English Abstract Nouns as Conceptual Shells
From Corpus to Cognition
1st Edition
Published on 25. October 2012
XI, 457 pages
978-3-11-080870-4 (ISBN)
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Reprint 2012
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English
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Berlin/Boston
Germany
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de Gruyter Mouton
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Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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Content
- Intro
- Part I Foundations: Theory, terminology and methodology
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Approaching shell nouns
- 2.1 The term shell noun
- 2.2 Defining shell nouns and shell-content complexes in functional terms
- 2.3 A brief note on the theoretical stance
- 3. The links between shell nouns and contents
- 3.1 Triggering co-interpretation
- 3.2 The semantic contributions of different types of complements: a survey of the evidence from verbal complementation
- 3.3 Basic functions of shell-noun typical patterns
- 4. The systematic investigation of shell nouns
- 4.1 The From-Corpus-to-Cognition Principle
- 4.2 Data retrieval
- 4.3 Cleaning up the data
- 4.4 Systematic misses of the corpus inquiry
- 4.5 A survey of the results of the corpus inquiry
- 5. Semantic prerequisites
- 5.1 Abstractness
- 5.2 Unspecificity and structure-inherent semantic gaps
- 5.3 Summary of Part I
- Part II The use of shell nouns
- 6. Describing shell-noun uses
- 6.1 Degrees of typicality
- 6.2 Explaining the meanings of shell-noun uses: features and frames
- 7. Factual uses
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Neutral uses
- 7.3 Causal uses
- 7.4 Evidential uses
- 7.5 Comparative uses
- 7.6 Partitive uses
- 7.7 Attitudinal factual uses
- 8. Linguistic uses
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Propositional uses
- 8.3 Illocutionary uses
- 9. Mental uses
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Conceptual uses
- 9.3 Psychological-state uses
- 10. Modal uses
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Epistemic uses
- 10.3 Deonticuses
- 10.4 Dynamic uses
- 11. Eventive uses
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 General eventive uses
- 11.3 Specific eventive uses
- 11.4 Attitudinal eventive uses
- 12. Circumstantial uses
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 General circumstantial uses
- 12.3 Specific circumstantial uses
- 13. Summary of Part II
- Part III Functions of shell nouns
- 14. Introduction to Part III
- 15. Semantic functions
- 15.1 The characterizing potential inherent in shell nouns
- 15.2 Characterization expressed by premodifiers
- 16. Pragmatic, rhetorical and textual functions
- 16.1 Focusing and topicalizing
- 16.2 Linking
- 16.3 Signposting
- 17. Cognitive functions
- 17.1 Conceptual partitioning
- 17.2 Reifying and hypostatizing
- 17.3 Integrating
- 18. Conclusion and outlook
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index of shell nouns
- Index of subjects
