Comparative Slavic Morphosyntax:
"The State of the Art"

Download the Position Papers

All of the position papers are now ready for downloading:

• Leonard H. Babby: "Voice and Diathesis in Slavic"
  • .pdf version (645 K) which may be viewed and printed on various computer platforms using the free utility Adobe Acrobat Reader (see below for a link to download)
  • .ps version which may be printed to any Postscript printer from various computer platforms using any of the innumerable utilities for this purpose (see below for links). You may download this as a plain Postscript file (1795 K; longer download), or as a zipped Postscript file (902 K; shorter download but requires unzipping after you get it)
  • You may also like to download a comprehensive annotated bibliography on the Slavic "-no/-to" construction, compiled by Loren Billings and Joan Maling, which complements the paper. The bibliography is available in the same formats: .pdf version
  • (646 K), a plain Postscript file (3201 K), or as a zipped Postscript file (1533 K). This bibliography was originally published in the Journal of Slavic Linguistics (vol. 3, 1995), but has since been corrected, updated, and enlarged.
• Zeljko Boskovic: "Wh-Phrases and Wh-Movement in Slavic"
  • .pdf version (473 K) which may be viewed and printed on various computer platforms using the free utility Adobe Acrobat Reader (see below for a link to download)
  • .ps version which may be printed to any Postscript printer from various computer platforms using any of the innumerable utilities for this purpose (see below for links). You may download this as a plain Postscript file (1597 K), or as a zipped Postscript file (824 K)
• Greville Corbett: "Agreement in Slavic"
  • .pdf version (666K) which may be viewed and printed on various computer platforms using the free utility Adobe Acrobat Reader (see below for a link to download)
  • .ps version which may be printed to any Postscript printer from various computer platforms using any of the innumerable utilities for this purpose (see below for links). You may download this as a plain Postscript file (2137 K), or as a zipped Postscript file (1076 K)
  • You can also obtain a more comprehensive bibliography which complements the paper by following this link: Agreement Bibliography
• Steven Franks: "Clitics in Slavic"
  • .pdf version (785K) which may be viewed and printed on various computer platforms using the free utility Adobe Acrobat Reader (see below for a link to download)
  • .ps version which may be printed to any Postscript printer from various computer platforms using any of the innumerable utilities for this purpose (see below for links). You may download this as a plain Postscript file (2386 K), or as a zipped Postscript file (1098 K)
• Gilbert C. Rappaport: "The Slavic Noun Phrase"
  • .pdf version (511K) which may be viewed and printed on various computer platforms using the free utility Adobe Acrobat Reader (see below for a link to download)
  • .ps version which may be printed to any Postscript printer from various computer platforms using any of the innumerable utilities for this purpose (see below for links). You may download this as a plain Postscript file (1740 K), or as a zipped Postscript file (843 K)

A volume of proceedings will be published by Slavica Publishers.

• If you need free software to view or print these files, then you can get it by following the links below:
• To view and print a .pdf file, get Adobe's free utility Acrobat Reader, which is available for all major computer platforms (Macintosh, Windows, OS/2, Unix). All can be obtained from the Acrobat Reader download pages. For best results, be sure to use only version 3.0.x.
• Postscript (.ps) files can be printed to any Poscript printer from any computer platforms. On each type of computer there are various free utilities which will print such files directly.
  • On the Macintosh, you can use Apple's Apple Printer Utility or Laserwriter Utility, which are provided with any Laserwriter. Or you can use the very simple freeware utility Drop P.S. 1.1.3
  • On Windows computers, two appropriate utilities are: prfile 2.0 and rops3244
  • Plentiful solutions exist for other platforms as well.

If you cannot download or use electronic versions of the position papers, you may request a printed copy of any of the papers from the address below. However, However, in view of our limited budget and staff resources, we urge you to utilize the electronic versions if possible.

Additional information is available:

• Preliminary Program
• Practical Information on travel, accommodations, food, etc.

All requests for information, inquiries about position papers, and abstracts should be sent to:

slavconf@indiana.edu	[Office tel.] 1-812-855-2829
George Fowler	[Dept. tel.] 1-812-855-9906/-2624/-2608
Dept. of Slavic Languages	[Dept. fax] 1-812-855-2107
Ballantine 502	[Home tel.] 1-317-726-1482
Indiana University	[Home fax] 1-317-726-1642
Bloomington, IN 47405 USA	[Slavica tel.] 1-812-856-4186
[Email] gfowler@indiana.edu	[Slavica fax] 1-812-856-4187

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Last updated: 25 May 1998

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