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Where is conversion in Slavonic languages? Stela Manova, Understanding morphological rules. With special emphasis on conversion and subtraction in Bulgarian, Russian and Serbo-Croatian

Where is conversion in Slavonic languages? Stela Manova, Understanding morphological rules. With... Where is conversion in Slavonic languages? Stela Manova, Understanding morphological rules. With special emphasis on conversion and subtraction in Bulgarian, Russian and Serbo-Croatian ( = Studies in Morphology 1). Dordrecht: Springer, 2011. xx + 240pp. ISBN: 978-90-481-9546-6 (hardback). Reviewed by BOZENA CETNAROWSKA Keywords: conversion, zero derivation, paradigmatic derivation, subtraction, Slavonic morphology, Natural Morphology 1. Overview The book under review is based on M's research that led to her doctoral dissertation (Manova 2003). The monograph consists of six chapters and nine appendices. Chapter One (`Preliminaries', pp. 1­34) is of an introductory character. The author starts with some comments on the use of the terms CONVERSION and SUBTRACTION in Slavonic studies. She gives a helpful description of nominal and verbal inflection in the three Slavonic languages to be scrutinized in the book: Bulgarian, Russian and SerboCroation (the latter term subsuming Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian). She proceeds with the explanation of morphological terms employed in the chapters to follow (for example, thematic markers, aspectual markers, root extensions). Chapter Two (`Theoretical Background', pp. 35­53) presents an outline of the theoretical framework adopted by M, which is the theory of Natural Morphology (as developed by Wolfgang U. Dressler and his collaborators, cf. Dressler http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Word Structure Edinburgh University Press

Where is conversion in Slavonic languages? Stela Manova, Understanding morphological rules. With special emphasis on conversion and subtraction in Bulgarian, Russian and Serbo-Croatian

Word Structure , Volume 10 (1): 121 – Apr 1, 2017

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Edinburgh University Press
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1750-1245
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10.3366/word.2017.0103
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Where is conversion in Slavonic languages? Stela Manova, Understanding morphological rules. With special emphasis on conversion and subtraction in Bulgarian, Russian and Serbo-Croatian ( = Studies in Morphology 1). Dordrecht: Springer, 2011. xx + 240pp. ISBN: 978-90-481-9546-6 (hardback). Reviewed by BOZENA CETNAROWSKA Keywords: conversion, zero derivation, paradigmatic derivation, subtraction, Slavonic morphology, Natural Morphology 1. Overview The book under review is based on M's research that led to her doctoral dissertation (Manova 2003). The monograph consists of six chapters and nine appendices. Chapter One (`Preliminaries', pp. 1­34) is of an introductory character. The author starts with some comments on the use of the terms CONVERSION and SUBTRACTION in Slavonic studies. She gives a helpful description of nominal and verbal inflection in the three Slavonic languages to be scrutinized in the book: Bulgarian, Russian and SerboCroation (the latter term subsuming Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian). She proceeds with the explanation of morphological terms employed in the chapters to follow (for example, thematic markers, aspectual markers, root extensions). Chapter Two (`Theoretical Background', pp. 35­53) presents an outline of the theoretical framework adopted by M, which is the theory of Natural Morphology (as developed by Wolfgang U. Dressler and his collaborators, cf. Dressler

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Word StructureEdinburgh University Press

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