Author: Yulia Zinova
Publisher: Language Science Press
ISBN: 3961102988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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This book addresses the complexity of Russian verbal prefixation system that has been extensively studied but yet not explained. Traditionally, different meanings have been investigated and listed in the dictionaries and grammars and more recently linguists attempted to unify various prefix usages under more general descriptions. The existent semantic approaches, however, do not aim to use semantic representations in order to account for the problems of prefix stacking and aspect determination. This task has been so far undertaken by syntactic approaches to prefixation, that divide verbal prefixes in classes and limit complex verb formation by restricting structural positions available for the members of each class. I show that these approaches have two major drawbacks: the implicit prediction of the non-existence of complex biaspectual verbs and the absence of uniformly accepted formal criteria for the underlying prefix classification. In this book the reader can find an implementable formal semantic approach to prefixation that covers five prefixes: za-, na-, po-, pere-, and do-. It is shown how to predict the existence, semantics, and aspect of a given complex verb with the help of the combination of an LTAG and frame semantics. The task of identifying the possible affix combinations is distributed between three modules: syntax, which is kept simple (only basic structural assumptions), frame semantics, which ensures that the constraints are respected, and pragmatics, which rules out some prefixed verbs and restricts the range of available interpretations. For the purpose of the evaluation of the theory, an implementation of the proposed analysis for a grammar fragment using a metagrammar description is provided. It is shown that the proposed analysis delivers more accurate and complete predictions with respect to the existence of complex verbs than the most precise syntactic account.
Author: James Gallant
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Languages : de
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Author: Olga Kagan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107092620
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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Proposes a new analytical approach to the semantics of Russian verbal prefixes, using modern theoretical tools to explore wide-ranging data.
Author: Laura A. Janda
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Languages : en
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Author: Libuse Jones
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Category : Czech language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Russian and Czech, like all Slavic languages, extensively use prefixation as a means of word-formation, particularly in the verbal system. Verbal prefixation results in a change of meaning, i.e., the prefixed verbs have a different meaning from the original non-prefixed verbs. Verbal prefixation also results in a change of verbal aspect, i.e., imperfective non-prefixed verbs become perfective with the addition of a verbal prefix. This change does not apply to non-prefixed perfective verbs. A contrastive analysis of the six most productive verbal prefixes in Russian and Czech, i.e., vy-, za-, po-, raz - (Czech roz-), o-/ob - and s-, confirms the claim that the lexical meaning of prefixed verbs is always different from that of their non-prefixed counterparts. Depending upon the basic lexical meaning of the prefix and the basic lexical meaning of the verb, the changes in meaning can vary from subtle modifications to more significant variations of the basic verb meaning. On the basis of the data presented in this thesis, there appears to be no justification for the claim that some prefixes have a purely grammatical meaning rather than their basic lexical meaning. The analysis of Russian and Czech verbal prefixation involving the six most productive prefixes also shows some significant differences in the degree of correspondence between the two languages. In the majority of cases, however, there is either no difference at all, or only a subtle difference, in the semantics of corresponding Russian and Czech prefixes.
Author: Laura A. Janda
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ISBN: 9780893574093
Category : Russian language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Peter O. Müller
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110246279
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 770
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This handbook comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. The five volumes contain 207 articles written by leading international scholars. The XVI chapters of the handbook provide the reader, in both general articles and individual studies, with a wide variety of perspectives: word-formation as a linguistic discipline (history of science, theoretical concepts), units and processes in word-formation, rules and restrictions, semantics and pragmatics, foreign word-formation, language planning and purism, historical word-formation, word-formation in language acquisition and aphasia, word-formation and language use, tools in word-formation research. The final chapter comprises 74 portraits of word-formation in the individual languages of Europe and offers an innovative perspective. These portraits afford the first overview of this kind and will prove useful for future typological research. This handbook will provide an essential reference for both advanced students and researchers in word-formation and related fields within linguistics.
Author: Alan Timberlake
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521772921
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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This book treats aspects of grammar of Russian, from writing, phonology and morphology to syntax and aspect.
Author: Mario Brdar
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027223866
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 371
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Cognitive Linguistics is not a unified theory of language but rather a set of flexible and mutually compatible theoretical frameworks. This volume is of interest to scholars and students wishing to inform themselves about the state and possible future developments of Cognitive Linguistics
Author: Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027286191
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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This volume presents new developments in cognitive grammar and explores its descriptive and explanatory potential with respect to a wide range of language phenomena. These include the formation and use of locationals, causative constructions, adjectival and nominal expressions of oriented space, morphological layering, tense and aspect, and extended uses of verbal predicates. There is also a section on the affinities between cognitive grammar an early linguistic theories, both ancient and modern.
