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On Interpreting Construction Schemas - From Action and Motion to Transitivity and Causality (Hardcover)
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On Interpreting Construction Schemas - From Action and Motion to Transitivity and Causality (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
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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.
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