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PREFACE
This volume of Linguistica is dedicated to the research in the field of generative 
linguistics. It contains a careful selection of academic articles which focus on con-
temporary developments in the generative approach to linguistic description. Parts 
of these articles were also presented at the 2015 Syntax, Phonology and Language 
Analysis Conference (SinFonIJA 8), held at the University of Ljubljana Faculty of 
Arts from September 24th–26th 2015, and at the 2014 Syntax, Phonology and Lan-
guage Analysis Conference (SinFonIJA 7), held at the University of Graz from Sep-
tember 25th–27th 2014.
The 22 papers are organized alphabetically. They are from various subfields of 
(generative) linguistics: phonology (Rebrus and Törkenczy; Szabó; Walter), seman-
tics (Büring; Kleiber; Alberti and Szabó; Zobel), syntax (Bošković; Munaro; Witkoś 
and Dziubała-Szrejbrowska), syntax-semantics interface (Borik; Cinque; Gruet-Skra-
balova; Ilkhanipour; Marelj), syntax-morphology interface (Farkas and Alberti; Tual) 
and experimental linguistics (Tóth and Csatár (experimental pragmatics), Csipak and 
Zobel (experimental semantics, corpus study), Pavlič (sign language syntax), Dočekal 
and Dotlačil; Leko et al.; and Stepanov, Mušič and Stateva (experimental syntax)). 
The authors come from universities and research institutes in 14 different countries: 
Austria (1 author), Bosnia and Herzegovina (8 authors), Czech Republic (1 author), 
France (2 authors), Germany (2 authors), Hungary (9 authors), Italy (2 authors), Iran (1 
author), the Netherlands (2 authors), Poland (2 authors), Slovenia (4 authors), Spain (1 
author), Turkey (1 author), and the United States of America (2 authors).
Every paper received sets of comments from two or three reviewers and was fur-
ther read by the editors. We would like to seize the opportunity and thank the fol-
lowing list of reviewers: Gábor Alberti, Boban Arsenijević, Aleš Bičan, Olga Borik, 
Stojan Bračič, Daniel Büring, Guglielmo Cinque, Luka Crnič, Eva Csipak, Mojmír 
Dočekal, Jakub Dotlačil, Anna Gazdik, Hana Gruet-Skrabalova, Sabina Halupka-
Rešetar, Veronika Hegedűs, Negin llkhanipour, Vadim Kimmelman, Judit Kleiber, 
Martin Krämer, Franc Marušič, Nataša Miličević, Petra Mišmaš, Nicola Munaro, 
Matic Pavlič, Ljiljana Progovac, Péter Rebrus, Branimir Stanković, Penka Stateva, 
Adrian Stegovec, Artur Stepanov, Balazs Suranyi, Ádám Szalontai, Aida Talić, Enikő 
Tóth, Barbara Vogt, Mary Ann Walter, Jacek Witkoś, Sarah Zobel, Rok Žaucer, and 
Sašo Živanović.
Ljubljana, November 2016 The Editors
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