Pre-posed Possessive Constructions in Russian and Polish
Title | Pre-posed Possessive Constructions in Russian and Polish PDF eBook |
Author | Erik Richard Houle |
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Pages | 176 |
Release | 2013 |
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ISBN | 9781303231537 |
*Please refer to dissertation for tables.
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.
The Expression of Possession in Medieval Russian Legal Language
Title | The Expression of Possession in Medieval Russian Legal Language PDF eBook |
Author | Ljiljana Duraskovic |
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Release | 2012 |
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Abstract: Russian legal-administrative documents from the early fourteenth through the mid-seventeenth century (Middle Russian) show extensive variation in expressing possessivity within the noun phrase. Possessor expressions can be conveyed by morphologically derived possessive adjectives, adnominal genitives, or by combinations of those constructions ("ungoverned" genitives). They can occur before, after, or surrounding the NP head. Previous research has claimed that possessivity was expressed exclusively by possessive adjectives except in cases in which the possessive adjectives could not be formed. In this study, I offer a critical view on the previous research. After providing a detailed explanations of the available possessive constructions, I demonstrate that choice of any given possessor expression is not just arbitrary, as implied by many earlier studies, but reflects factors present in the immediate or larger discourse context ---semantic (the relations that held between the possessor and the possessed entity); syntactic (the role of the noun phrase head denoting the possessed entity); and discourse-pragmatic (the position of the possessive construction vis-à-vis the verb; the informational status of the referents of the noun phrase head and possessor expression; and the genre of the document). I show that the internal structure of the semantic possessor definitely influences the choice of the construction: possessive adjectives are preferred when the possessor is a bare noun, a forename, or an unmodified title in apposition with a forename. By contrast, the adnominal genitive is overwhelmingly favored when the semantic possessor is an anaphoric pronoun, a patronymic, or a noun phrase consisting of modified nouns, anaphoric pronouns and patronymics. Mixed constructions are conventional when the possessor involves conjoined noun phrases with the same referent and when it involves several noun phrases in apposition. The main factors in the choice among the different adjectival possessive constructions are discourse-pragmatic. The possessor expression tends to be postposed when it conveys new information or when it is in contrastive focus with another possessor expression. It tends to be preposed when it represents established information or a unique, culturally given entity. It tends to occur as a split construction when all the constituents of the possessor expression carry the same informational weight. My work also shows that the adnominal genitive construction was not limited or restricted in use, as claimed in some previous research, but had its own tyical spheres of use. In fact, adnominal genitives represent the most frequent type of possessive construction in five out of the ten semantic groups that I used in classifying the data.
Morphosyntactic Convergence and Integration in Finland Russian
Title | Morphosyntactic Convergence and Integration in Finland Russian PDF eBook |
Author | Larisa Leisiö |
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Pages | 284 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Russian language |
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Generative Linguistics in Poland
Title | Generative Linguistics in Poland PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Przepiórkowski |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Polish language |
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Old Russian Possessive Constructions
Title | Old Russian Possessive Constructions PDF eBook |
Author | Hanne Martine Eckhoff |
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Pages | 340 |
Release | 2007 |
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Word-Formation
Title | Word-Formation PDF eBook |
Author | Peter O. Müller |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 793 |
Release | 2016-03-07 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110427516 |
This handbook comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. The five volumes contain 207 articles written by leading international scholars. The XVI chapters of the handbook provide the reader, in both general articles and individual studies, with a wide variety of perspectives: word-formation as a linguistic discipline (history of science, theoretical concepts), units and processes in word-formation, rules and restrictions, semantics and pragmatics, foreign word-formation, language planning and purism, historical word-formation, word-formation in language acquisition and aphasia, word-formation and language use, tools in word-formation research. The final chapter comprises 74 portraits of word-formation in the individual languages of Europe and offers an innovative perspective. These portraits afford the first overview of this kind and will prove useful for future typological research. This handbook will provide an essential reference for both advanced students and researchers in word-formation and related fields within linguistics.