The Chain of \_\_Being\_\_ and \_\_Having\_\_ in Slavic (Studies in Language Companion Series)

'The complex diachronic and synchronic status of the concepts be and have can be understood only with consideration of their full range of constructions and functions. Data from modern Slavic languages (Russian, Czech, Polish, Bulgarian) provides a window into zero copulas, non-verbal have expressions, and verbal constructions. From the perspective of cognitive linguistics, be and have are analyzed in terms of a blended prototype model, wherein existence/copula for be and possession/relationship for have are inseparably combined. These concepts are related to each other in their functions and meanings and serve as organizing principles in a conceptual network of semantic neighbors, including give, take, get, become, make, and verbs of position and motion. Renewal and replacement of be and have occur through processes of polysemization and suppletization involving lexical items in this network. Topics include polysemy, suppletion, tense/mood auxiliaries, modality, causatives, evidentiality, function words, contact phenomena, syntactic calques, and idiomatic constructions.' Cover ......Page 1 The Chain of Being and Having in Slavic......Page 2 Editorial page......Page 3 Title page......Page 4 LCC data......Page 5 Table of contents......Page 6 List of tables......Page 10 List of figures and capsules......Page 12 Abbreviations and symbols used......Page 14 A note on the content and format of this book......Page 16 Ch 1. Why BE and HAVE?......Page 20 Ch 2. The Relationship Between be and have......Page 28 Ch 3. Be in the modern Slavic languages......Page 86 Ch 4. Have in the modern Slavic languages......Page 140 Ch 5. Grammaticalization of be and have......Page 178 Ch 6. Language contact and borrowing......Page 250 Ch 7. Conclusions......Page 270 Appendix: data sources......Page 284 Bibliography......Page 304 Author index......Page 310 Language index......Page 312 Subject index......Page 314 The series Studies in Language Companion Series......Page 317 By Steven J. Clancy. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.