Overview
Browne's research interests include Slavic and general linguistics. His specialty within Slavic is the Serbo-Croatian area (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian). He has also worked on or taught other South Slavic languages, Polish, Russian and Belarusian, the Balkan language area, Old Church Slavonic, Slavic historical grammar, comparative and contrastive grammar, and pedagogical grammar.
In general linguistics, Browne has done research in syntax, morphology, and phonology, in particular relative and other subordinate clauses, interrogatives, clitic rules, word order, reflexive verbs, accent rules, etc., usually using Slavic material.
Research Focus
- Slavic Linguistics
- General Linguistics
- Serbo-Croatian Area (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian)
- Slavic Studies
- Medieval Studies
- Syntax
- Morphology
- Phonology
Publications
- . in P. Arkadiev, J. Pakerys, I. Seskauskiene, V. Zeimantiene, eds., . Vilnius: Vilnius University Press, 2021.
- , Balkanistica 23, 2010
- [The order of clitics in the language of the Vojvodina Rusins], Å ±¹±ð³Ù±ô´Ç²õ³¦ XLIV.3, July-September 2008
- W. Browne and Theresa Alt, , SEELRC (Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 2004
- Serbo-Croat, in The Slavonic Languages, B. Comrie and G. Corbett (eds.), London, 1993.
- Turkisms in the Balkans: True and false friends, in Languages in Contact, Zagreb, 1990.
- . Zagreb, 1986.
- Numerous articles in Contrastive Analysis of English and Serbo-Croatian I, R. Filipovic (ed.), Zagreb, 1975.
- (1975, reprinted in Journal of Slavic Linguistics 12.1-2, 2004)
- , in R. Brecht and C. Chvany, eds., Slavic Transformational Syntax, Ann Arbor 1974
