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This volume unifies a wide breadth of interdisciplinary studies examining the expression of motion in Slavic languages. The contributors to the volume have joined in the discussion of Slavic motion talk from diachronic, typological, comparative, cognitive, and acquisitional perspectives with a particular focus on verbs of motion, the nuclei of the lexicalization patterns for encoding motion. Motion verbs are notorious among Slavic linguists for their baffling idiosyncratic behavior in their lexical, semantic, syntactical, and aspectual characteristics. The collaborative effort of this volume is aimed both at highlighting and accounting for the unique properties of Slavic verbs of motion and at situating Slavic languages within the larger framework of typological research investigating cross-linguistic encoding of the motion domain. Due to the multiplicity of approaches to the linguistic analysis the collection offers, it will suitably complement courses and programs of study focusing on Slavic linguistics as well as typology, diachronic and comparative linguistics, semantics, and second language acquisition.

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Author:   Victoria Hasko (University of Georgia) ,  Renee Perelmutter (University of Kansas)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   115
Weight:   0.890kg
ISBN:  

9789027205827

ISBN 10:   9027205825
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   06 May 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Contributors; 2. Introduction. Verbs of motion in Slavic languages: Paths for exploration (by Hasko, Victoria); 3. Part I. Diachrony of motion expressions; 4. Chapter 1. Clause and text organization in early East Slavic with reference to motion and position expressions (by Turner, Sarah); 5. Chapter 2. Indeterminate motion verbs are denominal (by Nichols, Johanna); 6. Chapter 3. Common Slavic indeterminate verbs of motion were really manner-of-motion verbs (by Dickey, Stephen M.); 7. Chapter 4. PIE inheritance and word-formational innovation in Slavic motion verbs in -i- (by Greenberg, Marc L.); 8. Part II. Synchronic approaches to aspect; 9. Chapter 5. Perfectives from indeterminate motion verbs in Russian (by Janda, Laura A.); 10. Chapter 6. Aspects of motion: On the semantics and pragmatics of indeterminate aspect (by Kagan, Olga); 11. Chapter 7. Verbs of motion under negation in Modern Russian (by Perelmutter, Renee); 12. Part III. Typological approach to the study of Slavic verbs of motion; 13. Chapter 8. Semantic composition of motion verbs in Russian and English: The case of intra-typological variability (by Hasko, Victoria); 14. Chapter 9. Motion events in Polish: Lexicalization patterns and the description of Manner (by Kopecka, Anetta); 15. Chapter 10. The importance of being a prefix: Prefixal morphology and the lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-Croatian (by Filipovic, Luna); 16. Chapter 11. Variation in the encoding of endpoints of motion in Russian (by Nikitina, Tatiana); 17. Chapter 12. Verbs of rotation in Russian and Polish (by Rakhilina, Ekaterina V.); 18. Chapter 13. Aquamotion verbs in Slavic and Germanic: A case study in lexical typology (by Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria); 19. Chapter 14. Metaphorical walking: Russian idti as a generalized motion verb (by Nesset, Tore); 20. Chapter 15. Russian verbs of motion: Second language acquisition and cognitive linguistics perspectives (by Gor, Kira); 21. Author index; 22. Language index; 23. Subject index

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