| Description |
1 online resource (x, 392 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Studies in language companion series (SLCS), 0165-7763 ; v. 115 |
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Studies in language companion series ; v. 115. 0165-7763
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| Contents |
Contributors -- Introduction: verbs of motion in Slavic languages: paths for exploration / Victoria Hasko and Renee Perelmutter -- Part I. Diachrony of motion expressions: 1. Clause and text organization in early East Slavic with reference to motion and position expressions / Sarah Turner -- 2. Indeterminate motion verbs are denominal / Johanna Nichols -- 3. Common Slavic 'indeterminate' verbs of motion were really manner-of-motion verbs / Stephen M. Dickey -- 4. PIE inheritance and word-formational innovation in Slavic motion verbs in -i- / Marc L. Greenberg -- Part II. Synchronic approaches to aspect: 5. Perfectives from indeterminate motion verbs in Russian / Laura A. Janda -- 6. Aspects of motion: On the semantics and pragmatics of indeterminate aspect / Olga Kagan -- 7. Verbs of motion under negation in modern Russian / Renee Perelmutter -- Part III. Typological approach to the study of Slavic verbs of motion: 8. Semantic composition of motion verbs in Russian and English: The case of intra-typological variability / Victoria Hasko -- 9. Motion events in Polish: Lexicalization patterns and the description of Manner / Anetta Kopecka -- 10. The importance of being a prefix: Prefixal morphology and the lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-Croatian / Luna Filipović -- 11. Variation in the encoding of endpoints of motion in Russian / Tatiana Nikitina -- 12. Verbs of rotation in Russian and Polish / Ekaterina V. Rakhilina -- 13. Aquamotion verbs in Slavic and Germanic: A case study in lexical typology / Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Dagmar Divjak and Ekaterina Rakhilina -- 14. Metaphorical walking: Russian idti as a generalized motion verb / Tore Nesset -- 15. Russian verbs of motion: Second language acquisition and cognitive linguistics perspectives / Kira Gor [and others] |
| Summary |
This volume unifies a wide breadth of interdisciplinary studies examining the expression of motion in Slavic languages. The contributors to the volume have joined in the discussion of Slavic motion talk from diachronic, typological, comparative, cognitive, and acquisitional perspectives with a particular focus on verbs of motion, the nuclei of the lexicalization patterns for encoding motion. Motion verbs are notorious among Slavic linguists for their baffling idiosyncratic behavior in their lexical, semantic, syntactical, and aspectual characteristics. The collaborative effort of this volume i |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Slavic languages -- Verb
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Motion -- Terminology
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Slavic Languages (Other)
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Motion
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Slavic languages -- Verb
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| Genre/Form |
Terminology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hasko, Viktoria
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Perelmutter, Renee
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| LC no. |
2009044948 |
| ISBN |
9789027288639 |
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9027288631 |
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9789027205827 |
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9027205825 |
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