New approaches to Slavic verbs of motion / edited by Victoria Hasko, Renee Perelmutter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hasko, Victoria.

Perelmutter, Renee.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; 115.

Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; 115

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavic languages--Verb.

Slavic languages.

Motion--Terminology.

Motion.

Physical Description:

x, 392 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The results of three experiments comparing the processing of verbs of motion by late second language learners, American college students of Russian, and early starters, heritage speakers of Russian, are interpreted within the image-schematic framework developed in cognitive linguistics: the cross-linguistic typological approach introduced by Leonard Talmy (1985, 2000), the extension of this approach to Russian developed by Tore Nesset (2008), and the "thinking for speaking" hypothesis by Dan Slobin (1996). The results of the study support the claim that the system of verbs of motion is not fully acquired even in highly proficient second language learners. They typically lag behind not only native speakers, but also heritage speakers at the same proficiency levels.

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 ... [et al.].

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612558764

9781282558762

1282558765

9789027288639

9027288631

OCLC:

642206502