Front matter; Table of contents; Why cognitive linguists should care about the Slavic languages and vice versa; Nominative and instrumental variation of adjectival predicates with the Russian copula byt': reference time, limitation, and focalization; Why double marking in the Macedonian dativus sympatheticus?; What makes Russian bi-aspectual verbs special?; Perfectives, imperfectives and the Croatian present tense; Conflicting epistemic meanings of the Polish aspectual variants in past and in future uses: are they a vagary of grammar?
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Conjunctions, verb forms, and epistemic stance in Polish and Serbian predictive conditionals Degrees of event integration. A binding scale for [VFIN VINF] structures in Russian; The 'impersonal' impersonal construction in Polish. A Cognitive Grammar analysis; A Frame Semantic account of morphosemantic change: the case of Old Czech verící; A prototype account of the development of delimitative po- in Russian; The rise of an epistemic pragmatic marker in Balkan Slavic: an exploratory study of nešto; Iconicity and linear ordering of constituents within Polish NPs
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Cognitive Paths into the Slavic Domain presents an overview of recent cognitive linguistic research on Slavic languages. It features diachronic and synchronic descriptions of nominal and verbal phenomena, event encoding strategies and discourse markers. The analyses are couched in a variety of cognitive linguistic frameworks, making the volume a worthwhile read for Slavic and cognitive linguists alike.
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