Cognitive paths into the Slavic Domain

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ISBN: 9783110196207 | 3110196204
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/14/2007

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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 cognitive linguistic frameworks, making the volume a worthwhile read for Slavic and cognitive linguists alike.

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Why cognitive linguists should care about the Slavic languages and vice versa	p. 1
The nominal system: the meaning of case
Nominative and instrumental variation of adjectival predicates with the Russian copula byt': reference time, limitation, and focalization	p. 21
Why double marking in the Macedonian dativus sympatheticus?	p. 55
The verbal system: the meaning of tense, aspect and mood
What makes Russian bi-aspectual verbs special?	p. 83
Perfectives, imperfectives and the Croatian present tense	p. 111
Conflicting epistemic meanings of the Polish aspectual variants in past and in future uses: are they a vagary of grammar?	p. 149
Conjunctions, verb forms, and epistemic stance in Polish and Serbian predictive conditionals	p. 181
The sentential system: non-archetypal event conceptions
Degrees of event integration. A binding scale for [Vfin Vinf] structures in Russian	p. 221
The 'impersonal' impersonal construction in Polish. A Cognitive Grammar analysis	p. 257
Changing language: category shifting
A Frame Semantic account of morphosemantic change: the case of Old Czech verici	p. 291
A prototype account of the development of delimitative po- in Russian	p. 329
The rise of an epistemic pragmatic marker in Balkan Slavic: an exploratory study of nesto	p. 375
Motivating language: iconicity in language
Iconicity and linear ordering of constituents within Polish NPs	p. 411
Discourse-aspectual markers in Czech sound symbolic expressions: Towards a systematic analysis of sound symbolism	p. 431
Subject index	p. 459
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