Anna W Wietecka Editor

Steven L. Franks is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington, and holds degrees from Princeton, UCLA, and Cornell. Franks is the author of Parameters of Slavic Morphosyntax (1995), Syntax and Spell-Out in Slavic (2017), and Microvariation in the South Slavic Noun Phrase (2020), and is a co-author of A Handbook of Slavic Clitics (2000) and Polish (2002). He has published over 100 articles and co-edited a dozen volumes; in addition, he is one of the founders of the Slavic Linguistics Society and of the Journal of Slavic Linguistics.

Alan H. Timberlake has taught at UCLA, the University of California at Berkeley, and Columbia University. He is the author of The Nominative Object in Slavic, Baltic, and West Finnic (1974) and A Reference Grammar of Russian (2004). He does research on various aspects of Slavic linguistics and cultures (phonology, syntax, geography, sacred texts).

Anna W. Wietecka holds degrees in philology and German studies from the

Samuel-Bogumił-Linde-College of Higher Education in Poznań, Poland, and in foreign languages from the University of Potsdam, Germany. She is a research assistant and doctoral student at the chair of Slavic Linguistics, Department of Slavic languages and literatures, University of Potsdam. Her main areas of teaching and research are in language acquisition, Polish and German syntax, bilingualism, and multilingualism.