic Tendencies in Languages conference of the Estonian Cognitive Linguistics Association (ECLA) in Tartu, Estonia (May 29-June 1, 2008). ECLA website.

The Yale Meeting of the 17th annual conference Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL 17) was held 9-11 May, 2008. In addition to the Main Session, there was a Special Session on Phonetics of the Slavic languages. Website.

The XVI Balkan and South Slavic Conference was held at the Banff Park Lodge (Banff, Canada) on 1-4 May 2008. Conference website.

The Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association held an international conference at Łódź University, Poland, 24-26 April 2008. Information: Prof dr hab. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, University of Lodz, by e-mail: akwiat@uni.lodz.pl, kosecki@uni.lodz.pl; blt@uni.lodz.pl.

The 6th meeting of Generative Linguistics in Poland (GLiP-6) took place 5-6 April 2008 at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Invited speakers:

There were both (morpho)syntactico-semantic and (morpho)phonological tracks. Conference website.

A Masterclass in Corpus Methods in Linguistics and Language Pedagogy (CMLLP-2008), using corpus data in linguistic research and preparation of language pedagogical materials, was held at the University of Chicago, March 26-30, 2008. Visit the website for more information.

An international workshop and round table entitled Slovo: Towards a Digital Library of South Slavic Manuscripts was held in Sofia, 21–26 February 2008. More information.

A workshop entitled Affix Ordering in Typologically Different Languages: Approaches, Problems, and Perspectives' was held during the 13th International Morphology Meeting, February 3-6 2008, Vienna, Austria (IMM13 website). Workshop website.

Conferences held earlier than 2008 are listed here.

Corpora and Data Bases

BULGARIAN

The Bulgarian National Corpus is available here. More information is available here. [The second link is what I was given, but it didn't work (yet) when I checked it (4/30/09). If interested you might try http://www.ibl.bas.bg/].

CROATIAN

An initial version of the Croatian Language Corpus is available in both Croatian (http://riznica.ihjj.hr/) and English (http://riznica.ihjj.hr/en/) versions.

The Croatian Language Technologies Portal (www.hnk.ffzg.hr/jthj/) includes links to the Croatian Morphological Lexicon and the Croatian National Corpus (HNK v. 2.0). The corpus is available for public and free access using a free client program. For more information, contact Marko Tadić.

CZECH

The Czech National Corpus Institute (http://ucnk.ff.cuni.cz) is a 100-million word searchable, automatically-tagged, representative corpus of contemporary Czech; there are subcorpora for spoken Czech and various historical periods.

MACEDONIAN

The Digital Archive of the Macedonian Language (http://damj.manu.edu.mk), a project of the Research Center for Areal Linguistics, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, is a growing collection of digitized, searchable texts in Modern Macedonian from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is completely free for anyone who would like to use, search through, and/or download the materials. The Project Coordinator is  Prof. Marjan Markovik.

MIXED

Balkan morpho-syntactic similarities. The current project focuses on how common Balkan features in the domain of nominal expressions have evolved and are displayed in two closely related languages, Macedonian and Bulgarian, in search of the factors that have influenced the current structure of the respective noun phrases. Site includes papers, databases, and corpora. http://www.hf.ntnu.no/hf/adm/forskning/prosjekter/balkansim/

Project on the Bibliography of Contemporary Research on Tense, Aspect, Aktionsart, and Related Areas (University of Toronto). The web pages have at long last been revised and updated, and these new pages will be posted in the very near future at www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~binnick/TENSE/.

OLD CHURCH SLAVONIC

Codex Marianus only. http://lib.orthodox.org/ru/marianus

The Corpus Cyrillo-Methodianum Helsingiense (CCMH) is an electronic corpus of the most important Old Church Slavonic (OCS) texts. It is being collected at the Slavonic and Baltic Department of the University of Helsinki. The texts are encoded in 7-bit ASCII in order to ensure maximum portability. http://www.slav.helsinki.fi/ccmh

TITUS (= Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien) http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/framee.htm?/texte/texte2.htm#aksl

POLISH

The Polish and English Language Corpora for Research Applications (PELCRA) is the result of a coperative effort between University of Łódź and Lancaster University (UK): http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~pezik/korpus/index.php. More information.

Polish Academy of Sciences Corpus of Polish: http://korpus.pl/ and http://corpus.ijp-pan.krakow.pl/en/. The 2nd edition of the IPI PAN Corpus of Polish, developed at the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, is to the best of our knowledge the largest searchable morphosyntactically annotated corpus of Polish available to the public. The whole corpus consists of over 250 million segments (about 200 million orthographic words) and is not balanced, but a balanced sample of over 30 million segments is also available. These corpora can be directly searched at the above address (see query syntax cheatsheet at http://korpus.pl/en/cheatsheet/index.html) or downloaded in binary form to be used with a stand-alone version of the corpus search engine Poliqarp. The latter option offers much greater functionality.

Polish Scientific Publishers (PWN) corpus of the Polish language: http://korpus.pwn.pl/szukaj.php.

RUSSIAN

Computer Fund of the Russian Language: http://www.artint.ru/cfrl/cfrl_frs.htm

Conversation Analysis in Russian: http://www.russianca.org/. Maintained by Galina Bolden (UCLA).

The Helsinki Annotated Corpus of Russian Texts (HANCO) has been running since 2001 in the Department of Slavonic and Baltic Languages and Literatures at the University of Helsinki. It is envisaged that the corpus will include morphological, syntactic, and functional information about approximately 100,000 running words, extracted from a modern Russian magazine and representing the modern Russian language. The Head of the project is Professor Arto Mustajoki. http://www.slav.helsinki.fi/hanco/index_en.html

The Large Corpus of the Russian Language: http://bokrcorpora.narod.ru/

The Lexicograph project, devoted to Russian verb semantics, has a website at www.lexicograph.ru. Here you can learn about the history of the project and about the principles of verb meaning explication in the system, as well as find information about the participants of the project and their publications.

The Maksim Moshkov Library (http://www.lib.ru/) is a site with a wide selection of belletristic texts. Use your own search engine.

National Corpus of the Russian Language : http://www.ruscorpora.ru or http://corpora.yandex.ru/.

The Russian Derivational Morphology Database (University of Washington):http://courses.washington.edu/rmdb/

Tiutcheviana offers a beta version of a web search of the philological resources of Runet: http://ruthenia.ru/tiutcheviana/search/index.html. The search is based on the technologies of Novoteka (http://novoteka.ru/).

University of Leeds' (UK) Centre for Translation Studies hosts a range of corpora in a variety of languages (English, Chinese, German, Japanese, Russian). Some corpora are available in-house only (because of copyright restrictions), while others can be accessed freely: http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/

The Uppsala Corpus of Modern Russian: http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/b1/en/korpora.html.

Courses and short-term schools

The Eastern European Summer School in Generative Grammar (EGG) returned in summer 2008 after 10 years to the Hungarian city of Debrecen. General information on the the school can be found here.

.Master Classes in RUSSIAN LINGUISTICS will be conducted at the University of Tromsø during the 2008-09 academic year:

The University of Tromsø does not charge tuition, so the only costs involved are travel and living expenses. The Erasmus program may provide funding for students from EU countries, and other funding opportunities may be available for students from other countries. For more information about this program, visit this site or contact either Prof. Laura Janda or Tore Nesset.

The first Jadertina Summer School in Empirical and Computational Linguistics was held in Zadar, Croatia, from 11-22 September, 2006, sponsored by the University of Zadar, the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, and The Croatian Language Technologies Society (HDJT), in cooperation with the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) and the University of Potsdam.

Journals

The Journal of Slavic Linguistics (JSL) is the official journal of the Slavic Linguistics Society. JSL addresses issues in the description and analysis of Slavic languages of general interests to linguists, regardless of theoretical orientation. See the journal's website for additional information.

Membership in the Slavic Linguistics Society includes a subscription to JSL. The way to become a member of the SLS is to subscribe to JSL. For instructions on how to subscribe to JSL, go here. In addition to receiving the Society's journal (approx. 360 pages/year, usually in two biennial issues), members will pay reduced registration fees at the annual SLS meetings; membership in SLS will be required for presentation. Memberships will be used primarily to defray meeting expenses and to cover printing and mailing costs for JSL.

Annual membership in SLS is $40. The student membership rate is only $20. A reduced subscription of $30 is offered for retired, unemployed, or underemployed individuals, as well as for members under financial stress in Russia or Eastern Europe.

Glossos is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to publishing original, independent research in languages and linguistics. The journal is housed at the Slavic and East European Resource Center at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics (IJSLP)

Russian Linguistics: International Journal for the Study of the Russian Language (RL).

Slavia Centralis. The University of Maribor (Slovenia), Charles University (Prague), Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), the University of Bielsko-Biala (Poland), and the University of Kansas are pleased to announce a new, refereed Slavic-studies journal in the humanities. It will publish articles presenting original research in Slavic linguistics and literary scholarship and is also open to interdisciplinary approaches connected with these two disciplines. The languages of publication are Slovene and other Slavic languages, as well as Hungarian, German, and English. For more information, please contact the editors: Marko Jesensek (Editor-in-Chief), Marc L. Greenberg (Linguistics Editor), or Miran Stuhec (Literature Editor).

Slavic Dialogs is a a journal for Slavic languages, literatures and cultures, published by the University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Research articles should address a wider scholarly topic and should not be longer than 12 pages. Review articles should not be longer than 3 pages. Mail submissions to slav_dial@yahoo.com or milkana@pu.acad.bg.

Slavic and East European Journal (SEEJ). The journal of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), SEEJ publishes work in the areas of Slavic and East European languages, literatures, cultures, linguistics, and methodology/pedagogy.

Slovenski jezik/Slovene Linguistic Studies

Studies in Polish Linguistics

Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie. Bis heute sieht sie ihre Aufgabe darin, unter Mitwirkung in- und ausländischer Wissenschaftler die slavische Philologie in ihrer Gesamtheit – d.h. mit allen slavischen Sprachen und Literaturen – und in einem umfassenden Sinn zu fördern, ohne Einengung auf ein spezielles Gebiet oder eine besondere Forschungsrichtung. Sie bezieht daher auch die Onomastik und Sprachgeographie, die slavische Altertumskunde und Frühgeschichte, die slavische Volksdichtung und Volkskunde, die Geistes-, Kunst- und Kirchengeschichte der Slaven, jeweils auch in den Wechselbeziehungen zu den Nachbarvölkern, ein.

Learned societies and other organizations

American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL)

British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES). The annual spring conference has an active linguistics section with 20-25 slots for papers.

Brno Studies in Linguistics (online)

Bulgarian Studies Association

German Association of Slavicists

International Association of Teachers of Czech (ITAC). An association of linguists, language teachers and literature specialists focused on Czech studies in the U.S., Canada and abroad.

Linguistic Society of America (LSA)

Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB)

Nordic Slavic Association

Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA).

Slavic Linguistics Society (You are already here!)

Slovak Studies Association

Swedish Slavic Association

Other

Computational Linguistics in Poland: http://nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/CLIP/

Croatian Language Technologies Society: www.hdjt.hr

The Formal and Applied Linguistics Institute (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague): http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz.  A major center for computational linguistics and syntax research.

General resources for Slavic linguistics (University of Illinois Library): http://www.library.uiuc.edu/spx/class/SubjectResources/SubSourGen/linggen.htm

Humbul Humanities Hub (a catalog of on-line resources in the humanities based at the University of Oxford): http://www.humbul.ac.uk/. From the homepage there are links to Slavic and East European Studies and to Linguistics.

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kempgen (Chair of Slavic Linguistics, University of Bamberg, Germany) announces the release of a free font for Slavists, BukyVede. This font has been created by William R. Veder (Chicago), with final touches added by Prof. Kempgen. The font supports the (Old Church Slavonic) Cyrillic and Glagolitic Unicode 5.1 character set and is available at http://kodeks.uni-bamberg.de/AKSL/Schrift/BukyVede.htm. For more information, contact Prof. Kempgen (email) or visit his website.

The director of the Institute for the Czech Language at Charles University (Prague, CZ), Prof. Karel Oliva, announces that the archive of excerption slips of Czech lexemes (created between 1906 and 1993, covering sources of cca 1680 to 1993) has been scanned, identified by headwords and is now available over the Internet for anyone interested, free of charge, at the address http://bara.ujc.cas.cz/psjc. The slips are presented jointly with the dictionary Prirucni slovnik jazyka ceskeho (PSJC), created on the basis of the archive.

Resources for Russian linguistics (University of Illinois Library): http://www.library.uiuc.edu/spx/class/SubjectResources/SubSourRus/lingru.htm

Paper Archives

LingBuzz. A useful site for new papers in generative grammar.

Rutgers Optimality Archives

Semantics Archive. There are some papers here on Russian. Not active on 8 February 2006.

Publishers

The Czech Language Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague, CZ). Publisher of many important scholarly journals and operator of the Language Advice Center.

Michigan Slavic Publications (Ann Arbor, Michigan). Publishes proceedings from the Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics conferences.

Slavica Publishers (Bloomington, Indiana). Publishes books, journals, and multimedia materials of interest to Slavic linguists.

Research and discussion groups

Digest, mostly computational linguistics, but includes Slavic-relevant things like the annual international Dialog conference. Contact address: digest@speedy.iis.nsk.su

Moscow Linguistics Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mosling/

Polish Linguistics List: http://tnij.org/ling. The official language of the list is Polish (with occasional announcements in English). The main aim of the list is to spread information about linguistic events in Poland, many of which are too local or too 'workshopy' to be announced on the Linguist List.

Slavic Languages in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG): http://www.ipipan.waw.pl/~agn/slavic.html

Slavonic Linguists in the United Kingdom. http://www.shef.ac.uk/russian/Slavonic-linguists.html

Surrey Morphology Group: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/LIS/SMG

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