| Description |
1 online resource (215 pages) |
| Series |
Linguistic & literary studies in Eastern Europe (LLSEE), 0165-7712 ; v. 35 |
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Linguistic & literary studies in Eastern Europe ; v. 35
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| Contents |
FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR: A FIELD APPROACH; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Table of contents; Chapter I. Functional grammar: subject matter and goals; General view; Types of functional-grammatical description; The concept of function; The interpretational component of language content; Semantic categories of grammar; Intercategorial relations of functions; Interaction of system and environment; THE CATEGORY OF ASPECT AND ITS ENVIRONMENT IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE; General survey; The types of limit; Internal and external limit; Real and potential limit |
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Explicit and implicit limitAbsolute and relative limit; Limitativity as a functional-semantic field; The varieties of limitative relations; Limitedness/unlimitedness of the action. The meanings of aspect.; Orientation towards limit (result)/Attainment of limit; Terminativity/Aterminativity; Limitative situations; Chapter II. Structural types of functional-semantic fields; The diversity of types of functional-semantic fields; Taxis in the Russian language; General survey; Restrictions specifying the sphere of taxis relations; Taxis and relative tense |
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The structure of the taxis field in the Russian languageThe meanings of dependent and independent taxis; The opposition of dependent and independent taxis; Is taxis a grammatical category?; The correlation of primary and secondary predication in dependent taxis constructions; Peripheral components of dependent taxis; The hierarchy of the expressive means of independent taxis; Taxis situations and their relations with aspectuality; Chapter III. Categorial situations; Introductory remarks; Dominant categorial situations |
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On the universal and concrete-language aspects of the concept of categorial situationAttitude to existing theories; Concluding remarks on categorial situations; Notes; References; Subject index; Name index |
| Summary |
Every grammar has to a greater or lesser extent a functional aspect. In this book, Bondarko provides a comprehensive discourse on the theoretical foundations of grammar, concentrating on functional-semantic fields, with emphasis on the diversity of their structural types. Criteria for distinguishing between linguistically structured meaning and non-linguistic cognitive content is developed in a discussion on "the Category of Aspect and its Environment" which includes an analysis of aspectual opposition according to the Prague School. Special attention is also paid to analysing polycentric fiel |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-199) and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Functionalism (Linguistics)
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Russian language -- Grammar
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Russian.
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Functionalism (Linguistics)
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Russian language -- Grammar
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
91007761 |
| ISBN |
9789027277794 |
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9027277796 |
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1283328151 |
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9781283328159 |
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6613328154 |
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9786613328151 |
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