This volume contains articles by 17 slavists from the Low Countries. Although they are all about Slavic linguistics, they cover a wide range of subjects and their theoretical implications are often not restricted to slavistics alone. Most contributions deal with Russian or Slavic in general, but South and West Slavic are also represented. The reader who knows the strong points for which Dutch slavistics is traditionally known and appreciated will not be disappointed: s/he will find papers on syntax and semantics (Fortuin, Van Helden, Honselaar, Keijsper, Tribušinina), aspectology (Barentsen, Genis), philology (Veder), historical Slavic phonology and morphology (Derksen, Kortlandt, Vermeer), dialectology (Houtzagers, Pronk), the study of sentence intonation (Odé) and papers representing crossroads between these disciplines: philology and historical linguistics (Hendriks, Schaeken), aspectology and philology (Kalsbeek). Apart from its quality in the linguistic fields enumerated here, Dutch Slavic linguistics is known for its empirical approach: the main goal is to find explanations for linguistic reality. Theory is relevant inasmuch as it helps us to find such explanations and not for its own sake. Though each and every paper in this volume exemplifies this empirical attitude, it might be especially illustrative to mention that almost all authors who studied the larger contemporary Slavic languages made extensive use of language corpus resources, part of which were collected at the University of Amsterdam.
AДРИАН БАРЕНТСЕН: ВЫРАЖЕНИЕ ПОСЛЕДОВАТЕЛЬНОСТИ ДЕЙСТВИЙ ПРИ ПОВТОРЯЕМОСТИ В ПРОШЛОМ В СОВРЕМЕННЫХ СЛАВЯНСКИХ ЯЗЫКАХ
Rick DERKSEN: NOTES ON THE SLAVIC METATHESIS OF LIQUIDS
Egbert FORTUIN: SEMANTICS AND SYNTAX OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF DEGREE IN RUSSIAN
René GENIS: PERDURATIVITY IN POLISH – 100 YEARS AFTER AGRELL
W. Andries VAN HELDEN: VICISSITUDES OF THE GENITIVE RULE
Pepijn HENDRIKS and Jos SCHAEKEN: ON THE COMPOSITION AND LANGUAGE OF THREE EARLY MODERN RUSSIAN-GERMAN PHRASEBOOKS
Pepijn HENDRIKS: THE EXPRESSION OF FUTURE TENSE IN THE PHRASEBOOK OF TÖNNIES FENNE (PSKOV, 1607): A PHILOLOGICAL APPROACH
Wim HONSELAAR: RECIPROCAL MARKERS IN RUSSIAN
Peter HOUTZAGERS: ON BURGENLAND CROATIAN ISOGLOSSES
Janneke KALSBEEK: PAST TENSE HABITUAL EXPRESSIONS IN OLD CROATIAN TEXTS
Cornelia E. KEIJSPER: FROM OVS ORDER TO CONVERSE STRUCTURE IN RUSSIAN AND OTHER SLAVIC LANGUAGES
Frederik KORTLANDT: SLAVIC HISTORICAL MORPHOLOGY: NOMINAL PARADIGMS
Cecilia ODÉ: transcription of russian intonation, toRI, AN INTERACTIVE RESEARCH TOOL AND LEARNING MODULE ON THE INTERNET
Tijmen PRONK: Fonološki opis govora Potoč v Ziljski dolini
Eлена Tрибушинина: НЕСКОЛЬКО АКСИОМ О ПРИЛАГАТЕЛЬНЫХ-АНТОНИМАХ: КОНТРАРГУМЕНТЫ ИЗ РУССКОГО ЯЗЫКА
William R. VEDER: THE GLAGOLITIC BARRIER
Willem VERMEER: PEDERSEN’S CHRONOLOGY OF THE PROGRESSIVE PALATALIZATION