Spachtypologie und Universalienforschungrschung (Language Typology and Universals): Slovenian from a Typological Perspective

This issue of STUF is a collection of typological studies on the Slovenian language which contrast Slovenian either with other Slavic languages or with languages in general, mostly English, French, German and Italian.The volume aims to achieve at least two goals.First, it intends to shed light on the issues in Slovenian grammar for which this language is particularly interesting for general linguistic theory, such as clitic placement, verbal aspect, dual number, word order, and word prosody, to name just a few.To achieve this goal, the articles, both theory and data-oriented, list and deal with Slovenian data pertaining to the grammatical phenomena in question, at the same time tying them into linguistic theory according to the theoretical frameworks adopted by individual authors.Second, as most of theoretical work on these issues is only found in the Slovenian language and is therefore less accessible or inaccessible to linguists who would wish to include this language in their studies, the volume aims to present the issues to a wider, non-Slovenian-reading audience.Written in English, this volume provides an invaluable source of knowledge and information about Slovenian for such research, at the same time helping to promote the knowledge of Slovenian in the international arena of theoretical linguistic research.The collection consists of a general introduction on the Slovenian language and nine articles on different issues in the grammar of Slovenian from a typological perspective.In this review I shall first summarize and comment on different parts (the Introduction and the articles) and then offer a general review of the whole.'English dictionaries and encyclopaedias generally list Slovene and Slovenian both as possible options.In this review, I use the variant chosen by the authors in quotations (of the titles or the text) and Slovenian, my personal choice, elsewhere.