Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language
Published on 13. June 1996
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This collection of papers is the result of the first Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language conference (CSDL) held at the University of California, San Diego. The conference brought together researchers from both 'Cognitive' and 'Functional' approaches to linguistics. The papers in this volume span a variety of topics, but the common thread running through them is the claim that semantics and discourse properties are fundamental to the understanding of language. The themes presented in the volume include an emphasis on the dynamic nature of language, the relevance of a notion of viewpoint in grammatical analysis, the role and nature of metaphor and cognitive blend, the possibility of non-derivational ways to capture relationships among constructions and the importance of lexical semantics. This volume will appeal to a wide range of linguists, echoing the theme of the conference - bringing together two diverse approaches to linguistics.
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1. French modals and speaker control; 2. Constraints on adjectival past participle; 3. From resultativity to current relevance: evidence from the history of English and modern castilian Spanish; 4. Beyond beads on a string and branches in a tree; 5. Menendez brothers virus: blended spaces and internet humor; 6. Conditional, distancing, and alternative spaces; 7. Viewpoint and the definite article; 8. Blending as a central process of grammar; 9. Psychological predicates and the syntax-semantics interface; 10. Discourse goals and attentional processes in sentence production: the dynamic construal of events; 11. Salish lexical suffixes: a case of decategorialization; 12. Primitive and compound metaphors; 13. What's so easy about pie?: The lexicalization of a metaphor; 14. Metaphor, metaphorical extension, and grammaticalization: a study of Mandarin Chinese -qilai; 15. The way constructions grow; 16. Emphatic-self in discourse; 17. The metaphor system for morality; 18. On the formal and functional relationship between topics and vocatives: evidence from French; 19. A constraint on progressive generics; 20. Conversational use and basic meaning of Finnish demonstratives; 21. Rigid syntax and flexible meaning: the case of the English ditransitive; 22. Conceptual manipulation and semantic distinction: the case of Mandarin postverbal 'De'- complements; 23. Schematic representations of discourse structure; 24. How abstract is subjective motion? A comparison of coverage path expressions and access path expressions; 25.The exclamative sentence type in English; 26. The dynamic nature of conceptual structure building: evidence from conversation; 27. Situation perspective: on the relations of thematic roles, discourse categories, and grammatical relations to figure and ground; 28. Manipulation of discourse spaces in American sign language; 29. Roles, values, and possessives: deictic adjectives in the noun phrase; 30. How productive are metaphors? A close look at the participation of a few verbs in the 'states are locations' metaphor (and others); 31. On the discourse function of rightward movement in English; 32. Deontic and epistemic modals in ASL: a discourse analysis.