7. Subordination in Cognitive grammar
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Ronald W. Langacker
Abstract
This paper reexamines the treatment of subordination in Cognitive Grammar. Subordination is not susceptible to simple, categorical description. Understanding it requires the elucidation of numerous factors, with respect to which one can describe its many types, distinguish them from one another, and properly relate them to other phenomena. Among the relevant factors are asymmetries in prominence, including profiling, trajector/landmark organization, and status as the important content in a discourse. Special attention is devoted to how these interact with limited “windows of attention” in an integrated account of grammar and dynamic processing.
Abstract
This paper reexamines the treatment of subordination in Cognitive Grammar. Subordination is not susceptible to simple, categorical description. Understanding it requires the elucidation of numerous factors, with respect to which one can describe its many types, distinguish them from one another, and properly relate them to other phenomena. Among the relevant factors are asymmetries in prominence, including profiling, trajector/landmark organization, and status as the important content in a discourse. Special attention is devoted to how these interact with limited “windows of attention” in an integrated account of grammar and dynamic processing.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction vii
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Part I: Event chains and complex events
- 1. Asymmetry in English multi-verb sequences: A corpus-based approach 3
- 2. Asymmetries for locating events with Cora spatial language 25
- 3. Spanish (de)queisimo: Part/whole alternation and viewing arrangement 53
- 4. What does coordination look like in a head-final language? 87
- 5. Verb serialization as a means to express complex events in Thai 103
- 6. Notional asymmetry in syntactic symmetry: Connective and accessibility marker interactions 121
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Part II: Subordination, nominalization, modification
- 7. Subordination in Cognitive grammar 137
- 8. Asymmetric events, subordination, and grammatical categories 151
- 9. Asymmetry reversal 173
- 10. Transparency vs. Economy: How does Adioukrou resolve the conflict? 195
- 11. Relating participants across asymmetric events: Conceptual constraints on obligatory control 209
- 12. The Portugese inflected infinitive and its conceptual basis 227
- 13. The periphrastic realization of participants in nominalizations: Semantic and discourse constraints 245
- 14. Asymmetries in participial modification 261
- Author index 283
- Subject index 285
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction vii
-
Part I: Event chains and complex events
- 1. Asymmetry in English multi-verb sequences: A corpus-based approach 3
- 2. Asymmetries for locating events with Cora spatial language 25
- 3. Spanish (de)queisimo: Part/whole alternation and viewing arrangement 53
- 4. What does coordination look like in a head-final language? 87
- 5. Verb serialization as a means to express complex events in Thai 103
- 6. Notional asymmetry in syntactic symmetry: Connective and accessibility marker interactions 121
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Part II: Subordination, nominalization, modification
- 7. Subordination in Cognitive grammar 137
- 8. Asymmetric events, subordination, and grammatical categories 151
- 9. Asymmetry reversal 173
- 10. Transparency vs. Economy: How does Adioukrou resolve the conflict? 195
- 11. Relating participants across asymmetric events: Conceptual constraints on obligatory control 209
- 12. The Portugese inflected infinitive and its conceptual basis 227
- 13. The periphrastic realization of participants in nominalizations: Semantic and discourse constraints 245
- 14. Asymmetries in participial modification 261
- Author index 283
- Subject index 285
