Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon
Published on 29. June 2011
Book
Hardback
306 pages
978-90-272-2381-4 (ISBN)
Description
Language structure and use are largely shaped by cognitive processes such as categorizing, framing, inferencing, associative (metonymic), and analogical (metaphorical) thinking, and - mediated through cognition - by bodily experience, emotion, perception, action, social/communicative interaction, culture, and the internal ecology of the linguistic system itself. The contributors to the present volume demonstrate how these language-independent factors motivate grammar and the lexicon in a variety of languages such as English, German, French, Italian, Hungarian, Russian, Croatian, Japanese, and Korean. The volume will be of great interest to students and scholars in cognitive and functional linguistics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
+ index
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
735 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-2381-4 (9789027223814)
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Klaus-Uwe Panther | Günter Radden
Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon
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Content
1. Preface; 2. Introduction: Reflections on motivation revisited (by Panther, Klaus-Uwe); 3. Part I. Motivation in grammar; 4. Semantic motivation of the English auxiliary (by Langacker, Ronald W.); 5. The mind as ground: A study of the English existential construction (by Chen, Rong); 6. Motivating the flexibility of oriented -ly adverbs (by Broccias, Cristiano); 7. The cognitive motivation for the use of dangling participles in English (by Hayase, Naoko); 8. What motivates an inference?: The emergence of CONTRAST/CONCESSIVE from TEMPORAL/SPATIAL OVERLAP (by Izutsu, Mitsuko Narita); 9. The conceptual motivation of aspect (by Matlock, Teenie); 10. Metaphoric motivation in grammatical structure: The caused-motion construction from the perspective of the Lexical-Constructional Model (by Baicchi, Annalisa); 11. Motivation in English must and Hungarian kell (by Pelyvas, Peter); 12. The socio-cultural motivation of referent honorifics in Korean and Japanese (by Uehara, Satoshi); 13. Part II. Motivation in the Lexicon; 14. Conceptual motivation in adjectival semantics: Cognitive reference points revisited (by Tribushinina, Elena); 15. Metonymy, metaphor and the "weekend frame of mind": Towards motivating the micro-variation in the use of one type of metonymy (by Brdar, Mario); 16. Intrinsic or extrinsic motivation?: The implications of metaphor- and metonymy-based polysemy for transparency in the lexicon (by Marzo, Daniela); 17. Motivational networks: An empirically supported cognitive phenomenon (by Umbreit, Birgit); 18. The "meaning-full" vocabulary of English and German: An empirical study on lexical motivatability (by Sanchez-Stockhammer, Christina); 19. Name index; 20. Subject index