Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon

Name: Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon
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Klaus-Uwe Panther Günter Radden(Herausgeber*in)

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Erschienen am 29. Juni 2011

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Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Introduction
2. Human systems and their interaction
2.1 Cognition
2.2 Bodily experience
2.3 Emotion
2.4 Perception
2.5 Action
2.6 Social and communicative interaction
2.7 Culture
2.8 Language
3. Language and cognition
3.1 From language to cognition: Whorfian effects
3.2 From cognition to language: Motivation in language
3.3 Motivation, arbitrariness, conventionality, and non-conventionality of the linguistic sign
4. Contributions to this volume
4.1 Motivation in grammar
4.2 Motivation in the lexicon
5. Conclusion
References
Part I. Motivation in grammar
Semantic motivation of the English auxiliary
1. Motivating motivation
2. Meaning and grammar
3. The English auxiliary
4. Functional and systemic organization
5. Existence, negotiation, and interaction
6. The existential core
7. Conclusion
References
The mind as ground
1. Introduction
2. The GbF model and English inversion
3. The existential construction as a default instantiation of GbF
3.1 What is there?
3.2 The existential representing the GbF where inversion fails
3.3 More on the versatility of the existential construction
3.4 The existential construction paralleling inversion
3.5 The existent NP: Definite or indefinite?
4. The current proposal and other proposals
5. Conclusion
References
Motivating the flexibility of oriented -ly adverbs
1. Introduction
2. Previous cognitive linguistic studies
3. Manner adverbs
4. Transparent adverbs
5. Vantage point
6. External states
7. A schematic description
8. Conclusion
References
The cognitive motivation for the use of dangling participles in English
1. Introduction
2. Previous approaches to dangling participles
3. A usage-based study of situation patterns in dangling participial constructions
3.1 Corpus material and search method
3.2 Types of situation described in the dangling participial clause
3.3 Types of situations described in the main clause
3.4 Meaning of the dangling participial construction
4. Subjectification and intersubjectification of the dangling participial construction
5. Conclusion
References
What motivates an inference?
1. Introduction
2. Inference and semantic change
3. An analysis of temporal/spatial overlap
4. An explanation for the semantic shift
4.1 From temporal overlap to contrast
4.2 From temporal overlap to concessive
4.3 Hypotheses on perceptual motivations
5. Empirical evidence
5.1 Experiment I
5.2 Experiment II
5.3 Experiment III
5.4 Summary
6. Motivations for inference
6.1 Perceptual motivation
6.2 Competing motivations: Perceptual and cognitive factors
7. Conclusion
References
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix D (contd.)
Appendix D (contd.)
Appendix D (contd.)
The conceptual motivation of aspect
1. Introduction
2. Experimental research on event construal
3. Experimental research on aspect
4. New experiments on aspect and event construal
5. Conclusion
References
Metaphoric motivation in grammatical structure
1. Introduction
2. Preliminary observations
3. The Lexical-Constructional Model: Lexical and constructional templates
3.1 Lexical templates
3.2 Constructional templates
4. The interaction of lexical and constructional templates
4.1 The lexical-constructional subsumption in the caused-motion construction
4.2 Internal constraints
5. The subsumption process
5.1 The NP into-gerund construction
6. External constraints
6.1 Verbs of perception
6.2 Speech verbs
3.3 Verbs of sound emission
7. Concluding remarks
References
Motivation in English must and Hungarian kell
1. Root modals and force dynamics
1.1 The background
1.2 "Pure" force dynamics
1.3 An alternative: Participants and forces associated with them
2. Deontic modals and the billiard-ball model
2.1 Langacker's basic model of energetic interaction
2.2 Extensions from the prototypical action chain
2.3 Profiling, case marking and the experiencer
2.4 Dual role of a participant: Case marking of the doer in deontic must and Hungarian kell
3. The limits of motivation: Extension into the epistemic domain
3.1 The nature of the epistemic domain and case marking
3.2 Possible motivations
4. Conclusions
References
The socio-cultural motivation of referent honorifics in Korean and Japanese
1. Introduction
2. Referent honorifics in Korean and Japanese
2.1 What are referent honorifics?
2.2 Subject vs. non-subject referent honorifics
2.3 Productivity of referent honorification and its cross-linguistic difference
3. Factors motivating the difference in productivity
3.1 The socio-cultural factor of the viewing arrangement in Japanese
3.2 The socio-cultural factor of uchi/soto
4. Concluding remarks
References
Part II. Motivation in the Lexicon
Conceptual motivation in adjectival semantics
1. Introduction
2. Cognitive reference points
2.1 Roschean cognitive reference points
2.2 Elaborations of the Roschean model
2.3 Cognitive reference points in linguistic research
3. Cognitive reference points in dimensional adjectives
3.1 Norm
3.2 Zero point
3.3 ego
4. Conclusion
References
Metonymy, metaphor and the "weekend frame of mind"
1. Introduction
2. Cross-linguistic and intra-linguistic variation in the use of the capital for government metonymies
3. Motivation for the micro-variation of the capital for government metonymies in Croatian and Hungarian
3.1 Conceptual motivation: the role of the cultural model and the metaphor proximity/distance in time and mental world is the proximity/distance in the sociophysical world
3.2 Structural and discourse-pragmatic motivation
4. Conclusions
References
Intrinsic or extrinsic motivation?
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical background
2.1 Lexical motivation
2.2 Polysemy and lexical motivation
2.3 Transparency in the lexicon
3. Empirical study on lexical motivation
3.1 Goals of the questionnaire and hypotheses
3.2 Stimulus material
3.3 Method
3.4 Results
4. Conclusions and outlook on further research
References
Motivational networks
1. Introduction
2. What is (lexical) motivation?
3. Motivational networks
4. Evidence from speaker judgements
4.1 Why speaker judgements?
4.2 Multiple motivational links
5. The cognitive structure of word families
5.1 Word families and their status in the mental lexicon
5.2 Evidence for the influence of word families on lexical processing
5.3 Synthesis
6. Conclusion
References
The "meaning-full" vocabulary of English and German
1. Delimiting the notion of motivation in the lexicon
2. Researching the motivatability of the English and German vocabulary
3. Results
4. Conclusion
References
Name index
Subject index

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