Example 1: Morphological and Lexical Ambiguity in S-Cr

morphonym	canonic form	morphological description
kose	kos ‘blackbird’	vocative,singular,masculine,noun
kose	kos ‘slanted’	genitive,singular,feminine,adjective
kose	kos ‘slanted’	accusative,plural,feminine,adjective
kose	kos ‘slanted’	vocative,plural,feminine,adjective
kose	kos ‘slanted’	nominative,plural,feminine,adjective
kose	kosa ‘hair/scythe’	genitive,singular,feminine,noun
kose	kosa ‘hair/scythe’	nominative,plural,feminine,noun
kose	kosa ‘hair/scythe’	accusative,plural,feminine,noun
kose	kosa ‘hair/scythe’	vocative,plural,feminine,noun
kose	kositi ‘scythe’	3rd person,plural,present,verb,affirmative

Example 2: Wider spread of inflectional markers in S-Cr than in English

	Adjective		Noun
	Singular	Plural	Sigular	Plural
Serbo-Croatian	visok	visoki	profesor	profesori
English	tall	tall	professor	professors

Example 3: Different morphosyntactic markers in S-Cr and in English

Serbo-Croatian:	Govorim Marku.	Pijem vodu.
	verb noun-Dat.Sg.	verb noun-Acc.Sg.
English:	I am talking to Marko.	I am drinking water.
	pronoun verb preposition noun	pronoun (S) verb (V) noun (O)

Example 4: Complex and unpredicatable repertoires of inflectional endings in S-Cr

	Singular	Example	Plural ^5 7	Example
Nom.	-0 ^8	automobil, sat, zec, vojnik, kralj, deo	-i ^3	automobili, satovi, delovi zečevi, vojnici, kraljevi
Gen.	-a	automobila, sata, zeca, vojnika, kralja, dela	-a	automobila, satova, zečeva, vojnika, kraljeva, delova
Dat.	-u	automobilu, satu, zecu, vojniku, kralju, dela	-ima ^3	automobilima, satovima, zečevima, vojnicima, kraljevima, delovima
Acc.	-0 ^2 8     -a	automobil, voz, deo zeca, vojnika, kralja	-e	automobile, satove, delove, zečeve, vojnike, kraljeve
Voc.	-e ^4 6     -u	autmobile, sate, dele zeče, vojniče, kralju	-i ^3	automobili, satovi, delovi zečevi, vojnici, kraljevi
Ins.	-om ^1 -em	automobilom, satom, zecom, vojnikom, delom, kraljem	-ima ^3	automobilima, satovima, delovima, zečevima, vojnicima, kraljevima
Loc.	-u	automobilu, satu, zecu, vojniku, kralju,^,delu	-ima ^3	automobilima, satovima, delovima, zečevima, vojnicima, kraljevima

Alternations:

1. hard stem:  -o... vs. soft stem:   -e...

vojnikom ‘with soldier’, stolom ‘with table’

    kraljem ‘with king’

2. animate: -a  vs. inanimate -0

   Vidim vojnika. ‘I see a soldier.’

   Vidim stol. ‘I see a table’

3. Alternation k,g,h:c,z,s

   k vs. c:

   vojnik ‘soldier’:vojnici ‘soldiers’,vojnicima ‘to soldiers’

   g vs. z:

   podvig ‘heroic act’:podvizi ‘heroic acts’, podvizima ‘to heroic acts’

   h vs. s: monarh ‘monarch’:monarsi ‘monarchs’,monarsima ‘to monarchs’

4. Hard stem –e and alternation k,g,h:č,ž,š

   k vs. č: vojnik ‘soldier’:vojniče ‘hey, soldier’

   g vs. ž: vrag ‘devil’:vraže ‘hey, devil’

   h vs. š: duh ‘ghost’:duše ‘hey, ghost’

   Soft stem -u

5. one syllable, hard stem: interfix -ov- stol ‘table’: stolovi ‘tables’

    one syllable, soft stem:  interfix -ev- kralj ‘king’: kraljevi ‘kings’

    more than two syllables: interfix -0-  kaput ‘coat’: kaput0i ‘coats

6. Alternation c,z:č,ž

   c vs. č: zec ‘hare’:zeče ‘hey, hare’

7. If interfix –ev-, then alternation c:č

   c vs. č: zec ‘hare’:zečevi ‘hares’

8. Alternation o:l

   o vs. l: deo ‘part’:dela ‘of part’

Example 5: Unpredictable word order in S-Cr

English: SVO Peter (S) hit (V) Paul (O) vs.

S-Cr:

SVO Petar (S) je udario (v) Pavla (O)

VSO Udario je (V) Petar (S) Pavla (O)

VOS Udario je (V) Pavla (O) Petar (O)

OVS Pavla (O) je udario (V) Petar (V)

Example 6: Syntactic pitfalls in Slavic

Category	Explanation	Example
Contained subject	Due to the pro-drop feature in Slavic languages, there is no nominal element but the properties of the subject can be inferred from the verb form	Radim u kući.
Coordinated subjects	Two subjects are coordinated with one predicate. This is signaled by certain conjunctions (e.g. S-Cr „i”) and constructions (e.g. Russian Nom + с + Ins)	Oтец с матерью ушли, Otac i majka su otišli
Non-nominal subjects	In clauses where there is a be-predicate, in the subject position ca be infinitive, adverb, or any other canonical form of any part of speech	Raditi je glupo.
Subject inversion	In certain focus/topic distribution configurations subject can be after the predicate.	Marka je udario Petar. (a ne ja)
Homonymous subject	There are some cases where two forms can be understood as subjects	Zemljotres je srušio grad.
No-subject situations	One number of constructions does not have a subject.	Grmi. Zuji mi u ušima.

Example 7: Long and intricate sentences in S-Cr

Пошто је током осамдесетих година утврђена таква реторика "краја" (а она је укључивала и крај уметности), поставља се питање да ли смо сасвим схватили поуке осамдесетих, или смо ово време, повезујући га и даље са проблематиком постмодернизма, разумели буквално, односно ван метафоричног склопа који је испуњавао како њен уметнички простор, тако и простор њеног теоријског, односно дискурзивног поља у којем се артикулисао велики епистемолошки обрт.