Aspects of Nominal Determination in Old Church Slavic
Title | Aspects of Nominal Determination in Old Church Slavic PDF eBook |
Author | Michael S. Flier |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2012-02-13 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110888378 |
Aspects of Nominal Determination in Old Church Slavonic
Title | Aspects of Nominal Determination in Old Church Slavonic PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Stephen Flier |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1974 |
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The Slavonic Languages
Title | The Slavonic Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Professor Greville Corbett |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 1056 |
Release | 2003-09-01 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1136861440 |
In this scholarly volume, each of the living Slavonic languages are analysed and described in depth, together with the two extinct languages - Old Church Slavonic and Polabian. In addition, the various alphabets of the Slavonic languages - particularly Roman, Cyrillic and Glagolitic - are discussed, and the relationships of the Slavonic languages to other Indo-European languages and to one another, are explored. The last chapter provides an account of those Slavonic languages in exile, for example, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech and Slovak in the USA. Each language-chapter is written by an expert in the field, in a format designed for comparative study. Information on each language includes: an introductory description of social context and development (where appropriate); a discussion of phonology; a detailed presentation of synchronic morphology, noting major historical developments; comprehensive treatment of syntactic properties; a discussion of vocabulary; an outline of main dialects; and an extensive bibliography, listing English and other sources.
Old Russian Possessive Constructions
Title | Old Russian Possessive Constructions PDF eBook |
Author | Hanne Martine Eckhoff |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2011-10-27 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110255049 |
This book is a detailed study of the possessive semantic space within the framework of construction grammar. Using corpus data from Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian, the book uses semantic maps to document the relationship between form and meaning in a set of semantically closely related syntactic constructions that can all express adnominal possession and all partially overlap. The book also traces the development of these constructions from the earliest Slavic attestations towards Modern Russian, thus also using the semantic maps as a diachronic tool. This approach results in a much improved analysis of the data at hand: The competing possessive constructions are treated as partly synonymous constructions in the same semantic space. Changes are then seen to follow paths in this space. The constructionist perspective also allows discerning the relative contributions of the possessor nominal, the possessee nominal and properties of the constructions themselves. The book is a contribution to Slavic historical linguistics, to the general understanding of adnominal possession and to forwarding functionalist approaches to syntactic change.
All Things Morphology
Title | All Things Morphology PDF eBook |
Author | Sedigheh Moradi |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 449 |
Release | 2021-08-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027259747 |
This book provides a view of where the field of morphology has been and where it is today within a particular theoretical framework, gathering up new and representative work in morphology by both eminent and emerging scholars, and touching on a very wide range of topics, approaches, and theoretical points of view. These seemingly disparate articles have a common touchstone in their focus on a word-based, paradigmatic approach to morphology. The chapters in this book elaborate on these basic themes, from the further exploration of paradigms, to studies involving words, stems, and affixes, to examinations of competition, inheritance, and defaults, to investigations of morphomes, to ways that morphology interacts with other parts of the language from phonology to sociolinguistics and applied linguistics. The editors and contributors dedicate this volume to Prof. Mark Aronoff for his profound influence on the field.
Constructions with Lexical Repetitions in East Slavic
Title | Constructions with Lexical Repetitions in East Slavic PDF eBook |
Author | Mikhail Kopotev |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2024-07-01 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 3111165809 |
Repetition is a well-studied phenomenon in morphology and lexicology but has received less attention on the syntactic level. The book sheds light on syntactic constructions with lexical repetition in East Slavic languages. Several contributions address syntactic constructions that have developed in form and meaning in accordance with general tendencies found in many languages, for example, English Boys will be boys. However, most chapters focus on constructions that resist typological explanation, for example Rus. Беда так беда ‘trouble- nom.sg so trouble- nom.sg’, Ukr. дурень дурнем ‘fool- nom.sg fool- ins.sg’. .
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Rzhevsky |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 439 |
Release | 2012-04-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107002524 |
A fully updated new edition of this overview of contemporary Russia and the influence of its Soviet past.