Delbecque / Cornillie On Interpreting Construction Schemas

From Action and Motion to Transitivity and Causality
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-020784-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 378 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: ISSN

This volume addresses the constructional variability with transitive and causative verbs from the point of view of their respective action and motion patterns. Drawing on the theoretical advances registered in cognitive approaches to language (Cognitive Grammar, Construction Grammar and space semantics), the papers substantiate new interpretations and adduce empirical evidence from various languages to refine or adjust existing analyses of transitivity and causation.

The different contributions all address the crucial question of how concrete and abstract notions of human behavior drive linguistic expressions. Cognitive linguists consider that linguistic competence functions in terms of complex conceptual units: the native speaker knows and manipulates conceptual blocks without paying further attention to their constitutive parts or their internal organization. However, as this volume illustrates, the role of the constitutive parts and their internal organization cannot simply be reduced to zero. A multidimensional approach to construction schemas is at stake. That is, the speaker applies proper embodied subroutines to build a coherent meaning, but the construction schemas are also rooted in the linguistic patterns the speaker and hearer are familiar with.

The volume is primarily intended for scholars working within cognitive-semantic research at large. Given its theoretical and applied character (in the sense of giving empirical evidence for specific problems in the grammar), the volume will also be of great interest to anyone concerned with syntactic processes, construction grammar or with the cognitive structure of discourse. The descriptive and theoretical insights indeed dwell on areas that are currently dealt with in modern linguistics.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and Advanced Students of the Cognitive-Semantic Field, S

Autoren/Hrsg.

Delbecque, Nicole

Cornillie, Bert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Table of contents;5
3;Introduction;11
4;A usage-based approach to prototypical transitivity;27
5;Transitivity and referentiality in Spanish and Rumanian;49
6;Transitive verbs with non-accusative alternation in Hebrew: Cross-language comparison with English, German and Spanish;71
7;Unsubcategorized objects in English resultative constructions;113
8;Complex predicates in Basque;135
9;An adversative passive in English: in search of origins;153
10;Verbs of letting: Some cognitive and historical aspects;181
11;Syntactic and semantic integration in the Spanish causative-reflexive construction;211
12;Soft causatives in Spanish;239
13;Two causal alternatives: carry vs. push type constructions in English;271
14;Grammar of “manner of motion” verbs in English and Spanish: between lexicon and syntax;297
15;On the nature of lexicalization patterns: a crosslinguistic inquiry;317
16;The semantics of space : A study of the prefix proin Serbian;341
17;Backmatter;369

Über Autor(innen)

Nicole Delbecque and Bert Cornillie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.