In progress / submitted
Hyperspacing the Verb: The interplay between prosody, morphology, syntax and semantics in the Western South Slavic verbal domain. A monograph submitted to Language Science Press. Co-authored with Boban Arsenijević, Franc Lanko Marušič, Petra Mišmaš, Marko Simonovic and Rok Žaucer.
Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2023. Berlin: Language Science Press. Co-edited with Daria Seres, Jelena Simić, Marko Simonović, Jelena Stojković and Jelena Živojinović.
Multifunctional affixes in formal approaches. Submitted to Glossa. Co-authored with Petra Mišmaš and Marko Simonović
Aspectual composition and biaspectual verbs in Slavic: a view from Serbo-Croatian. Submitted to Continua.
Finite verbs always agree syntactically with numeral phrases in Serbian: Evidence from definiteness/specificity. Submitted to Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2024, Berlin, Language Science Press.
There is no such thing as a verbal derivational affix. Submitted to Minimalism in syntax and phonology, ed. by Anna Bondaruk and Sławomir Zdziebko, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Co-authored with Marko Simonović and Boban Arsenijević.
Eliminating redundancy in internal argument selection: the division of labor between prefixes and ‘flavors of v’. Submitted to Linguistics. Co-authored with Predrag Kovačević and Marko Simonović.
Contrastive focus reduplication as a window into the architecture of features. Submitted to Snippets.
Published/accepted
2025 & Accepted
Milosavljević, Stefan. 2025. What you see is what you get: On the uniformity of morpho-syntactic and morpho-phonological properties of pronouns. Canadian Journal of Linguistics.
Milosavljević, Stefan. 2025. A computational Social Network Analysis of the Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić. In Mariya Donska, Lisa Haibl, Goran Lazičić (eds.), Dichtung und Differenz: Südslavistische Beiträge zur 18. Tagung des Jungen Forums Slavistische Literaturwissenschaft 2022 in Graz, Grazer Studien zur Slawistik, Band 14, pp. 33-63. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač. Draft version available here.
Milosavljević, Stefan & Aleksandra Milosavljević. Accepted. The expletive-like pronoun to ‘that’ in Serbo-Croatian as a Topic Situation correlative pronoun. Linguistics (special issue on discourse and expletives).
Arsenijević, Boban, Stefan Milosavljević & Marko Simonović. 2025. Secondary imperfectivisation is reverbalisation. Morphology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-025-09440-7.
Milosavljević, Stefan & Jelena Živojinović. Accepted. The continuum of pronominal clitic systems in Torlak as a window in the DP vs. NP debate. Journal of Slavic Linguistics.
Milosavljević, Stefan & Jelena Stojković. Accepted. Genderedness dictates the choice of agreement with numeral phrases in Serbian. Proceedings of ReLDI 2025.
Milosavljević, Stefan, Marko Simonović, Anđela Babić, Mirjana Mirić & Jelena Stojković. Accepted. Torlak theme vowels in the verbal domain: a corpus-based study. Proceedings of ReLDI 2025.
Simonović, Marko, Petra Mišmaš, Stefan Milosavljević, Boban Arsenijević, Lanko Marušič, Katarina Gomboc Čeh & Rok Žaucer. 2025. How departicipial are l-participle' nominalisations in Western South Slavic. In Berit Gehrke, Denisa Lenertová, Roland Meyer, Daria Seres, Luka Szucsich & Joanna Zaleska (eds.), Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2022. Berlin: Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15394201.
Štarkl, Ema, Marko Simonović, Stefan Milosavljević & Boban Arsenijević. 2025. The Western South Slavic verbal suffix nV/ne is a diminutive affix with a theme vowel. In Berit Gehrke, Denisa Lenertová, Roland Meyer, Daria Seres, Luka Szucsich & Joanna Zaleska (eds.), Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2022. Berlin: Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15394205.
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Milosavljević, Stefan, Anđela Babić, & Marko Simonovic. 2025. Mapping out the Torlak verb [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15736920 .
Milosavljević, Stefan & Jelena Stojković. 2025. Agreement with numeral phrases in Serbian [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15697336
Mišmaš, Petra, Marko Simonović & Stefan Milosavljević. 2025. Annotated database of Slovenian adjectives [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15174244.
2024
Milosavljević, Aleksandra & Stefan Milosavljević. 2024. Standard concessives are inherently focused: evidence from Serbian. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 9(1), 1-39. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.10317.
Ljubešić, Nikola, Nada Galant, Sonja Benčina, Jaka Čibej, Stefan Milosavljević, Peter Rupnik & Taja Kuzman. 2024. DIALECT-COPA: Extending the Standard Translations of the COPA Causal Commonsense Reasoning Dataset to South Slavic Dialects. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024), pages 89–98, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics. Available here.
Kovačević, Predrag, Stefan Milosavljević & Marko Simonović. 2024. Theme-vowel minimal pairs show argument-structure alternations. Journal of linguistics. First View., pp. 1-30. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226723000415.
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Arsenijević, Boban, Katarina Gomboc Čeh, Franc Lanko Marušić, Stefan Milosavljević, Petra Mišmaš, Jelena Simić, Marko Simonović, & Rok Žaucer. 2024. Database of the Western South Slavic Verb HyperVerb 2.0 – WeSoSlaV. Slovenian language resource repository CLARIN.SI. Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). https://hdl.handle.net/11356/1846. ISSN 2820-4042.
Arsenijević, Boban, Franc Lanko Marušič, Stefan Milosavljević, Petra Mišmaš, Marko Simonovic & Rok Žaucer. 2024. Database of the Western South Slavic Verb HyperVerb (WeSoSlaV) – Deverbal Nominalizations [Data set]. Zenodo. https://www.clarin.si/repository/xmlui/handle/11356/1846.
Ljubešić, Nikola, Taja Kuzman, Peter Rupnik, Stefan Milosavljević, Nada Galant, Sonja Benčina & Jaka Čibej. 2024. Choice of plausible alternatives" datasets in South Slavic dialects DIALECT-COPA, Slovenian language resource repository. CLARIN.SI, ISSN 2820-4042. http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1766.
Štarkl, Ema, Stefan Milosavljević, Marko Simonović & Boban Arsenijević. 2024. The Western South Slavic verbal suffix -nV/-ne [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13912034.
2023
Milosavljević, Stefan. 2023. Specification of event duration and aspectual composition in Slavic. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Graz. Available here, here and here [more details under Academic papers].
Milosavljević, Stefan & Aleksandra Milosavljević. 2023. Expletive Dative clitics are situation pronouns: On the switched-situation Dative pronominal in Serbian. Balcania et Slavia 3(1), 58-70. DOI: https://doi.org/10.30687/BES/2785-3187/2023/01/003.
Milosavljević, Stefan. 2023. Simple imperfective verbs, the sequence of similar events interpretation, and Slavic aspectual composition. In Petr Biskup, Marcel Börner, Olav Mueller-Reichau & Iuliia Shcherbina (eds.), Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2021, 265-292. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10123645.
Simonović, Marko, Stefan Milosavljević & Boban Arsenijević. 2023. Serbo-Croatian secondary imperfectivisers consist of theme vowels. Journal of Slavic linguistics, vol. 31, no. FASL 30 issue, Dec. 2023, pp. 1-27, https://ojs.ung.si/index.php/JSL/article/view/178.
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Milosavljević, Stefan, Petra Mišmaš, Marko Simonović, Boban Arsenijević, Katarina Gomboc Čeh, Franc Lanko Marušič, Jelena Simić, and Rok Žaucer. 2023. Database of the Western South Slavic Verb HyperVerb – Derivation. https://clarin.si/repository/xmlui/handle/11356/1855.
Simonović, Marko, Boban Arsenijević, Iulianna van der Lek, Stavros Assimakopoulos, Louis ten Bosch, Darja Fišer, Tihana Kraš, Paul Marty, Maja Miličević Petrović, Stefan Milosavljević, Marc Tanti, Lonneke van der Plas, Margherita Pallottino, Genoveva Puskas & Tanja Samadžić. 2023. Research-based teaching: Guidelines and best practices. UPSKILLS Intellectual output 2.1. https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8176220.
[Milosavljević, Stefan. 2023. The course description: Applications of Linguistics: From computational linguistics via clinical linguistics to forensic linguistics (MA studies), as part of UpSkills Research Based Teaching / Best practices and guidelines / Standalone UPSKILLS RBT courses. Available here: https://upskillsproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/From-computational-linguistics-via-clinical-linguistics-to-forensic-linguistics.pdf.]
2022
Milosavljević, Stefan & Aleksandra Milosavljević. 2022. The statue reading affects the acceptability of intensified pronouns in Serbo-Croatian. Anzeiger für slavische Philologie L, 153-180. DOI: https://doi.org/10.36208/AnzSlPh50202209.
Milosavljević, Stefan. 2022. The delimitative prefix po-, durative adverbials and Slavic aspectual composition. In Annie Holtz, Iva Kovač & Rasmus Puggaard-Rode (eds.), Proceedings of ConSOLE XXX, 17-42. Leiden: Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Available here.
Milosavljević, Aleksandra & Stefan Milosavljević. 2022. The intensifying accusative clitic ga ‘it’ in Serbian: from syntax to pragmatics. In Annie Holtz, Iva Kovač & Rasmus Puggaard-Rode (eds.), Proceedings of ConSOLE XXX, 63-88. Leiden: Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Available here.
Milosavljević, Stefan & Boban Arsenijević. 2022. What differentiates Serbo-Croatian verbal theme vowels: content or markedness? Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.8535.
Arsenijević, Boban & Stefan Milosavljević. 2022. The pronoun sam 'self' in Serbo-Croatian and Binding Theory. In Biljana Mišić Ilić & Vesna Lopičić (eds.), Language, Literature, Alternatives, Niš: University of Niš, 57-66. https://doi.org/10.46630/jkaj.2022.3.
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Marušič, Franc Lanko, Rok Žaucer, Petra Mišmaš, Boban Arsenijević, Marko Simonović, Stefan Milosavljević, Katarina Gomboc Čeh & Jelena Simić. 2022. Database of the Western South Slavic Verb HyperVerb 1.0. Slovenian language resource repository CLARIN.SI, http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1683.
2020
Mišmaš, Petra, Marko Simonović, Boban Arsenijević, Stefan Milosavljević, Agnieszka Będkowska-Kopczyk, Petya Rogić & Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina. 2020. Plavanje da, zaplavanje ne? Obrazilo -je v glagolnikih in drugih okoljih v vseslovanskem kontekstu [Plavanje yes, zaplavanje no? The affix -je in verbs and other environments in the all-Slavic context]. In M. Šekli & L. Rezoničnik (Eds.), Slovenski jezik in književnost v srednjeevropskem prostoru. Zveza društev Slavistično društvo Slovenije (pp. 221–231). Slavistično društvo Slovenije.
Milosavljević, Stefan. 2020. O odnosu muškog i srednjeg roda pri kongruenciji sa subjektom iskazanim brojnom sintagmom u srpskom jeziku [On the relationship of masculine and neuter in agreement with a subject expressed by the partitive phrase in Serbian], Филологически форум / Philological Forum, 6/2, 102-110. Available here.
2019
Milosavljević, Stefan. 2019. Primena računarske analize društvenih mreža u proučavanju strukture Hazarskog rečnika Milorada Pavića [Application of software-based analysis of social networks in exploring the structure of the Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić]. MA thesis, University of Belgrade. Available here [more details under Academc papers].
Milosavljević, Stefan. 2019. O upotrebi iterativnih glagola u perfektu za označavanje izbrojivog mnoštva radnji i njihovoj konkurenciji sa svršenim glagolima (na primerima iz novinarskog stila srpskog jezika) [On Some Imperfective Verbs and Their Perfective Counterparts in the Past Tense in Constructions that Express Countable Multiplicity of Actions (on Examples from Publicist Style of Serbian)]. Naučni sastanak slavista u Vukove dane, 48(3), 149–191. https://doi.org/10.18485/msc.2019.48.3.ch8
Milosavljević, Stefan. 2019. Postoje li jezički fosili? [Are There Fossils of Language?] Svet reči, 47–48, 19–28. Available here.
Jovanović, Aleksandra & Stefan Milosavljević. 2019. Bla, bla, bla (o formi u službi semantike i pragmatike) [Bla(h), bla(h), bla(h) (on the Form in the Service of Semantics and Pragmatics)]. Jezik danas, 13, 27–35. Available here.
Milosavljević, Stefan. 2019. Semantika i pragmatika evaluativnog refleksivnog dativa u govoru jablaničkog kraja (u svetlu srodnih fenomena u drugim jezicima/govorima) [Semantics and Pragmatics of the Evaluative Dative Reflexive in the Speech of the Jablanica Region (with Reference to Similar Phenomena in Other Speeches/Languages)]. In M. Kovačević & J. Petković (Eds.), Savremena proučavanja jezika i književnosti. X/1 (pp. 45–56). Kragujevac: FILUM. Available here.
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Milosavljević, Stefan. 2019. MISTERIJE NASTANKA JEZIKA (Ljiljana Progovac, A Critical Introduction to Language Evolution: Current Controversies and Future Prospects, Springer, 2019, xiv+86) [MYSTERIES OF THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE (Ljiljana Progovac, A Critical Introduction to Language Evolution: Current Controversies and Future Prospects, Springer, 2019, xiv + 86)]. Književnost i jezik, LXVI/2, 381–388. Available here.
Milosavljević, Stefan. 2019. GRAMATIKA U SVETLU SEMANTIKE (Duška Klikovac. Srpski jezik u svetlu kognitivne lingvistike. Beograd: Društvo za srpski jezik i književnost Srbije, 2018, 304 str.) [GRAMMAR IN THE LIGHT OF SEMANTICS (Duška Klikovac. Serbian Language in the Light of Cognitive Linguistics. Belgrade: Association for Serbian Language and Literature of Serbia, 2018, 304 pages)]. Zbornik Matice srpske za filologiju i lingvistiku, 62/2, 277–285. Available here.
Jovanović, Aleksandra & Stefan Milosavljević. 2019. O jednoj letnjoj gramatičkoj avanturi (Eastern Generative Grammar, Vroclav, 2019) [On a summer grammar adventure (Eastern Generative Grammar, Wroclaw, 2019)]. Lingvističke aktuelnosti, 32, 67–73. Available here.
Jovanović, Aleksandra & Stefan Milosavljević. 2019. Letnja škola generativne gramatike [Summer school of generative grammar]. Svet reči, 47/48, 33–35.
2018
Milosavljević, Stefan. 2018. Kongruencija glagolskog predikata sa subejaktskim sintagmama konstituisanim osnovnim brojem [Verbal Predicate Agreement with a Subject in the form of Phrase with a Cardinal Numeral as Its Head]. Zbornik Matice srpske za filologiju i lingvistiku, LXI(2), 43–56. Available here.
Milosavljević, Stefan. 2018. Kongruencija glagolskog predikata sa subjektom iskazanim partitivnom brojnom sintagmom čiji je centar osnovni broj u savremenom srpskom jeziku (istraživanje na testu prihvatljivosti) [Verbal Predicate Agreement with a Subject in the Form of Partitive Construction with a Cardinal Numeral as Its Head in Contemporary Serbian (Acceptability Judgement Based Research)]. Nasleđe, 41, 63–79. Available here.
Milosavljević, Stefan. 2018. Metodički pristup temi slovenskog jezika i pisma u Hazarskom rečniku Milorada Pavića na dodatnoj nastavi u srednjoj školi [Methodological Approach to the Language and Alphabet of the Early Slavs in Milorad Pavić’s Dictionary of the Khazars in Teaching Additional Classes in High School]. Metodički vidici, 9, 55–74. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.19090/mv.2018.9.55-74.
Milosavljević, Stefan. 2018. Osobine klitičkog udvajanja u govoru jablaničkog kraja [Properties of Clitic Doubling in the Speech of the Region of Jablanica]. In M. Kovačević (Ed.), Savremena proučavanja jezika i književnosti, IX/1 (pp. 41–52). Kragujevac: FILUM. Available here.
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Milosavljević, Stefan. 2018. Boban Arsenijević, Sabina Halupka-Rešetar (ur.): SRPSKI JEZIK U SAVREMENOJ LINGVISTIČKOJ TEORIJI : ZBORNIK RADOVA. Niš: Filozofski fakultet. [Boban Arsenijević, Sabina Halupka-Rešetar (Eds.): SERBIAN LANGUAGE IN CONTEMPORARY LINGUISTIC THEORY: PROCEEDINGS. Niš: Faculty of Philosophy], Lingvističke aktuelnosti, 31, 62–70. Available here.
2017
Milosavljević, Stefan. 2017. Kongruencija predikata sa subjektom iskazanim partitivnom brojnom sintagmom čiji je centar osnovni broj u savremenom srpskom jeziku [Verbal Predicate Agreement with a Subject in the Form of Partitive Construction with a Cardinal Numeral as Its Head in the Contemporary Serbian language]. MA thesis, Universiity of Belgrade. Available here [more details under Academic papers].
Milosavljević, Stefan. 2017. Raspoređivanje enklitika u govoru jablaničkog kraja [The placement of Enclitics in the Speech of the Region of Jablanica]. Svet reči, 43/44, 64–70. Available here.
2016
Milosavljević, Stefan. 2016. Priloška značenja predloško-padežnih konstrukcija sa predlogom od u govoru mladih u Lebanu [Adverbial meanings of prepositional phrases headed by the preposition od ‘from’ in the speech of young people in Lebane]. In Radmila Žugić (Ed.), Dijalekti srpskoga jezika: istraživanja, nastava, književnost 1 (pp. 343–353). Univerzitet u Nišu, Leskovački kulturni centar / Pedagoški fakultet u Vranju.
2013
Milosavljević, Stefan. 2013. Brojna partitivna konstrukcija u srpskom jeziku uz glagole koji kao rekciju zahtevaju bespredloški dativ na primeru broja pet [Partitive Phrase in Serbian with Verbs that Require the Dative without Preposition as a Complement, Using the Number Five as an Example]. Petničke sveske, 70, 451–464. Available here.
2012
Milosavljević, Stefan. 2012. Prenošenje akcenta prizrensko-timočkog dijalekta na teritoriji Lebana u čitanom tekstu pod uticajem pripadnosti teksta različitim sferama komunikacije i generacijskih razlika [The Transfer of the Prizren-Timok Dialect Accent on the Territory of Lebane in a Reading Text Depending on the Texts of Different Spheres of Communication and Generation Differences]. Petničke sveske, 69, 507–519. Available here.
Academic papers
2023
Milosavljević, Stefan. 2023. Specification of event duration and aspectual composition in Slavic. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Graz. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Boban Arsenijević (University of Graz, Department of Slavic Studies); Evaluators: Prof. Dr. Boban Arsenijević and Dr. Berit Gehrke (HU Berlin, Institut für Slawistik und Hungarologie). Examiners: Prof. Dr. Boban Arsenijević, Dr. Berit Gehrke, and Prof. Dr. Edgar Onea (University of Graz, Department of German Studies). Chairperson: Prof. Dr. Dina El Zarka (University of Graz, Department of Linguistics).
2019
Milosavljević, Stefan. 2019. Primena računarske analize društvenih mreža u proučavanju strukture Hazarskog rečnika Milorada Pavića [Application of software-based analysis of social networks in exploring the structure of the Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić]. Master thesis defended at the University of Belgrade (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jelena Jovanović, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences; committee members: Prof. Dr. Ana Aleksić Mirić, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Economy; Doc. Dr. Mina Đurić, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology). Available here.
2017
Milosavljević, Stefan. 2017. Kongruencija predikata sa subjektom iskazanim partitivnom brojnom sintagmom čiji je centar osnovni broj u savremenom srpskom jeziku [Verbal Predicate Agreement with a Subject in the Form of Partitive Construction with a Cardinal Numeral as Its Head in the Contemporary Serbian language]. Master thesis defended at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology (supervisor: Doc. Dr. Balša Stipčević, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology; committee member: Prof. Dr. Duška Klikovac, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology). Available here.
Manuscripts
2023 [2019]
Milosavljević, Stefan. Ms. Metafora iz ugla jezika kao samoorganizujućeg sistema. Available here.