By Laura A. Janda
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The lack of resolution in the supposed semantic/syntactic interface, a nguists have followed Kurytowicz's lead. Isacenko (1965) applied to Russian, and identified many of the primary and secondary funccases of that language. His work is, however, hardly an exhaustive Russian according to this model, and also contains many insights not m this distinction. DeGroot (1965) makes use of the same distinction equally generalized account. Deserieva (1974) tallies up all of the syntactic uses of each case in Russian and then puts these values in a means of which she arrives at figures describing the abstractness of e nominative is, according to her, 100% syntactic and therefore very ereas the dative, instrumental and locative are quite concrete, as Kurylowicz.
Perhaps the most ambitious author in this regard is van Schooneveld (1978), who sought a single grand semantic pattern for all morphemes that serve to structure Russian sentences. The fact that Burston (1977) succeeded in applying the very same system of features which van Schooneveld worked out for Russian to a language with a very different case system (Pali) is enough to suggest that something is amiss. It appears to be too easy to twist universal invariants around to fit the data and, conversely, this sort of approach fails to account for variation among languages.
Commentaries on the common origins or relatedness of meanings are often sprinkled in on an ad hoc (and inconsistent) basis in order to fill out the description and to reduce its choppiness, but these constitute improvements in presentation rather than alterations in theoretical framework. As mentioned in the previous chapter, the network structure of a cognitive description facilitates captioning of the unity and infrastructure of a category without 26 sacrificing any of the detail sought in the list model.
