Case in Russian : a sign-oriented approach / Alexandra Beytenbrat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beytenbrat, Alexandra, author.

Series:

Studies in functional and structural linguistics ; 70.

Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 1385-7916 ; 70

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian language--Case.

Russian language.

Russian language--Case grammar.

Russian language--Semantics.

Functionalism (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume presents an analysis of Russian case from a sign-oriented perspective. The study was inspired by William Diver's analysis of Latin case and follows the spirit of the Columbia School of linguistics. The fundamental premise that underlies this volume is that language is a communicative tool shaped by human behavior.In this study, case is viewed as a semantic entity. Each case is assigned an invariant meaning within a larger semantic system, which is validated through numerous examples from spoken language and literary texts to illustrate that the distribution of cases is semantically

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Abbreviations

Transliteration

Introduction

Chapter 1. Columbia School theory

Chapter 2. Previous analyses of case

Chapter 3. The System of Contribution

Chapter 4. The System of Involvement

Chapter 5. Cases and prepositions

Chapter 6. Text analysis

Concluding remarks

References

Index of names

Suject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Online version: Beytenbrat, Alexandra, author. Case in Russian

ISBN:

9789027268167

9027268169

OCLC:

910936264