Old Russian Possessive Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach

228 Pages·2011·1.271 MB·English

by  Hanne Martine Eckhoff

Old Russian Possessive Constructions
Trends in Linguistics
Studies and Monographs 237
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Old Russian
Possessive Constructions
A Construction Grammar Approach
by
Hanne Martine Eckhoff
De Gruyter Mouton
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Contents
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Listofabbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1 Possessionanditsneighbours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2 Thecasestudy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2.1 Earlierapproaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.2 Thetextsamples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3 Whyconstructiongrammar? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4 Semanticmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5 Apaththroughthebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2 Amapofthepossessivesemanticspace . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1 Wheredoesthemeaningcomefrom? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2 Relationalnounsandslotfillers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.1 Deverbalnouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.2 Otherrelationalnouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3 Constructionmeaning:referencepointsandintrinsic
relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4 Thenodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.1 Identification (ID and ID(slot)): Reference points on instance
level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.2 TYPE:Referencepointsontypelevel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.3 LABEL:Stronglyconventionalisedconstructions . . . . . . . 22
4.4 Elaborationofrelationalnouns:ELAB(slot)andELAB(part) . 23
4.5 Elaborationofnon-relationalnouns(ELAB) . . . . . . . . . . 25
5 Meaningtoformorformtomeaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
6 Semanticmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
6.1 Whatdoesasemanticmapshowus? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
6.2 Drawingvs.generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
6.3 Acorrespondenceanalysisplot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
7 Theworkingmap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
vi Contents
3 TheconstructionsinOldRussian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
1 Denominaladjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
1.1 ADJ1:“Truepossessives” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
1.2 ADJ2:“Relative”adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
2 Thegenitive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
3 Thedative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
4 Mixedconstructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
5 OCSandOldRussian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
6 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
4 ID:Referencepointsoninstancelevel . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
1 OCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
1.1 ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
1.2 ID(slot) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
2 11th–14thcenturyOldRussian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
2.1 ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
2.2 ID(slot) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
3 FurtherdevelopmentsinthehistoryofRussian. . . . . . . . . 81
3.1 TheADJ1construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
3.2 TheADJ2construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
3.3 Thegenitiveconstructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
3.4 Thedativeconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
3.5 Mixedconstructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
3.6 A snapshot of the 18th century: When did the genitive start
expanding? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
5 TheELABnodes:Intrinsicrelationships . . . . . . . . . . 93
1 Referencepointsornot? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
2 ELAB(slot) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
2.1 OCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
2.2 11th–14thcenturyOldRussian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
2.3 FurtherdevelopmentsinthehistoryofRussian. . . . . . . . . 111
3 ELAB(part) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
3.1 ELAB(part)inOCSand11th–14thcenturyOldRussian . . . . 115
3.2 FurtherdevelopmentsinthehistoryofRussian. . . . . . . . . 117
4 ELAB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
4.1 ELABinOCSand11th–14thcenturyOldRussian . . . . . . 118
Contents vii
4.2 FurtherdevelopmentsinthehistoryofRussian. . . . . . . . . 126
5 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
6 Typesandconventionalisedunits:TYPEandLABEL . . . 131
1 TYPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
1.1 TYPEinOCSand11th–14thcenturyOldRussian . . . . . . . 132
1.2 Borderlinecases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
1.3 FurtherdevelopmentsinthehistoryofRussian. . . . . . . . . 134
2 LABEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
2.1 OCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
2.2 11th–14thcenturyOldRussian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
2.3 FurtherdevelopmentsinthehistoryofRussian. . . . . . . . . 144
3 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
7 Synchronyanddiachrony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
1 Synchrony:Divisionoflabourvs.complementarydistribution 151
1.1 Complementarydistribution? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
1.2 Divisionoflabour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
1.3 Mapandterritory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
2 Diachrony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
2.1 OCSvs.OldRussian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
2.2 Developmenttrends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
2.3 Thedemiseofthedativeconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
2.4 ThewithdrawaloftheADJ2construction . . . . . . . . . . . 161
2.5 TheweakeningoftheADJ1construction . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
2.6 Fromtwogenitiveconstructionstoone? . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
2.7 Abriefnoteonoriginsandcauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
2.8 Diachronicpaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
8 Concludingremarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Appendix:Corpusandmethod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
1 Textselectionprinciples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
1.1 Fairrepresentationofeachperiod. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
1.2 Geography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
1.3 Literarygenres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
1.4 Texteditionsandmanuscripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
1.5 Latecopiesofearlymanuscripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
viii Contents
2 TheOldRussiantextsamples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
2.1 Textgenres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
2.2 PeriodisationofOldRussiantexts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
3 TheOCStextsample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
4 Excerpation,dataregistrationandcitation . . . . . . . . . . . 188
5 Textexcerpts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
5.1 OldRussian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
5.2 OCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Acknowledgements
The subject matter of this book has been with me for a long time. I had my
firstlookattheOldRussianpossessiveconstructionswhenIstartedworking
onmymaster’sthesisin1998,andtheywerethesubjectofmydoctoraldis-
sertation, of which this book is the heavily reworked offspring. I would like
tothankanumberofpeoplewhohaveassistedandencouragedmealongthe
way.Allerrorsandshortcomingsareofcoursemyown.
I am deeply indebted to my supervisors, Irina Lyse´n and Kristian Emil
Kristoffersen, for their encouragement, generosity, diplomacy and patience
during my doctorate. I would also like to thank the participants at the Semi-
nar of Cognitive Grammar at the University of Oslo for providing such a
goodenvironmentforreadinganddiscussionwithintheframeworkofCogni-
tiveGrammarandconstructiongrammar.EspeciallyIwouldthankmyfriend
andfellowmartyrtogenitivestudiesEllenHellebostadToftforconstantand
engaging discussions on theoretical issues, and for being such an excellent
readerandposerofdifficultquestions.
I want to thank my past and present colleagues at the project “Pragmatic
Resources in Old Indo-European Languages” at the University of Oslo for
providing me with such an extraordinarily stimulating and exciting working
environment. This book has benefited in a myriad ways from what I have
learned in my years as a postdoc on the project. My special thanks to Eirik
WeloandDagHaugforreadingpartsofthebookandgivingsoundandthor-
ough advice from a different theoretical perspective. Dag Haug was also the
onewholeadmetobelieveIcouldwritethisbookinnotime,whichofcourse
wasnottrue,butveryusefulallthesame.
I am very grateful to Mouton’s anonymous reviewer for some excellent
suggestions.Youmadethisbooksomuchbetter.
ManythankstoAnneEilertsen,queenofthesemicolon,forproofreading
aftermyownperfectionistheart.Quoththeraven,“Furthermore!”
Finally,mywarmestthankstomyfamily;mychildrenforcomingalongat
preciselytherighttimesandmakingmetakebreaks,andmyhusbandSturla
Berg-Olsen not only for his great patience and generosity, but also for be-
ingsuchatough,criticalandwell-informedreader,colleagueanddiscussion
partner.