New approaches to Slavic verbs of motion
By: edited by Victoria Hasko, Renee Perelmutter.
Contributors: Hasko, Victoria.; Perelmutter, Renee.
Series: Studies in language companion series -- v. 115
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9789027205827
Subjects: Slavic languages -- Verb; Motion -- Terminology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contributors; title: Introduction: verbs of motion in Slavic languages: paths for exploration / Victoria Hasko and Renee Perelmutter; title: Part I. Diachrony of motion expressions: 1. Clause and text organization in early East Slavic with reference to motion and position expressions / Sarah Turner; title: 2. Indeterminate motion verbs are denominal / Johanna Nichols; title: 3. Common Slavic 'indeterminate' verbs of motion were really manner-of-motion verbs / Stephen M. Dickey; title: 4. PIE inheritance and word-formational innovation in Slavic motion verbs in -i / Marc L. Greenberg; title: Part II. Synchronic approaches to aspect: 5. Perfectives from indeterminate motion verbs in Russian / Laura A. Janda; title: 6. Aspects of motion: On the semantics and pragmatics of indeterminate aspect / Olga Kagan; title: 7. Verbs of motion under negation in Modern Russian / Renee Perelmutter; title: Part III. Typological approach to the study of Slavic verbs of motion: 8. Semantic composition of motion verbs in Russian and English: The case of intra-typological variability / Victoria Hasko; title: 9. Motion events in Polish: Lexicalization patterns and the description of Manner / Anetta Kopecka; title: 10. The importance of being a prefix: Prefixal morphology and the lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-Croatian / Luna Filipovic; title: 11. Variation in the encoding of endpoints of motion in Russian / Tatiana Nikitina; title: 12. Verbs of rotation in Russian and Polish / Ekaterina V. Rakhilina; title: 13. Aquamotion verbs in Slavic and Germanic: A case study in lexical typology / Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Dagmar Divjak and Ekaterina Rakhilina; title: 14. Metaphorical walking: Russian idti as a generalized motion verb / Tore Nesset; title: 15. Russian verbs of motion: Second language acquisition and cognitive linguistics perspectives / Kira Gor, Svetlana Cook, Vera Malyushenkova and Tatyana Vdovina.