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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823781703321

Autore

Beytenbrat Alexandra

Titolo

Case in Russian : a sign-oriented approach / / Alexandra Beytenbrat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

9789027268167

90-272-6816-9

90-272-1580-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 pages)

Collana

Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, , 1385-7916 ; ; 70

Disciplina

491.75

Soggetti

Russian language - Case

Russian language - Case grammar

Russian language - Semantics

Functionalism (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents an analysis of Russian case from a sign-oriented perspective. The study was inspired by William Diver's analysis of Latin case and follows the spirit of the Columbia School of linguistics. The fundamental premise that underlies this volume is that language is a communicative tool shaped by human behavior.In this study, case is viewed as a semantic entity. Each case is assigned an invariant meaning within a larger semantic system, which is validated through numerous examples from spoken language and literary texts to illustrate that the distribution of cases is semantically