Laura A. Janda, "A Geography of Case Semantics: The Czech Dative and the Russian Instrumental"
Laura A. Janda, "A Geography of Case Semantics: The Czech Dative and the Russian Instrumental"
Publisher: De Gruyter | 1993 | ISBN: 3110126729 | English | PDF | 240 pages | 47.2 Mb
Publisher: De Gruyter | 1993 | ISBN: 3110126729 | English | PDF | 240 pages | 47.2 Mb
Janda's monograph uses cognitive semantics to describe two Slavic cases. Lucidly written and with a wealth of examples from both Czech and Russian, this book fulfills two roles it is both a well-organized analysis of a linguistic problem and a compelling argument for Slavists as to the importance of cognitive grammar as a research tool. The author is at her strongest in laying out her essential arguments that cognitive approaches provide theoratically and intuitivelly satisfying descriptions of case categories as a whole and of semantic and symactic uses of case, and that they provide ample mechaninisms to explain differences in case meaning between two languages.
Laura A. Janda, "A Geography of Case Semantics: The Czech Dative and the Russian Instrumental"
