New Approaches to Slavic Verbs of Motion
Editors
This volume unifies a wide breadth of interdisciplinary studies examining the expression of motion in Slavic languages. The contributors to the volume have joined in the discussion of Slavic motion talk from diachronic, typological, comparative, cognitive, and acquisitional perspectives with a particular focus on verbs of motion, the nuclei of the lexicalization patterns for encoding motion. Motion verbs are notorious among Slavic linguists for their baffling idiosyncratic behavior in their lexical, semantic, syntactical, and aspectual characteristics. The collaborative effort of this volume is aimed both at highlighting and accounting for the unique properties of Slavic verbs of motion and at situating Slavic languages within the larger framework of typological research investigating cross-linguistic encoding of the motion domain. Due to the multiplicity of approaches to the linguistic analysis the collection offers, it will suitably complement courses and programs of study focusing on Slavic linguistics as well as typology, diachronic and comparative linguistics, semantics, and second language acquisition.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 115] 2010. x, 392 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 13 April 2010
Published online on 13 April 2010
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Contributors | pp. ix–x
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Introduction. Verbs of motion in Slavic languages: Paths for explorationVictoria Hasko and Renee Perelmutter | pp. 1–11
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Part I. Diachrony of motion expressions
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Chapter 1. Clause and text organization in early East Slavic with reference to motion and position expressionsSarah Turner | pp. 15–45
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Chapter 2. Indeterminate motion verbs are denominalJohanna Nichols | pp. 47–65
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Chapter 3. Common Slavic “indeterminate” verbs of motion were really manner-of-motion verbsStephen M. Dickey | pp. 67–109
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Chapter 4. PIE inheritance and word-formational innovation in Slavic motion verbs in -i-Marc L. Greenberg | pp. 111–121
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Part II. Synchronic approaches to aspect
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Chapter 5. Perfectives from indeterminate motion verbs in RussianLaura A. Janda | pp. 125–139
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Chapter 6. Aspects of motion: On the semantics and pragmatics of indeterminate aspectOlga Kagan | pp. 141–162
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Chapter 7. Verbs of motion under negation in Modern RussianRenee Perelmutter | pp. 163–193
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Part III. Typological approach to the study of Slavic verbs of motion
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Chapter 8. Semantic composition of motion verbs in Russian and English: The case of intra-typological variabilityVictoria Hasko | pp. 197–223
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Chapter 9. Motion events in Polish: Lexicalization patterns and the description of MannerAnetta Kopecka | pp. 225–246
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Chapter 10. The importance of being a prefix: Prefixal morphology and the lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-CroatianLuna Filipović | pp. 247–266
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Chapter 11. Variation in the encoding of endpoints of motion in RussianTatiana Nikitina | pp. 267–290
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Chapter 12. Verbs of rotation in Russian and PolishEkaterina V. Rakhilina | pp. 291–316
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Chapter 13. Aquamotion verbs in Slavic and Germanic: A case study in lexical typologyMaria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Dagmar Divjak and Ekaterina V. Rakhilina | pp. 315–341
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Chapter 14. Metaphorical walking: Russian idti as a generalized motion verbTore Nesset | pp. 343–359
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Chapter 15. Russian verbs of motion: Second language acquisition and cognitive linguistics perspectivesKira Gor, Svetlana V. Cook, Vera Malyushenkova and Tatyana Vdovina | pp. 361–381
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Author index | p. 383
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Language index | p. 387
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Subject index | p. 389
“This important book is a model of in-depth exploration that is much needed: intra-typological, diachronic, and synchronic exploration of contrasting ways of encoding a particular semantic domain - in this case the domain of motion events. The various Slavic languages present contrasting but related solutions to the intersection of motion and aspect. And, as a group, they offer alternate forms of satellite-framed typology, in contrast to the more heavily studied Germanic languages of this general type. The up-to-date and interdisciplinary nature of the volume makes it essential reading in cognitive and typological linguistics.”
Dan I. Slobin, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
“A feast for the mind, with untold riches and variety: different approaches, patterns and usage, diachronic as well as synchronic, Slavic and not just Russian. All on a high intellectual level from capable scholars. Ful besy were the editors in every thing, That to the feste was appertinent.”
Alan Timberlake, Columbia University
“The fifteen essays that comprise New Approaches to Slavic Verbs of Motion make up a unique and engaging conversation on the subject of this important, yet highly idiosyncratic grammatico-lexical verbal group. This valuable volume goes well beyond any conventional study on the subject, and it makes a substantial contribution with its original, innovative, and comparative studies that truly are, as the co-editors contend, interdisciplinary. The contributors bring together analyses in Slavic languages that include Russian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Old Church Slavonic, and Early Russian, as well several other non-Slavic languages for comparison. The end product is an innovative, interdisciplinary, and intelligent compilation of relevant and useful essays that should be required reading for every Slavic linguist and anyone interested in teaching, learning, or understanding Slavic verbs of motion.”
Thomas J. Garza, University of Texas at Austin, in Slavic and East European Journal 56(1):144 - 145. (2012)
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2022. Chapter 1. Introduction. In The Typology of Physical Qualities [Typological Studies in Language, 133], ► pp. 1 ff.
Łaziński, Marek
2020. Wykłady o aspekcie polskiego czasownika,
Aurnague, Michel & Dejan Stosic
2019. Recent advances in the study of motion in French. In The Semantics of Dynamic Space in French [Human Cognitive Processing, 66], ► pp. 2 ff.
Stosic, Dejan
2019. Manner as a cluster concept. In The Semantics of Dynamic Space in French [Human Cognitive Processing, 66], ► pp. 142 ff.
Beliakov, Vladimir & Dejan Stosic
2018. Les verbes exprimant la manière de se déplacer en russe. Revue des études slaves 89:1-2 ► pp. 55 ff.
Goddard, Cliff, Anna Wierzbicka & Jock Wong
2016. “Walking” and “running” in English and German. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 14:2 ► pp. 303 ff.
Pavlenko, Aneta & Maria Volynsky
2015. Motion Encoding in Russian and English: Moving Beyond Talmy's Typology. The Modern Language Journal 99:S1 ► pp. 32 ff.
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General