. Young Scholars Conference “Slavic World: Community and Diversity”. Moscow, 20‒21 May 2025. “Linguistics” Section

Abstract

This year, young scholars from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ufa, Regensburg (Germany) took part in the work of the Linguistics section. Presentations on current issues of Slavic linguistics were divided into four thematic blocks. The first block was devoted to the issues of lexicology and onomastics. It consisted of two presentations: one focused on issues of lexicology and onomastics and comprised two presentations: one dealt with the semantics of the word sъstavъ, found in records of chancery documentation from the 16th–17th centuries; the second focused on the comparison of Slavic and Latin doublets in the church Romanian language. The presentations in the second thematic panel covered Slavic ethnolinguistics and folklore. The subject of the scholars' interest were the motifs of folk songs from Krasny Yar village, the image of "kikimora" in Russian mythological dictionaries, comparative constructions using color meanings in Balkan languages, and the names of characters in Czech incantations. The third thematic block dealt with the functional aspects of grammar and vocabulary of Slavic languages. It featured presentations on the variation of forms of prefixed pronominal adverbs with spatiotemporal semantics in the dialect of Rogovatoe village, on licensing contexts for non-referential indefinite pronouns in Slavic languages, on the intermittent softening type of lexical aspect of verbs in Russian and Serbian/Croatian, on the phenomenon of "new" syncretism in the Serbian lexical system, on the features of agreement and phenomena of feminization at the syntactic level in the modern Slovenian language. The final fourth thematic block was devoted to the problems of Slavic sociolinguistics. The topics of the reports were diverse: the language identity of Bunjevci in the Bačka area, the nominal formulas of Serbian obituary notice, the structural features of Czech-English code switching in computer-mediated communication; two reports on field studies of the language and culture of the Slavic diaspora in Latin America: one was dedicated to the descendants of Czech and Slovak immigrants in the Argentine province of Chaco, and the other was about Slavic diasporas of Chile, Argentina and Paraguay.

Received 8 July 2025

Revised 1 September 2025

Accepted 4 October 2025

For citation: Markadeev, G. A., 2025. Young Scholars Conference “Slavic World: Community and Diversity”. Moscow, 20‒21 May 2025. “Linguistics” Section. Slavic World in the Third Millennium, 20 (3–4), pp. 377–384. https://doi.org/10.31168/2412-6446.2025.20.3-4.20