Svetlana Sokolova
List of John Benjamins publications for which Svetlana Sokolova plays a role.
Articles
2022 Chapter 10. Analogy and contrast at the morphology-syntax interface: A case study of new Russian [N[N]] compounds Analogy and Contrast in Language: Perspectives from Cognitive Linguistics, Krawczak, Karolina, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Marcin Grygiel (eds.), pp. 303–340 | Chapter
This chapter brings together the issues of analogy and contrast through a perspective of linguistic borrowing. We analyze the integration of new [N[N]] compounds, borrowed from English into Russian (e.g. top-igrok ‘top player’). By discussing two corpus studies and two small experiments, we show… read more
2019 Compounds and culture: Conceptual blending in Norwegian and Russian Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication, Lu, Wei-lun, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda (eds.), pp. 257–274 | Article
This study explores compounds from the perspective of conceptual blending (conceptual integration), and argues that the meaning of compounds arises through the interaction of three levels: (i) input spaces established for the head and non-head components, (ii) a blended space involving… read more