Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Part I â€? Theory
  • 0. Introduction
  • 1. What Cognitive Semantics Is
  • 1.1 Support For Cognitive Semantics From Other Disciplines
  • 1.2. Case As A Semantic Entity
  • 1.3. What A Cognitive Description Of Case Should Look Like
  • 2. Cognitive Semantics Compared With Other Descriptions Of Case
  • 2.1. Case Semantics In Previous Traditions
  • 2.2. How The Cognitive Model Has Been Implied By Various Authors
  • 2.3. Advantages Of The Cognitive Approach
  • 2.4. An Ideal Description Of Case: Skalickaâ€?S Challenge
  • Part Ii â€? Analysis 3. Why The Czech Dative And The Russian Instrumental?
  • 3.1. Schema 1 â€? Indirect Object
  • 3.2. Schema 2 And Variants â€? Free Dative
  • 3.3. Dative Network Bound By Syntagmatic Variants Of The Schemas
  • 3.4. Reflexive Uses Of The Dative
  • 3.5. Semantic Extension Via Mapping â€? Pragmatic Uses Of The Dative
  • 4. Comparison Of Cognitive Networks â€? The Russian Dative
  • 4.1. Schema 1 â€? Indirect Object
  • 4.2. Schema 2 And Variants â€? Free Dative
  • 4.3. Dative Reflexives
  • 5. Analysis Of The Russian Instrumental
  • 5.1. Conduit Instrumental â€? Schema 1 And Syntagmatic Variants 5.2. Schema 2 â€? Instrumental Of Setting
  • 5.3. Attributive Instrumental
  • 5.4. Instrumental Used With A Preposition
  • 5.5. Instrumental Network Bound By Paradigm Of Peripherality And By Alliance
  • 6. The Czech Instrumental
  • 6.1. Conduit Instrumental
  • 6.2. Instrumental Of Setting
  • 6.3. Attributive Instrumental
  • 6.4. Instrumental With A Preposition
  • 7. Concluding Remarks And Possible Universals
  • Notes
  • References