Prof. Masha Belyavski-Frank Publishes The Balkan Conditional in South Slavic

July 21, 2003

July 21, 2003, Greencastle, Ind. - The Balkan Conditional in South Slavic: A Semantic and Syntactic Study by Masha Belyavski-Frank, associate professor of modern languages (Russian) and director of Russian Studies at DePauw University, has been published by Verlag Otto Sagner of Munich, Germany. Dr. Belyavski-Frank has been a member of the DePauw faculty since 1992.

The professor's book, according to a synopsis, "examines the morphological and semantic development of the modal construction formed with either the imperfect of 'to want' plus the infinitive, or with a modal particle from 'to want' plus the imperfect of the main verb. Analysis of the Balkan conditional is given for examples taken from diverse sources, including epic folk poetry, dialectal texts,and the standard literary language in the South Slavic languages, as well as in the Balkan non-Slavic languages of Greek, Albanian, Daco-Rumanian, Istro-Rumanian, and Arumanian. Specific syntactic and semantic contexts are analyzed, and comparison is made with other modal constructions in these languages."

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