New approaches to Slavic verbs of motion - Hasko, Viktoria; Perelmutter, Renee (Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., 2010)
Contributors -- Introduction: verbs of motion in Slavic languages: paths for exploration / Victoria Hasko and Renee Perelmutter -- Part I. Diachrony of motion expressions: 1. Clause and text organization in early East Slavic with reference to motion and position expressions / Sarah Turner -- 2. Indeterminate motion verbs are denominal / Johanna Nichols -- 3. Common Slavic 'indeterminate' verbs of motion were really manner-of-motion verbs / Stephen M. Dickey -- 4. PIE inheritance and word-formational innovation in Slavic motion verbs in -i- / Marc L. Greenberg -- Part II. Synchronic approaches to aspect: 5. Perfectives from indeterminate motion verbs in Russian / Laura A. Janda -- 6. Aspects of motion: On the semantics and pragmatics of indeterminate aspect / Olga Kagan -- 7. Verbs of motion under negation in modern Russian / Renee Perelmutter -- Part III. Typological approach to the study of Slavic verbs of motion: 8. Semantic composition of motion verbs in Russian and English: The case of intra-typological variability / Victoria Hasko -- 9. Motion events in Polish: Lexicalization patterns and the description of Manner / Anetta Kopecka -- 10. The importance of being a prefix: Prefixal morphology and the lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-Croatian / Luna Filipović -- 11. Variation in the encoding of endpoints of motion in Russian / Tatiana Nikitina -- 12. Verbs of rotation in Russian and Polish / Ekaterina V. Rakhilina -- 13. Aquamotion verbs in Slavic and Germanic: A case study in lexical typology / Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Dagmar Divjak and Ekaterina Rakhilina -- 14. Metaphorical walking: Russian idti as a generalized motion verb / Tore Nesset -- 15. Russian verbs of motion: Second language acquisition and cognitive linguistics perspectives / Kira Gor ... [et al.].
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Keywords: Slavic languages -- Verb; Motion -- Terminology