Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
List of John Benjamins publications in which Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0378-4177 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9978
The Linguistics of Temperature
Edited by Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
The volume is the first comprehensive typological study of the conceptualisation of temperature in languages as reflected in their systems of central temperature terms (hot, cold, to freeze, etc.). The key issues addressed here include questions such as how languages categorize the temperature… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 107] 2015. xii, 934 pp.
Circum-Baltic Languages: Volume 1: Past and Present
Edited by Östen Dahl and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European — Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 54] 2001. xx, 382 pp.
Circum-Baltic Languages: Volume 2: Grammar and Typology
Edited by Östen Dahl and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European —Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 55] 2001. xx, 423 pp.
Circum-Baltic Languages: 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Östen Dahl and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European — Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 54-55] 2001. xx, 382 pp. & xx, 423 pp.
2022 Chapter 8. Talking temperature with close relatives: Semantic systems across Slavic languages The Typology of Physical Qualities, Rakhilina, Ekaterina, Tatiana Reznikova and Daria Ryzhova (eds.), pp. 215–268 | Chapter
The chapter compares the temperature adjectives (‘hot’, ‘cold’ etc.) across Slavic against a broader typological background. The comparison targets both the systems as a whole and the forms involved in them. The main questions are how (dis)similar the temperature systems of closely related… read more
2015 Introducing “The linguistics of temperature” The Linguistics of Temperature, Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (ed.), pp. 1–40 | Article
2013 A Mozart sonata and the Palme murder: The structure and uses of proper-name compounds in Swedish Morphosyntactic Categories and the Expression of Possession, Börjars, Kersti, David Denison and Alan K. Scott (eds.), pp. 253–290 | Article
This paper focuses on Swedish nominal compounds with a personal proper name as their first component (PropN-compounds), e.g. en Mozart+sonat ‘a Mozart sonata’ or Palme+mord-et ‘the Palme murder’ (‘Palme+murder-the’). Although these expressions have so far hardly appeared in the scientific discourse… read more
2010 Chapter 13. Aquamotion verbs in Slavic and Germanic: A case study in lexical typology New Approaches to Slavic Verbs of Motion, Hasko, Victoria and Renee Perelmutter (eds.), pp. 315–341 | Article
The paper contrasts the verbs plyt’/plavat’ in Russian and plynac/plywac in Polish with their correspondences in Dutch, English and Swedish against a broader typological background. The three Germanic languages use several verbs for what is covered by a pair of derivationally related verbs in each… read more
2008 Approaching lexical typology From Polysemy to Semantic Change: Towards a typology of lexical semantic associations, Vanhove, Martine (ed.), pp. 3–52 | Article
The paper aims at situating the research direction presented in the volume within the larger domain of typological research in general. It gives a short summary of what is meant by typological research, discusses the relation between semantic and lexical typology and the general premises for… read more
2005 Review of Rijkhoff (2002): The noun phrase Functions of Language 12:1, pp. 125–132 | Review
2001 11. Kinship in grammar Dimensions of Possession, Baron, Irène, Michael Herslund and Finn Sørensen (eds.), pp. 201–226 | Chapter
2001 The Circum-Baltic Languages: Introduction to the volume Circum-Baltic Languages: Volume 1: Past and Present, Dahl, Östen and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (eds.), pp. xv–xx | Chapter
2001 The Circum-Baltic Languages: Introduction to the volume Circum-Baltic Languages: Volume 2: Grammar and Typology, Dahl, Östen and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (eds.), pp. xv–xx | Miscellaneous
2001 “A piece of the cake” and “a cup of tea”: Partitive and pseudo-partitive nominal constructions in the Circum-Baltic languages Circum-Baltic Languages: Volume 2: Grammar and Typology, Dahl, Östen and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (eds.), pp. 523–568 | Article
2001 The Circum-Baltic languages: An areal-typological approach Circum-Baltic Languages: Volume 2: Grammar and Typology, Dahl, Östen and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (eds.), pp. 615–750 | Article
2000 Romani genitives in cross-linguistic perspective Grammatical Relations in Romani: The Noun Phrase, Elšík, Viktor and Yaron Matras (eds.), pp. 123–150 | Article
1993 Alutor causatives, noun incorporation, and the Mirror Principle Causatives and Transitivity, Comrie, Bernard and Maria Polinsky (eds.), pp. 287–314 | Article