This volume presents a number of contributions to the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society held in Szczecin, Poland, October 26 28. The largest number of articles address issues related to the (morpho)syntactic level of language structure, and several papers describe results of recent research into different aspects of Slavic linguistics as well. The current volume proves conclusively that Slavic linguists make a remarkable contribution to the development of various theoretical frameworks by analysing linguistic evidence from richly inflected languages, which allows them to...

Word order and syntactic structure are intertwined. Cross-linguistically, focus, clefts and topic can be located in sentence left-periphery or elsewhere. Syntactic derivations may be freed from lexical features. Reason clauses are accountable within the theory of relativization. Gradient acceptability is a crucial tool for linguistic evaluation.