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Slavic and German in contact: Studies from areal and contrastive linguistics ed. by Elżbieta Kaczmarska and Motoki Nomachi (review)

The 26th volume of Slavic Eurasian studies considers language contact between Slavic and German. The articles in this volume deal with the influence of German on topics ranging from clitics to morphology to the verbal system to the lexicon. The contributors and editors are to be applauded for their effort to examine not only the commonly recognized standard Slavic languages but also languages which do not enjoy the same status within the Slavic family: Burgenland Croatian, Kashubian (with data from extinct Slovincian), and Silesian. The opening article by Andreja Žele and Eva Sicherl represents an attempt at a contrastive description of the relationship between prefixes and prepositions occurring with verbs (including their valency structure) in Slovenian and German. A new classification of prefixed verbs based on transformations is introduced. The classification includes prefixed verbs in which (i) the prefix has adverbial meaning, (ii) the prefix can be derived from a similarly-sounding preposition, and (iii) there is a prepositional phrase with a paraphrase of the main verb in the semantic structure. It is often the case that German translations of such verbs are also prefixed and allow for similarly structured para phrases. Consequently, a similar classification of German prefixed verbs is possible as well. Along with the analysis, abundant examples in both German and Slovenian are provided. Similarities between South and West Slavic material (e.g., Slvn položiti na mizo ‘to put back in its place’ Pol położyć na miejsce, Slvn prenočiti v koči ‘to spend the night in a cabin’ Pol przenocować w chacie, etc.) open the door to a broader and contrastive study of relations between prefixed and prepositional verbs in Slavic and German. Motoki Nomachi, exploring Germanic influence on Kashubian, argues that it possesses four of the five characteristics of non-pro-drop languages, while all other Slavic languages, with the exception of Rus-