Each venture a new beginning

"This volume of essays in Slavic linguistics is presented in honor of Laura A. Janda, Professor of Russian Linguistics at the University of Tromsø, Norway. The majority of the contributions apply the theoretical methodology of cognitive linguistics, of which Janda is one of the world's foremost practitioners, though other contributions could be properly characterized as "fellow travelers", applying different methodologies to achieve similar insights into the semantic structure of Slavic languages"--