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University of KentuckyUKnowledgeLinguistics Faculty Publications Linguistics1998Review of Russian-English Collocational Dictionary ofthe Human Body, by Lidija Iordanskaja and SlavaPapernoAndrew R. HippisleyUniversity of Kentucky, andrew.hippisley@uky.eduRight click to open a feedback form in a new tab to let us know how this document benefits you.Follow this and additional works at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/lin_facpubPart of the Linguistics CommonsThis Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Linguistics at UKnowledge. It has been accepted for inclusion in Linguistics FacultyPublications by an authorized administrator of UKnowledge. For more information, please contact UKnowledge@lsv.uky.edu.Repository CitationHippisley, Andrew R., "Review of Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body, by Lidija Iordanskaja and Slava Paperno"(1998). Linguistics Faculty Publications. 48.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/lin_facpub/48Review of Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body, by Lidija Iordanskaja and Slava PapernoThis book review is available at UKnowledge: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/lin_facpub/48Review: [untitled]Author(s): Andrew HippisleySource: The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 76, No. 1 (Jan., 1998), pp. 104-105Published by: the Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School ofSlavonic and East European StudiesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4212562 .Accessed: 04/05/2011 08:03Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at .http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unlessyou have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and youmay use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use.Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at .http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=ucl. .Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printedpage of such transmission.JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range ofcontent in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new formsof scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies and Modern Humanities ResearchAssociation are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Slavonic and EastEuropean Review.http://www.jstor.orgI04 THE SLAVONIC REVIEW their numerical functions. The material from this manuscript is incorporated by Stone into the basic list found in Laud misc. 47a. Both manuscripts conclude with thematic vocabulary lists containing the names of birds and plants, while Laud misc. 47a in addition contains a list of fishes and a list of the names of diseases, reflecting Ridley's particular interest. A third manuscript (Selden supra 6i), containing thirty-seven folios with similar content, is also in the possession of the Bodleian Library. The comparatively short lists of Russian words in approximately alphabetical order with English equivalents have not been included in this edition, and might at some point have been a draft or part of a draft for Laud misc. 47a. Department of Russian J. SULLIVAN University of St Andrews Jordanskaja, Lidija and Paperno, Slava. A Russian-English Collocational Diction- agy of the Human Body. Ed. Richard L. Leed. English equivalents by Lesli LaRocco and Jean MacKenzie. Slavica, Columbus, OH, I 996. xxviii + 4 I 8 pp. Tables. $29.95. THE Dictionary contains a list of seventy-three head words, all body parts, or related to the body (for example zivot 'stomach' and pot 'sweat' are included amongst the headwords). Collocational, as well as grammatical, information is provided, and examples are used for illustration, some taken from well- known Russian authors. Each entry follows a set pattern. To get an idea of how the Dictionagy functions, we can consider the entry boroda 'beard'. The entry contains six- and-a-half pages of grammatical and collocational information, in that order. Beginning with the latter, collocations are organized into sections such as 'shape and size', 'colour', 'inflicting injuries', 'movements and gestures'. This helps to narrow down the search for an expression. For example, to find the equivalent of 'wedge-shaped beard', look in the 'shape and size' section (where we find boroda klinom). Alternatively the 'thickness and tactile properties' section will yield Russian expressions for 'fluffy beard' (pusistaja boroda), or 'scraggly beard' (zidkaja boroda). Another advantage of this sub-sectioning is where the focus is not directly on body-parts, but on another category such as colour terms (in the case of boroda the colour section is nearly a page long). For example, it might be interesting to see how the colour term inventory has only a restricted use for body-parts; or how a particular term is restricted to cover body-parts, or a particular body-part, only. We discover for example that 'light brown' is denoted by rusyj for beards (and hair), rather than, say, svetlokoricnevyj. And it might turn out that in the expression sivaja boroda 'a beard streaked with grey' this particular meaning of sivyj is restricted to hair, or human hair, or beards, only. The collocations are certainly the most interesting part of the Dictiona?y, but much can also be gleaned from the grammatical information given for each entry. This is divided into 'semantic', 'morphological' and 'syntactic' informa- tion. The semantics section gives precisely what the term demarcates, for REVIEWS 105 example, 'hair on lower part of face for humans', as well as its use with animals (although animal body terminology is of secondary consideration). The morphology accounts for the stress of the noun, its gender and (somewhat redundantly) its animacy. Where there is one, the second locative is given (for example, na boku'). The 'syntax' section is a little disappointing since it is no more than a brief description of how Russian marks possession and (in a few cases, location) of the body-part. Since the mechanisms, and the factors governing the choice of mechanism, is virtually the same for each section, a short paragrapl in the Introduction would have probably sufficed. Derivational information is also included (although for some reason this is treated in the collocational sections). Entries are given with their diminutives, augmentatives and 'syntactic derivatives'. For example, borodenka is a possible diminutive, with slight disparaging nuance; and we are told that borodi!Y6a is used for the augmentative. For 'syntactic derivatives' (a term which is never explained) read (in most cases) 'relational adjectives'. For example, we are told that to express 'bearded' a compound of the form -borodyj is constructed, for example, 6ernoborodyj 'blackbearded'. In the case of the entry nos, the relational adjective is given as nosovoj. Apart from the Dictiona?y itself, there is an essay on the importance of body terminology in linguistics. The essay, by L. Iordanskaja, runs on for seventeen pages and functions to motivate the authors' choice of body-part terminology: body-parts are highly frequent, and are important from a linguistic point of view. The essay is entirely devoted to this latter point, the thesis being that body-parts serve as a good illustration for how reality is divided up differently by different language communities. Of course, it is because they are common to all people that body-parts serve as an obvious starting place for an investigation along these lines, but this is not mentioned. For example, English has a term for back of the neck 'nape' which is lacking in Russian; but Russian has the term nosok denoting toes and front of foot, which English lacks. (Surprisingly, the term is not one of the seventy-three included in the Dictionagy.) Countless examples of other lexical mismatches are given; of particular interest is the section on body-part expressions used only in direct speech. This detailed, solid and well-organized set of data on Russian body-part terms and their collocations must be seen as a welcome contribution to Russian linguistics, especially since an electronic version of the Dictionay exists (see http: / /russian.dmll.cornell.edu/russian.web/material/). Department of Linguistic and International Studies ANDREW HIPPISLEY University of Surrey Mertvago, Peter. The Comparative Russian-English Dictionay of Russian Proverbs and Sayings. Hippocrene Books, New York, 1995. Viii + 477 pp. Tables. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Price unknown. THIs new dictionary of Russian proverbs and sayings (poslovicy and pogovorki respectively) has three stated aims. First, and most importantly, it is a comparative study of Russian proverbs and sayings, giving equivalent proverbs 

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