This monograph presents a contrastive-corpus analysis of the semantic category of gratification. It takes as a case study the verb reward and its various forms in Polish and in English, as prototypical of the semantics of gratification. The study, set predominantly in the framework of semantic syntax, and drawing from the theory of valence and frame semantics, adopts a corpus-driven and usage-based approach to language analysis. By exploring the syntactic realization and distribution of arguments opened by the predicates of gratification in the two languages, the book offers new insights into language representation in English and Polish, and addresses the combinatoricity of human thought and cognitive mechanisms reflected in the lexicalization patterns of the situation of rewarding.
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 153 mm
Dicke: 28 mm
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978-3-631-87554-4 (9783631875544)
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Katarzyna Góra holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Warmia and Mazury in Poland. She works as an assistant at the Institute of Linguistics at UWM. She is interested in the philosophy of language, lexical representation, semantics and linguistic research in autism spectrum disorders.
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a contrastive-corpus analysis of the semantic category of gratification
a case study the predicate5 reward and its various forms in Polish and in English
set in the framework of semantic syntax, the theory of valence and frame semantics
based on data derived from a wide variety of sources from modern corpora
addresses the phenomenon of the combinatoricity of human thought
