Current studies in Slavic linguistics / edited by Irina Kor Chahine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chahine, Irina Kor.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 146.

Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; volume 146

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavic languages--Grammar.

Slavic languages.

Slavic languages--History.

Slavic languages--Syntax.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The paper presents a research tool for studying semantic change and polysemy patterns in Russian adjectives and adverbs. It is based on a corpus analysis of high-frequency polysemous units. For each of them we describe the meanings it can have, assign to each meaning a corresponding taxonomic class, identify types of semantic shifts between individual meanings (metaphor, metonymy; besides, a full-scale approach reveals non-canonical cases of semantic shifts), describe context conditions of these shifts (semantic and grammatical restrictions on co-occurring words). The results gained from this

Contents:

Current Studies in Slavic Linguistics; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of contributors; Abbreviations; Impersonals and beyond in Slavic; 1. Impersonal sentences: A problem of definition; 2. The issue of subject; 3. Evolution of impersonal sentences in Russian and across other Slavic languages; 4. Impersonal and indefinite subject; 5. Impersonal and related constructions; 6. The role of lexis; 6.1 Interaction between lexis and grammar; 6.2 Analysis of lexical meaning; Acknowledgements; References; SECTION I. Morphosyntax; Binding and morphology revisited

1. The problem and its original solution 2. A conceptual challenge; 3. Some Slavic data; 3.1 Back to Russian; 3.2 Polish; 3.3 Czech; 3.4 Bulgarian; 4. Conclusion; References; Possessor Raising and Slavic clitics; 1. Possessor Raising and possessive shift; 2. Possessivity: Semantics and syntax; 3. PR and external Dative possessor; 4. Slavic possessive clitics; Conclusions; References; The Slavonic languages and the development of the antipassive marker; 1. Introduction; 2. Definition of the antipassive construction; 3. Antipassive in accusative languages

4. Distribution of the antipassive construction 5. The antipassive construction in accusative languages; 6. On dedicated markers; 7. Polyfunctional antipassive marker in ergative languages; 8. The antipassive marker in accusative languages; 8.1 Polyfunctional antipassive marker in Slavonic languages; 8.2 Dedicated antipassive marker in Nahuatl; 8.3 The nature of the middle; 9. Conclusion; Abbreviations; References; Clitic SE in Romance and Slavonic revisited; 1. SE-Puzzles; 2. Clearing the ground: SECL in Romance and Slavonic; 2.1 The role of SECL; 2.2 The nature of SECL

2.2.1 How reflexive is the reflexive clitic? 2.2.2 Relevance of phi-features; 2.3 Categorial Status of SECL; 3. The role of SECL in the derivation of reflexives; 3.1 First merging SECL in an argument position; 3.2 The Analysis: Clitics and proxy-readings; 3.3 First-merging SECL in a non-argument position; 3.4 Discussion; 4. Deriving se-passives; 5. Summary and conclusion; References; SECTION II.Syntactical relations; The lazy speaker and the fascination of emptiness; 1. Introduction; 2. A first overview; 2.1 Referential ellipses; 2.2 Referential zeroes; 2.3 Verb omission

3. General assessment: Economy vs. implicitness4. The impact on politeness management; 5. A glimpse at history: Avvakum's Žizneopisanie; 6. A first comparison to Polish and Czech; 7. Conclusions; Abbreviations; References; Is the Polish verb iść an auxiliary to be?; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Polish future tenses; 1.2 Auxiliarization - a case of grammaticalization; 2. How the motion verb iść is special; 3. Evidence of ongoing auxiliarization; 3.1 Pragmatic ambiguity in context; 3.2 Semantic bleaching (desemanticization); 3.2.1 Releasing selection constraints; 3.2.2 Loss of grammatical properties

4. Semantics of the auxiliarized iść

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027270962

9027270961

OCLC:

864747358