Author: Roel Schuyt
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004654046
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 453

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Author: Raoul Nicolaas Schuijt
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 435

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Author: Nils B. Thelin
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027283362
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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In the light of growing insights into the universal temporal-semantic nature of aspectual distinctions, today's aspectology has broadened its attention from restrictedly event-defining functions of aspect on the sentence level towards its primary perspectival functions on the discourse/situation level. Hereby it attempts to relate these functions to each other in ways that stimulate consistently language processing on a more solid perceptual-conceptual and pragmatic basis. Reflecting in various ways this general tendency. The 13 papers collected in this volume are oriented to four fields of research: (1) Developmental properties of aspect and tense; (2) Ideo-pragmatic and conceptual-semantic correlates of aspect and the perspectival organisation of discourse; (3) Aspect, case and discourse; (4) and Aspect in literary discourse. The editor's Introduction gives a comprehensive survey of contemporary aspectology and its development towards a proper integration of discourse/situation conditions. Besides cross-linguistic considerations (including English), the languages analyzed specifically are Russian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, French and Finnish.

Author: Olav Mueller-Reichau
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110515857
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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The present volume offers a selection of papers on current issues in Slavic languages. It takes stock of the past 20 years of linguistic research at the Department of Slavic Studies at Leipzig University. Within these two decades, the scientific writing, teaching, and organization done in this Department strengthened the mode of research in formal description of Slavic languages, formed another center for this kind of linguistic research in the world, and brought about a remarkable amount of scientific output. The authors of this volume are former or present members of the Department of Slavic studies or academic friends. Based on the data from East, West, and South Slavic languages, the papers tackle issues of all grammatical subdisciplines in current models of description, compare parts of the grammars of Slavic languages, explain categories and phrases in Slavic languages that do not exist in present-day Indogermanic languages of Western Europe, and propose ways how to update the standard of lexicography in still less described Slavic languages. A study of language competence is dedicated to the actual requests on heritage speakers and shows how their abilities can be evaluated.

Author: Herbert Galton
Publisher: Skopje, Yougoslavie: Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts
ISBN:
Category : Slavic languages
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Author: Jaap Kamphuis
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900442203X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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In this volume Jaap Kamphuis provides a comprehensive and systematic corpus-based quantitative and qualitative study of verbal aspect in Old Church Slavonic.

Author: Rosanna Benacchio
Publisher: Firenze University Press
ISBN: 8864536973
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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One of the most widely debated topics in Slavic linguistics has always been verbal aspect, which takes different forms because of the various grammaticalization paths which led to its emergence. In the formation of the category of aspect in Slavic languages, a key role was played by the morphological mechanism of prefixation (a.k.a. preverbation), whereby the prefixes (which originally performed the function of markers of adverbial meanings) came to act as markers of boundedness. This volume contains thirteen articles on the mechanism of prefixation, written by leading international scholars in the field of verbal aspect. Ancient and modern Slavic varieties, as well as non-Slavic and even non-Indo-European languages, are represented, making the volume an original and significant contribution to Slavic as well as typological linguistics.

Author: Stephen M. Dickey
Publisher: Stanford Univ Center for the Study
ISBN: 9781575862361
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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This book presents the first detailed comparative analysis of verbal aspect in the Slavic languages.

Author: Dagmar Divjak
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110198797
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 473

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The volume presents an overview of recent cognitive linguistic research on Slavic languages. Slavic languages, with their rich inflectional morphology in both the nominal and the verbal system, provide an important testing ground for a linguistic theory that seeks to motivate linguistic structure. Therefore, the volume touches upon a wide range of phenomena: it addresses issues related to the semantics of grammatical case, tense, aspect, voice and word order, it looks into grammaticalization and language change and discusses sound symbolism. At the same time, the analyses presented address a variety of theoretically important issues. Take for example the role of virtual entities in language or that of iconic motivation in grammar, the importance of metaphor for grammaticalization or that of subjectification for motivating synchronic polysemy and diachronic language change, as well as the myriad of patterns available to encode events in a non-canonical way or to convey the speaker's epistemic stance with respect to the communicated content. In addition, the analyses are couched in a variety of cognitive linguistic frameworks, such as cognitive grammar, mental space theory, construction grammar, frame semantics, grammaticalization theory, as well as prototype semantics. All in all, the analyses presented in this volume enrich the understanding of established aspects of the cognitive model of language and may serve as catalysts for their further development and refinement, making the volume a worthwhile read for Slavic and cognitive linguists alike.

Author: Roman Jakobson
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9789027930293
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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"Roman Jakobson was a major contributor to Slavic and general linguistics and poetics for over half a century, and his worldwide influence continues undiminished. In the articles given here, there is a discussion of both the semantic and the formal aspects of language in the light of each other, since for him they are intrinsically connected"--Jacket.