Old Russian Possessive Constructions (eBook)

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Hanne Martine Eckhoff, University of Oslo, Norway.

Acknowledgements 9
List of abbreviations 11
1 Introduction 13
1 Possession and its neighbours 13
2 The case study 13
2.1 Earlier approaches 14
2.2 The text samples 17
3 Why construction grammar? 18
4 Semantic maps 20
5 A path through the book 21
2 A map of the possessive semantic space 23
1 Where does the meaning come from? 23
2 Relational nouns and slot fillers 24
2.1 Deverbal nouns 26
2.2 Other relational nouns 27
3 Construction meaning: reference points and intrinsic relationships 29
4 The nodes 31
4.1 Identification (ID and ID(slot)): Reference points on instance level 32
4.2 TYPE: Reference points on type level 33
4.3 LABEL: Strongly conventionalised constructions 34
4.4 Elaboration of relational nouns: ELAB(slot) and ELAB(part) 35
4.5 Elaboration of non-relational nouns (ELAB) 37
5 Meaning to form or form to meaning 38
6 Semantic maps 38
6.1 What does a semantic map show us? 38
6.2 Drawing vs. generation 39
6.3 A correspondence analysis plot 40
7 The working map 42
3 The constructions in Old Russian 47
1 Denominal adjectives 47
1.1 ADJ1: “True possessives” 48
1.2 ADJ2: “Relative” adjectives 51
2 The genitive 53
3 The dative 58
4 Mixed constructions 61
5 OCS and Old Russian 61
6 Summary 63
4 ID: Reference points on instance level 65
1 OCS 65
1.1 ID 65
1.2 ID(slot) 71
2 11th–14th century Old Russian 80
2.1 ID 80
2.2 ID(slot) 86
3 Further developments in the history of Russian 93
3.1 The ADJ1 construction 94
3.2 The ADJ2 construction 97
3.3 The genitive constructions 99
3.4 The dative construction 101
3.5 Mixed constructions 101
3.6 A snapshot of the 18th century: When did the genitive start expanding? 103
5 The ELAB nodes: Intrinsic relationships 105
1 Reference points or not? 105
2 ELAB(slot) 107
2.1 OCS 107
2.2 11th–14th century Old Russian 116
2.3 Further developments in the history of Russian 123
3 ELAB(part) 127
3.1 ELAB(part) in OCS and 11th–14th century Old Russian 127
3.2 Further developments in the history of Russian 129
4 ELAB 130
4.1 ELAB in OCS and 11th–14th century Old Russian 130
4.2 Further developments in the history of Russian 138
5 Conclusions 142
6 Types and conventionalised units: TYPE and LABEL 143
1 TYPE 143
1.1 TYPE in OCS and 11th–14th century Old Russian 144
1.2 Borderline cases 146
1.3 Further developments in the history of Russian 146
2 LABEL 147
2.1 OCS 148
2.2 11th–14th century Old Russian 152
2.3 Further developments in the history of Russian 156
3 Conclusions 160
7 Synchrony and diachrony 163
1 Synchrony: Division of labour vs. complementary distribution 163
1.1 Complementary distribution? 164
1.2 Division of labour 165
1.3 Map and territory 167
2 Diachrony 168
2.1 OCS vs. Old Russian 168
2.2 Development trends 169
2.3 The demise of the dative construction 170
2.4 The withdrawal of the ADJ2 construction 173
2.5 The weakening of the ADJ1 construction 174
2.6 From two genitive constructions to one? 180
2.7 A brief note on origins and causes 183
2.8 Diachronic paths 185
8 Concluding remarks 191
Appendix: Corpus and method 193
1 Text selection principles 193
1.1 Fair representation of each period 193
1.2 Geography 194
1.3 Literary genres 194
1.4 Text editions and manuscripts 194
1.5 Late copies of early manuscripts 195
2 The Old Russian text samples 197
2.1 Text genres 197
2.2 Periodisation of Old Russian texts 198
3 The OCS text sample 199
4 Excerpation, data registration and citation 200
5 Text excerpts 202
5.1 Old Russian 202
5.2 OCS 207
Notes 209
References 217
Index 225