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Cognitive Paths into the Slavic Domain presents an overview of recent cognitive linguistic research on Slavic languages. It features diachronic and synchronic descriptions of nominal and verbal phenomena, event encoding strategies and discourse markers. The analyses are couched in a variety of cogni...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ;Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2008] ©2007 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cognitive linguistics research [clr] ;
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110198799 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110198799.jpg |
| Summary: |
Cognitive Paths into the Slavic Domain presents an overview of recent cognitive linguistic research on Slavic languages. It features diachronic and synchronic descriptions of nominal and verbal phenomena, event encoding strategies and discourse markers. The analyses are couched in a variety of cognitive linguistic frameworks, making the volume a worthwhile read for Slavic and cognitive linguists alike. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (471pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783110198799 |
| Index Number: | PG59 |
| CLC: | H744 |
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Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Why cognitive linguists should care about the -- Slavic languages and vice versa -- Part one. The nominal system: the meaning of -- case -- Nominative and instrumental variation of adjectival -- predicates with the Russian copula byt': reference time, limitation, and -- focalization -- Why double marking in the Macedonian dativus -- sympatheticus? -- Part two. The verbal system: the meaning of tense, -- aspect and mood -- What makes Russian bi-aspectual verbs -- special? -- Perfectives, imperfectives and the Croatian present -- tense -- Conflicting epistemic meanings of the Polish -- aspectual variants in past and in future uses: are they a vagary of -- grammar? -- Conjunctions, verb forms, and epistemic stance in -- Polish and Serbian predictive conditionals -- Part three. The sentential system: non-archetypal -- event conceptions -- Degrees of event integration. A binding scale for -- [VFIN VINF] structures in Russian -- The impersonal impersonal construction in Polish. -- A Cognitive Grammar analysis -- Part four. Changing language: category -- shifting -- A Frame Semantic account of morphosemantic change: -- the case of Old Czech v c -- A prototype account of the development of -- delimitative po- in Russian -- The rise of an epistemic pragmatic marker in Balkan -- Slavic: an exploratory study of ne to -- Part five. Motivating language: iconicity in -- language -- Iconicity and linear ordering of constituents -- within Polish NPs -- Discourse-aspectual markers in Czech sound symbolic -- expressions: Towards a systematic analysis of sound symbolism -- Backmatter |