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The Mid­dle Voice in Baltic
The fifth vol­ume in the VAR­GReB series is a mono­graph pre­sent­ing a col­lec­tion of stud­ies on mid­dle-voice grams in Baltic, that is, on a wide­ly ram­i­fied fam­i­ly of con­struc­tions with dif­fer­ent syn­tac­tic and seman­tic prop­er­ties but shar­ing a mor­pho­log­i­cal mark­er of reflex­ive ori­gin. Though the empha­sis is on Baltic, ample atten­tion is giv­en to oth­er lan­guages as well, espe­cial­ly to Slavon­ic. The book offers many new insights into ques­tions of syn­tac­tic and seman­tic inter­pre­ta­tion, cor­rect demar­ca­tion and diachron­ic expla­na­tion of mid­dle-voice grams. The rela­tion­ship between reflex­ive and mid­dle, the work­ings of metonymy, changes in syn­tac­tic struc­ture and lex­i­cal input as fac­tors deter­min­ing diachron­ic shifts with­in the mid­dle-voice domain and tran­si­tions from one mid­dle-voice gram to anoth­er – these are among the top­ics dis­cussed in the book, which, beyond its rel­e­vance to Baltic and Slavon­ic schol­ar­ship, is also a con­tri­bu­tion to the typol­o­gy of the mid­dle voice.
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Speak­ing for the nation: Intel­lec­tu­als and nation-build­ing in the post-Yugoslav space
The book explores the nexus of intel­lec­tu­al activ­i­ty and nation-build­ing from a crit­i­cal dis­course-ana­lyt­i­cal per­spec­tive. By exam­in­ing how pub­lic intel­lec­tu­als from Ser­bia, Croa­t­ia, and Bosnia and Herze­gov­ina com­ment­ed on key nation­al events in edi­to­ri­als and opin­ion pieces, it offers unique insights into con­tem­po­rary nation-build­ing dis­cours­es in an enlarg­ing Europe. Through a detailed recon­struc­tion of the debates con­cern­ing the select­ed events, the book also pro­vides fresh empir­i­cal evi­dence of the impli­ca­tions and chal­lenges of post-social­ist tran­si­tion, post-con­flict rec­on­cil­i­a­tion, democ­ra­ti­sa­tion and Euro­pean inte­gra­tion in the post-Yugoslav region. Its ver­sa­tile frame­work, which inno­v­a­tive­ly com­bines soci­o­log­i­cal and lin­guis­tic approach­es to the dis­cur­sive posi­tion­ing of intel­lec­tu­als, may be read­i­ly applied to the analy­sis of intel­lec­tu­al engage­ment with cur­rent affairs and pub­lic life in gen­er­al.
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