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September 18th
Invited talk by Marko Simonović at FDSL.
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August 5th
New paper in Linguistica Brunensia!
May 27th
Four new papers in Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2022!
May 19th
New paper!
Arsenijević, Boban, Stefan Milosavljević & Marko Simonović. 2025. Secondary imperfectivisation is reverbalisation. Morphology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-025-09440-7.
April 9th
New database out!
Mišmaš, P., Simonović, M., & Milosavljević, S. (2025). Annotated database of Slovenian adjectives [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15174244
March 27th
New paper out!
Simonović, Marko. 2025. Three theme vowels, zero conjugation classes: A classless analysis of Fiuman verbs. In Romance minority languages: A challenge for linguistic theory , eds. Michela Russo & Shanti Ulfsbjorninn. Special issue of Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 11(3)/4,1–23. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.413
March 24th
This week you can find us at GLOW. On Monday, March 24th, we will be at the (Universal) Paradigmatic Gaps in Göttingen, where Predrag Kovacević (University of Novi Sad), Berit Gehrke (Humboldt University Berlin), and our own Marko Simonović (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz) will be giving a talk titled The importance of having a degree: Missing short and long form adjectives in BCMS. Then, we are off to the main session in Frankfurt to present a poster called Clause Mates Matter, authored by Ekaterina Georgieva (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics) and three of our own researchers: Franc Marušič, Petra Mišmaš, and Rok Žaucer (University of Nova Gorica). Visit https://glowlinguistics.org/47/ for abstracts. and more.
March 19
This Thursday, March 20, 2025, Petra Mišmaš will give a talk titled "One of Those Things Is Not Like the Others: Non‐Uniformity of Theme Vowel Classes in Slovenian" at the CRISSP TCC Seminar Series. Visit the series site for more.
March 3rd
The journal РУСИНИСТИЧНИ СТУДІЇ (Ruthenian Studies) has just published the paper ВИД НОМИНАЛИЗАЦИЙОХ НА -НЄ/-ЦЕ У РУСКИМ И ЙОМУ ЗРОДНИХ И СУШЕДНИХ ЯЗИКОХ or Aspect of Nje/Ce-Nominalizations in Pannonian Rusyn and Its Related and Neighboring Language by Marko Simonović, our Graz PI, and Predrag Kovačević, one of our favorite collaborators. You can read the paper (with an extensive summary in English) here.
Febuary 23th
This Thursday, February 27, 2025, Marko Simonović will give a talk titled "What Does Phonology Know About Theme Vowels? Theme-Vowel-Avoiding Stress in Stress Standard BCMS?" at the CRISSP TCC Seminar Series. Visit the series site for more details.
December 9th
Our Graz team is headed to Brussels! They’ll be attending the Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics (BCGL), which this year focuses on categories & categorization. They will participate with two talks: Severing affixes from categories and borrowed derivations by Predrag Kovačević (University of Novi Sad) and Marko Simonovic and There is no such thing as a verbal derivational affix by Marko Simonovic, Stefan Milosavljević and Boban Arsenijević.
Visit https://www.crissp.be/bcgl-17-categories-categorization/ for more.
September 13
This year's SinFonIJA will be hosted by the Center for Cognitive Science of Language at the University of Nova Gorica. The conference will also host a Multifunctionality in Morphology Workshop. Visit https://sites.google.com/view/sinfonija-17/ for more on the conference and the workshop.
August 22
We were at the 21st International Morphology Meeting, 28 - 30 August 2024, Vienna (Austria). Guy Tabachnick presented a poster Czech speakers productively apply correlations between inflected forms and Madeleine Butschety & Petra Mišmaš gave a talk (For better or worse, we need to talk about -š) at the Adjectives, categorization and argument structure Workshop.
May 2nd
New paper by Guy Tabachnick from our Nova Gorica team was just published in Glossa. Read it here: https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/10260/
April 2nd
During SinFonIJA 17, which will be held at the University of Nova Gorica, we will be hosting a Multifunctionality in Morphology workshop. Visit the SinFonIJA site for more.
Febuary 9th
New paper! Simonović Marko, Stefan Milosavljević, and Boban Arsenijević.2023, Serbo-Croatian Secondary Imperfectivisers Consist of Theme Vowels. Journal of Slavic Linguistics, vol. 31, no. FASL 30 issue. 1-27, https://ojs.ung.si/index.php/JSL/article/view/178.
Febuary 5th
Milosavljević, Aleksandra and Milosavljević, Stefan. 2024. Standard concessives are inherently focused: evidence from Serbian. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 9(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.10317.
Febuary 2nd
Marko Simonović and Petra Mišmaš just published a paper on “The Interaction Between Theme Vowels and Secondary Imperfectives in Slovenian: The Curious Case of ava and eva” in Journal of Slavic Linguistics. Get it here.
January 22th
CRISSP Seminar with Marko Simonović will be happening on January 22 at 3.30 pm. Title of the talk: The burden of Self-Realisation: Phi-Feature Exponence in Fiuman Verbs. Visit CRISSP website for more.
January 17th, 2024
The newly published Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2021 also include papers by Boban Arsenijević (Specification of telicity in Serbo-Croatian, without null prefixes) and Stefan Milosavljević (Simple imperfective verbs, the sequence of similar events interpretation, and Slavic aspectual composition).
Visit https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/411 for more.
November 13th, 2023
New paper out! Marko Simonović's paper Derivational affixes as roots across categories jas been published in Journal of Slavic Linguistics. Find it here.
October 1st, 2023
We are delighted to announce that Madeleine Butschety has joined the Nova Gorica group.
September 11th, 2023
We are delighted to announce that Guy Tabachnick has joined the Nova Gorica group. To read more about him, visit: https://wp.nyu.edu/guyt/
August 11th, 2023
We are happy to announce that the following talks will be given by our members at the SLE-56 meeting in Athens:
Arsenijević, Boban, Stefan Milosavljević & Marko Simonović. (University of Graz): Secondary imperfectivisation is reverbalisation is addition of theme vowels (Workshop Inflection and derivation in the Slavic verb)
Aleksandra Milosavljević1 & Stefan Milosavljević2 (1The SASA Institute for Serbian Language; 2University of Graz): Expletive Datives are situational Datives (Workshop Expletives at the syntax-discourse interface)
Visit the SLE-56 website for more.
August 11th, 2023
The following talks will be given by our members at the SinFonIJA 16 conference in Brno:
Marko Simonović (University of Graz): Three TVs, zero conjugation classes: Phi-feature exponence in Fiuman verbs
Aleksandra Milosavljević1 & Stefan Milosavljević2 (1The SASA Institute for Serbian Language; 2University of Graz): Standard concessives are inherently focused
Marko Simonović1 & Petra Mišmaš2 (1University of Graz; 2University of Nova Gorica): Predictably peculiar: Base modifications in Slovenian deverbal nominalisations
Visit the SinFonIJA16 website for more.
June 15th, 2023
Our very own Marko Simonović will be teaching at EGG this year! EGG is a a summer school in generative linguistics and this year it will be hosted by the lovely Novi Sad. He'll be teaching two classes Pitch accent: Stress+Tone? and Morphologically Controlled Tone: A Case Study from BCMS. For more and to register visit https://eggschool.org.
May 18th, 2023
Our talk "Ov to the rescue" will be presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS-18) in Bratislava, Slovakia, August 24-26 2023.
May 17th, 2023
Call for postdoc positions in Nova Gorica (among them a position related to our project) is ending today. Find it here.
April 17th, 2023
Join our project! University of Nova Gorica has a call for four postdocs, among the eligible topics is multifunctionality in morphology. Find the call here.