LINGUIST List 22.4142 Sat Oct 22 2011 Books: Cog Sci/Semantics/Syntax: Eckhoff Editor for this issue: Danniella Hornby <daniellalinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Julia Ulrich , Old Russian Possessive Constructions: Eckhoff Message 1: Old Russian Possessive Constructions: Eckhoff Date: 20-Oct-2011 From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com> Subject: Old Russian Possessive Constructions: Eckhoff E-mail this message to a friend Title: Old Russian Possessive Constructions Subtitle: A Construction Grammar Approach Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 237 Published: 2011 Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton                 http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110255034-1 Author: Hanne Martine Eckhoff Electronic: ISBN: 9783110255041 Pages: 215 Price: Europe EURO 99.95 Hardback: ISBN: 9783110255034 Pages: 215 Price: Europe EURO 99.95 Abstract: This book is a detailed study of the possessive semantic space within the framework of construction grammar. Using corpus data from Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian, the book uses semantic maps to document the relationship between form and meaning in a set of semantically closely related syntactic constructions that can all express adnominal possession and all partially overlap. The book also traces the development of these constructions from the earliest Slavic attestations towards Modern Russian, thus also using the semantic maps as a diachronic tool. This approach results in a much improved analysis of the data at hand: The competing possessive constructions are treated as partly synonymous constructions in the same semantic space. Changes are then seen to follow paths in this space. The constructionist perspective also allows discerning the relative contributions of the possessor nominal, the possessee nominal and properties of the constructions themselves. The book is a contribution to Slavic historical linguistics, to the general understanding of adnominal possession and to forwarding functionalist approaches to syntactic change. Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science                             Discourse Analysis                             Historical Linguistics                             Semantics                             Syntax Subject Language(s): Russian (rus) Language Family(ies): Slavic Subgroup Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=57931 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cambridge University Press http://us.cambridge.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Emerald Group Publishing Limited http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ European Language Resources Association - ELRA http://www.elra.info. Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu Hodder Education http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.eu MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/ Morgan & Claypool Publishers Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/ Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com Pearson Linguistics http://www.pearsoned.co.uk/linguistics Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/ Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com/ Springer http://www.springer.com University of Toronto Press http://www.utpjournals.com/ Wiley-Blackwell http://www.wiley.com ---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ---------------------- Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm Graduate Linguistic Students' Association, Umass http://glsa.hypermart.net/ International Pragmatics Assoc. http://www.ipra.be Linguistic Association of Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT http://www.lotpublications.nl/ Pacific Linguistics http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ SIL International http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp University of Nebraska Press Utrecht institute of Linguistics http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ Page Updated: 22-Oct-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.