Gary H. Toops
Professor Gary H. Toops received his Ph.D. in Russian and Slavic linguistics and early Slavic literature from Yale University in 1985. Since 1977, he has periodically received formal training in Russian at the Leningrad (i.e., St. Petersburg), Moscow, and Petrozavodsk State Universities. He has been teaching at Wichita State University since 1989. His research interests include questions of syntax and morphosemantics of the verb in Bulgarian, Czech, German, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, and Upper Sorbian. For more information see Dr. Toops's website.
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Selected Works
This collection includes research publications of Gary H. Toops
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Gary H. Toops In Memoriam
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Russian давать + infinitive: 'to give', 'to let', or 'to have'?
(American Council of Teachers of Russian, 1991)This article examines a variety of sentence types, differing by virtue of the presence/absence of certain syntactic constituents (direct/indirect object) and the semantic properties of those constituents (animacy, physical ... -
Causativity in Bulgarian
(Verlag Otto Sagner, 1984)Author discusses the grammatical means of which Bulgarian disposes for the expression of causative relations as well as its similarity and differences with other Slavic languages. -
The morphosyntax of causative relations in Czech and Upper Sorbian: a contrastive, descriptive analysis
(MODERN HUMANITIES RES ASSN, 2013-07)The article provides a contrastive, descriptive analysis of the morphosyntax of causative relations in two closely related West Slavic languages — contemporary Czech and Upper Sorbian. Four types of causative constructions ... -
Book Review: The grammatical system of Upper Sorbian slang on language contact
(American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, 2010) -
Book Review: Current trends in Caucasian, East European and inner Asian linguistics: Papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson.
(American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, 2004) -
Book Review: Building up aspect a study aspect and related categories in Bulgarian with parallels in English and French
(American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, 2009) -
Book Review: Bildung, Bedeutung und Gebrauch des russischen Verbalaspekts (Hans Schlegel, 2002/2005)
(American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, 2006)Review of the book: Hans Schlegel. Bildung, Bedeutung und Gebrauch des russischen Verbalaspekts. Teil 1: Theoretische Grundlagen (Lehrbuch). / Teil 2: Informationen, Aufgaben und Ubungen. Specim ina philologiae slavicae, ... -
Book Review: Development of Slavic literary languages, diglossia, gender: Literary activity by women and standardization processes in the Slavic area
(American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, 2005-06) -
Book Review: Language behaviour and ethnic identity: Sorbian schools at the turn of the century.
(American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, 2006) -
Book Review: Czech thoroughly and systematically. A textbook
(American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, 2007) -
Vocative forms and vowel reduction in Bulgarian
(Verlag Otto Sagner, 1986) -
Causative constructions in the Upper Sorbian literary language
(Verlag Otto Sagner, 1993)Author examines the syntax and semantics of the four types of causative constructions in the Upper Sorbian literary language. -
Book review: Wilma Rethage. Strukturelle Besonderheiten des Russischen in Deutschland: Kontaktlinguistische und soziolinguistische Aspekte (Munich; Beriin: Verlag Otto Sagner, 2012.)
(The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, 2012)This 165th volume in the well-known and long-standing series "Specimina Philologiae Slavicae" represents the published version of a doctoral dissertation defended in 2010 by Wilma Rethage (formerly Wilma B. G Schuster) ... -
Book Review: Selected writings on Slavic and general linguistics
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Causative constructions in colloquial vs. literary Upper Sorbian
(Verlag Otto Sagner, 2012-06-01)In this article author contrasts causative constructions in a specific, colloquial variety of Upper Sorbian with those occurring in the contemporary Upper Sorbian (USo) literary language. -
On contrasting the use of tense and aspect in Upper and Lower Sorbian
(Brockmeyer Verlag, 2009) -
Book review: Essais de syntaxe russe et contrastive de Marguerite Guiraud-Weber (Langues et Langages, n° 17, Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence, 2011)
(The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, 2011) -
Book review: Karlík a továrna na lingvistiku. Prof. Petru Karlíkovi k šedesátým narozeninám ((Brno: Host/Masarykova univerzita, 2010)
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Book review: Marek Nekula. System der Partikeln im Deutschen und Tschechischen: Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Abtönungspartikeln
(Slavica, 1997-03)Review of the book "System der Partikeln im Deutschen und Tschechischen: Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Abtönungspartikeln" by Marek Nekula.
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