Slavic Linguistics In A Cognitive Framework

Author : Marcin Grygiel,Laura A. Janda
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
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Release : 2011
Category : Linguistic models
ISBN : 3631612397

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Slavic Linguistics in a Cognitive Framework by Marcin Grygiel,Laura A. Janda Pdf

Cognitive Linguistics offers an enticing possibility to approach time-honored linguistic problems from a new standpoint and view them in a new dimension. Proving this theory, all contributions in this volume are Slavic-oriented and thoroughly grounded in the framework of Cognitive Linguistics. The volume is composed of three thematic sections - grammar, semantics and discourse analysis with applied linguistics - representing fields of interest and simultaneously corresponding to levels of linguistic organization. The book offers studies on completability as an important parameter in the description of the Russian aspect system, application of Langacker's theory of subjectification to the analysis of Russian perfective, interaction between aspect and modality in Slavic, morphological case architecture in Slovak, Czech dative-marked nominals, Russian instrumental of comparison, affirmation, possessive-locative constructions in Macedonian, lexical semantics, spoken discourse, metaphorical expressions in legal language and lexicography.

Author : Dagmar Divjak,Agata Kochanska
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110198799

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Cognitive Paths into the Slavic Domain by Dagmar Divjak,Agata Kochanska Pdf

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 : Stephen M. Dickey
Publisher : Stanford Univ Center for the Study
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1575862360

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Parameters of Slavic Aspect by Stephen M. Dickey Pdf

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

Author : Tanja Anstatt,Anja Gattnar,Christina Clasmeier
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823379690

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Slavic Languages in Psycholinguistics by Tanja Anstatt,Anja Gattnar,Christina Clasmeier Pdf

Psycholinguistics explores the anchoring of language in cognition. The Slavic languages are an attractive topic for psycholinguistic studies since their structural characteristics offer great starting points for the development of research on speech processing. The research of these languages with experimental methods is, however, still in its infancy. This book provides an insight into the current research within this field. On one hand, central topic is the question of how Slavic languages can contribute to psycholinguistic findings. On the other hand, all chapters introduce their respective psycholinguistic method and discuss it according to its usefulness and transferability to the Slavic languages. The researched languages are mainly Russian and Czech, however, other languages (e.g., Polish, Belarusian or Bulgarian) are touched upon as well. Main topics are the characteristics of the mental lexicon, multilingualism, word recognition, and sentence comprehension. Furthermore, several contributions address the issue of verbal aspect and aktionsarten as well as other grammatical categories.

Author : Joanna Łozinska
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004360358

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Path and Manner Saliency in Polish in Contrast with Russian by Joanna Łozinska Pdf

This book presents a contrastive analysis of the lexicalization of motion events in Polish in comparison with Russian. The study, set in the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, adopts a usage-based approach to language analysis.

Author : Marcin Grygiel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443892209

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Cognitive Approaches to Specialist Languages by Marcin Grygiel Pdf

Specialist languages, such as the languages of law, business, aviation, football, and politics, can be perceived as highly conventionalized, semi-natural and not fully autonomous communication codes limited to specific, and predominantly formal, situations. A large number of them can be best characterized by subject matter and semantic content, but the most important distinctive element in their make-up is the frame of context in which they are embedded. This volume discusses various ways of approaching the problems associated with the very broad phenomenon of specialist languages by means of the analytical mechanisms and theoretical conceptions developed within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics. The volume includes research carried out by world-renowned experts in the field.

Author : Annalisa Baicchi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031466021

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Constructional and Cognitive Explorations of Contrastive Linguistics by Annalisa Baicchi Pdf

Author : Ljiljana Šarić
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Slavic languages
ISBN : 3447058064

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Spatial Concepts in Slavic by Ljiljana Šarić Pdf

The focus of this book is how Slavic languages represent spatial relations, and how spatial cognition and perception influence the understanding and linguistic coding of nonspatial domains. Individual analyses concentrate on the semantics of selected prepositions and cases in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (B/C/S), providing a comparative perspective on other Slavic languages, primarily Russian and Polish. The opening analysis discusses the main theoretical notion - metaphorical extension - exemplifying the relation of spatial usages of linguistic items to non-spatial usages. This is followed by an analysis of the most basic spatial relations, "in-ness" and "on-ness." The meaning network of prepositions equivalent to on and in helps explain the meaning of the cases they combine with: the accusative and locative. Another crucial spatial relation, proximity, is taken into account in the semantic analysis of the B/C/S prepositions kod and pri, their Slavic equivalents, and cases they combine with: the genitive and locative. The next chapter deals with the spatial meaning of the dative case, examining dative's prepositional usages, the bare directional dative in B/C/S, and the semantic relation of the bare directional dative to other meaning domains of this case.

Author : Rosanna Benacchio,Alessio Muro,Svetlana Slavkova
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788864536972

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The role of prefixes in the formation of aspectuality by Rosanna Benacchio,Alessio Muro,Svetlana Slavkova Pdf

Author : Olav Mueller-Reichau,Marcel Guhl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110515855

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Aspects of Slavic Linguistics by Olav Mueller-Reichau,Marcel Guhl Pdf

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 : Shlomo Izre'el,Heliana Mello,Alessandro Panunzi,Tommaso Raso
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261533

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In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language by Shlomo Izre'el,Heliana Mello,Alessandro Panunzi,Tommaso Raso Pdf

What is the best way to analyze spontaneous spoken language? In their search for the basic units of spoken language the authors of this volume opt for a corpus-driven approach. They share a strong conviction that prosodic structure is essential for the study of spoken discourse and each bring their own theoretical and practical experience to the table. In the first part of the book they segment spoken material from a range of different languages (Russian, Hebrew, Central Pomo (an indigenous language from California), French, Japanese, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese). In the second part of the book each author analyzes the same two spoken English samples, but looking at them from different perspectives, using different methods of analysis as reflected in their respective analyses in Part I. This approach allows for common tendencies of segmentation to emerge, both prosodic and segmental.

Author : Peter Kosta
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
Page : 911 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0820465127

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Investigations into formal Slavic linguistics by Peter Kosta Pdf

"Formal Slavic Linguistics is concerned with explicit description of prosody, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, information structure and language acquisition or impairments of language (aphasia) of Slavic languages within a certain theoretical framework of Principles and Parameters (Chomsky 1995 passim). But the two parts also illustrate the diversity of approaches we use in attempting to reflect the entire range of subfields within a given theoretical framework of cognitive science.

Author : Franc Marušič,Rok Žaucer
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Formalization (Linguistics)
ISBN : 3631570090

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Studies in Formal Slavic Linguistics by Franc Marušič,Rok Žaucer Pdf

This book is concerned with explicit descriptions of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and with computational-linguistic aspects of Slavic languages, mostly within the Principles and Parameters framework, which situates linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences. Through the description of specific linguistic phenomena in Slavic languages, the papers in this volume contribute to the development of linguistic theory.

Author : Adam Głaz,Marnie L. Moist
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443852586

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Vantage Theory by Adam Głaz,Marnie L. Moist Pdf

The book is concerned with Vantage Theory (VT), a model of categorization proposed by the American linguist, anthropologist, and cognitive scientist, Robert E. MacLaury (1944–2004). It consists of three of his previously unpublished studies and five chapters by other authors. Vantage Theory views categorization as a process of vantage (point of view) construction by analogy to the way humans orient themselves in space-time. Originating in the domain of color, the theory was extended to cover other aspects of cognition and language. The chapters authored by MacLaury introduce the model, discuss the details of the analogy between space-time and categorization, and present four case studies. The remaining chapters present an overview of the existing literature on VT, locate the model against the broader background of psychological and cognitive research, and propose its application to novel data.

Author : Dirk Geeraerts,Herbert Cuyckens
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 1366 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199738632

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The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics by Dirk Geeraerts,Herbert Cuyckens Pdf

With 49 chapters written by experts in the field, this reference volume authoritatively covers cognitive linguistics, from basic concepts and models to practical applications.