TY - BOOK AU - Bužarovska,Eleni AU - Dancygier,Barbara AU - Dickey,Stephen M. AU - Divjak,Dagmar AU - Fidler,Masako U. AU - Fried,Mirjam AU - Geld,Renata AU - Israeli,Alina AU - Janda,Laura A. AU - Kochanska,Agata AU - Kochańska,Agata AU - Mitkovska,Liljana AU - Słoń,Anna AU - Tabakowska,Elżbieta AU - Trnavac,Radoslava AU - Zovko Dinković,Irena TI - Cognitive Paths into the Slavic Domain T2 - Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , SN - 9783110196207 AV - PG59.D58 2007 U1 - 491.804 PY - 2008///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter Mouton, KW - Cognitive grammar KW - Slavic languages KW - Grammar KW - Kognitive Linguistik KW - Slawische Sprachen /Sprache KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh KW - Cognitive Linguistics KW - Slavic Languages N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of contents --; Why cognitive linguists should care about the --; Slavic languages and vice versa --; Part one. The nominal system: the meaning of --; case --; Nominative and instrumental variation of adjectival --; predicates with the Russian copula byt': reference time, limitation, and --; focalization --; Why double marking in the Macedonian dativus --; sympatheticus? --; Part two. The verbal system: the meaning of tense, --; aspect and mood --; What makes Russian bi-aspectual verbs --; special? --; Perfectives, imperfectives and the Croatian present --; tense --; Conflicting epistemic meanings of the Polish --; aspectual variants in past and in future uses: are they a vagary of --; grammar? --; Conjunctions, verb forms, and epistemic stance in --; Polish and Serbian predictive conditionals --; Part three. The sentential system: non-archetypal --; event conceptions --; Degrees of event integration. A binding scale for --; [VFIN VINF] structures in Russian --; The ‘impersonal’ impersonal construction in Polish. --; A Cognitive Grammar analysis --; Part four. Changing language: category --; shifting --; A Frame Semantic account of morphosemantic change: --; the case of Old Czech věřící --; A prototype account of the development of --; delimitative po- in Russian --; The rise of an epistemic pragmatic marker in Balkan --; Slavic: an exploratory study of nešto --; Part five. Motivating language: iconicity in --; language --; Iconicity and linear ordering of constituents --; within Polish NPs --; Discourse-aspectual markers in Czech sound symbolic --; expressions: Towards a systematic analysis of sound symbolism --; Backmatter; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198799 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110198799 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110198799/original ER -