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.
Old Russian Possessive Constructions
Title | Old Russian Possessive Constructions PDF eBook |
Author | Hanne Martine Eckhoff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2007 |
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Pre-posed Possessive Constructions in Russian and Polish
Title | Pre-posed Possessive Constructions in Russian and Polish PDF eBook |
Author | Erik Richard Houle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2013 |
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ISBN | 9781303231537 |
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The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case
Title | The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case PDF eBook |
Author | Jóhanna Barðdal |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 2009-03-11 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027289921 |
The aim of this volume is to bring non-syntactic factors in the development of case into the eye of the research field, by illustrating the integral role of pragmatics, semantics, and discourse structure in the historical development of morphologically marked case systems. The articles represent fifteen typologically diverse languages from four different language families: (i) Indo-European: Vedic Sanskrit, Russian, Greek, Latin, Latvian, Gothic, French, German, Icelandic, and Faroese; (ii) Tibeto-Burman, especially the Bodic languages and Meithei; (iii) Japanese; and (iv) the Pama-Nyungan mixed language Gurindji Kriol. The data also show considerable diversity and include elicited, archival, corpus-based, and naturally occurring data. Discussions of mechanisms where change is obtained include semantically and aspectually motivated synchronic case variation, discourse motivated subject marking, reduction or expansion of case marker distribution, case syncretism motivated by semantics, syntax, or language contact, and case splits motivated by pragmatics, metonymy, and subjectification.
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.
The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Hoffmann |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2013-02-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199376638 |
The last decade has seen a rise in popularity in construction-based approaches to grammar. The various approaches within the rubric 'construction grammar' all see language as a network of constructions-pairings of form and meaning. Construction Grammar, as a kind of cognitive linguistics, differs significantly from mainstream generative grammar as espoused by Chomsky and his followers. Advocates of Construction Grammar see it as a psychologically plausible theory of human language. As such, it is capable of providing a principled account of language acquisition, language variation and language change. Research in Construction Grammar also includes multidisciplinary cognitive studies in psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and computational linguistics. The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar is the first authoritative reference work solely dedicated to Construction Grammar. Divided into five sections, the book will be an invaluable resource that students and scholars alike can turn to for a comprehensive account of current work on Construction Grammar, its theoretical foundations, and its applications to and relationship with other kinds of linguistic enquiry.
Slavic on the Language Map of Europe
Title | Slavic on the Language Map of Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Andrii Danylenko |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 523 |
Release | 2019-10-08 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110635178 |
Conceptually, the volume focuses on the relationship of the three key notions that essentially triggered the inception and subsequent realization of this project, to wit, language contact, grammaticalization, and areal grouping. Fully concentrated on the areal-typological and historical dimensions of Slavic, the volume offers new insights into a number of theoretical issues, including language contact, grammaticalization, mechanisms of borrowing, the relationship between areal, genetic, and typological sampling, conservative features versus innovation, and socio-linguistic aspects of linguistic alliances conceived of both synchronically and diachronically. The volume integrates new approaches towards the areal-typological profiling of Slavic as a member of several linguistic areas within Europe, including SAE, the Balkan Sprachbund and Central European groupings(s) like the Danubian or Carpathian areas, as well as the Carpathian-Balkan linguistic macroarea. Some of the chapters focus on structural affinities between Slavic and other European languages that arose as a result of either grammatical replication or borrowing. A special emphasis is placed on contact-induced grammaticalization in Slavic micro-languages