Cognitive Paths into the Slavic Domain (Cognitive Linguistic Research)

Frontmatter\n......Page 2
Table of contents......Page 8
Preface\n......Page 6
Why cognitive linguists should care about the Slavic languages and vice versa......Page 10
Nominative and instrumental variation of adjectival predicates with the Russian copula byt\': reference time, limitation, and focalization......Page 30
Why double marking in the Macedonian dativus sympatheticus?......Page 64
What makes Russian bi-aspectual verbs special?......Page 92
Perfectives, imperfectives and the Croatian present tense......Page 120
Conflicting epistemic meanings of the Polish aspectual variants in past and in future uses: are they a vagary of grammar?\n......Page 158
Conjunctions, verb forms, and epistemic stance in Polish and Serbian predictive conditionals......Page 190
Degrees of event integration. A binding scale for [VFIN VINF] structures in Russian\n......Page 230
The \'impersonal\' impersonal construction in Polish. A Cognitive Grammar analysis......Page 266
A Frame Semantic account of morphosemantic change: the case of Old Czech věřící......Page 300
A prototype account of the development of delimitative po- in Russian\n......Page 338
The rise of an epistemic pragmatic marker in Balkan Slavic: an exploratory study of nešto......Page 384
Iconicity and linear ordering of constituents within Polish NPs......Page 420
Discourse-aspectual markers in Czech sound symbolic expressions: Towards a systematic analysis of sound symbolism\n......Page 440
Subject index\n......Page 468