Case in Russian

A sign-oriented approach

Alexandra Beytenbrat

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ISBN 9789027215802 | EUR 99.00 | USD 149.00

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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
Published online on 20 August 2015

https://doi.org/10.1075/sfsl.70

Table of Contents

Abbreviations | p. xi

Transliteration | p. xiii

Introduction | pp. 1–6

Chapter 1. Columbia School theory | pp. 7–15

Chapter 2. Previous analyses of case | pp. 17–51

Chapter 3. The System of Contribution | pp. 53–80

Chapter 4. The System of Involvement | pp. 81–105

Chapter 5. Cases and prepositions | pp. 107–145

Chapter 6. Text analysis | pp. 147–165

Concluding remarks | p. 167

References

Index of names | pp. 179–180

Suject index | pp. 181–182

Cited by (2)

Cited by two 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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