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An article comparing the linguistics of Czech to those of Russian is presented in which the author discusses an allegedly unique use of the imperfect aspect case of Czech in the description of events called the Contextually-Conditioned Imperfective Past (CCIP). Information is offered on the author's research in the Czech National Corpus for verb constructions using this particular construction and figures on the frequency of such constructions in literary, technical, and journalistic texts written in Czech.

The article discusses and critiques the philosophical concept of durée (duration), as developed by French philosopher Henri Bergson, from the perspective of Slavic linguistics. Departing from a comparative grammatical analysis of tenses and aspects of verbs in Slavic languages, the author suggests that Bergson's duration concept ought to be replaced with the notion of process as a better way to allow philosophical linguistics to describe time perception and time perspective. Related ideas suggested by philosopher Paul Bolberitz are also discussed.

A report is offered from the 21st Convention of Young Slavists in Göttingen, Germany, September 13 to 15, 2012. The author discusses the theories on Slavic linguistics including the use of the Belarusian verb "mec'," instances of adoption of English and jargon into Croatian, and the aspect of Russian verbs.