Case in Russian
A sign-oriented approach
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This volume presents an analysis of Russian case from a sign-oriented perspective. The study was inspired by William Diver’s analysis of Latin case and follows the spirit of the Columbia School of linguistics. The fundamental premise that underlies this volume is that language is a communicative tool shaped by human behavior.
In this study, case is viewed as a semantic entity. Each case is assigned an invariant meaning within a larger semantic system, which is validated through numerous examples from spoken language and literary texts to illustrate that the distribution of cases is semantically motivated and defined by communicative principles that can be associated with human behavior.
[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 70] 2015. xiii, 182 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Abbreviations | p. xi
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Transliteration | p. xiii
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Introduction | pp. 1–6
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Chapter 1. Columbia School theory | pp. 7–15
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Chapter 2. Previous analyses of case | pp. 17–51
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Chapter 3. The System of Contribution | pp. 53–80
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Chapter 4. The System of Involvement | pp. 81–105
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Chapter 5. Cases and prepositions | pp. 107–145
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Chapter 6. Text analysis | pp. 147–165
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Concluding remarks | p. 167
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References
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Index of names | pp. 179–180
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Suject index | pp. 181–182
Cited by
Cited by 2 other publications
Durst-Andersen, Per & Elena Lorentzen
2017. Pure case and prepositional case in Russian. Russian Linguistics 41:2 ► pp. 177 ff. 
Durst-Andersen, Per & Elena Lorentzen
2018. The Russian Locative and Accusative and Their Relation to Time and Space. Scando-Slavica 64:2 ► pp. 200 ff.
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF/2AGR: Linguistics/Russian
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General