The experience of space : the privileged role of spatial prefixation in Czech and Russian / Sarah Shull.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shull, Sarah, author.

Series:

Slavistische Beiträge ; Band 419.

Slavistische Beiträge ; Band 419

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian language--Suffixes and prefixes.

Russian language.

Russian language--Semantics.

Czech language--Suffixes and prefixes.

Czech language.

Czech language--Semantics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 239 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Experience of Space

Place of Publication:

München : Verlag Otto Sagner, 2012.

Summary:

The research presented here is aimed at carefully establishing the spatial meaning of prefixes. The primary motive for this research, however, is to evaluate the nature of the relation between spatial uses and abstract uses and to determine if abstract uses do indeed involve primarily spatial metaphor. A significant portion of the dissertation, therefore, is devoted to a discussion of the connection between spatial and abstract prefixation. A secondary purpose is to compare the spatial and abstract uses of prefixes in Czech and Russian, and to see whether differences in the verbal systems of these two languages can be correlated with underlying semantic differences at the spatial level.

Contents:

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations and Symbols

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: A typology o f Czech and Russian prepositions

Chapter 3: Source and Goal Prefixes in Czech and Russian

Chapter 4: Path Prefixes in Czech and Russian

Chapter 5: The prefix no-/po-

Chapter 6: Conclusion: Prefixes in space and abstraction

Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-239).