Table of contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Motivation in grammar
6. Semantic motivation of the English auxiliary 29
7. The mind as ground 49
8. Motivating the flexibility of oriented - ly adverbs 71
9. The cognitive motivation for the use of dangling participles in English 89
10. What motivates an inference? 107
11. The conceptual motivation of aspect 133
12. Metaphoric motivation in grammatical structure 149
13. Motivation in English must and Hungarian kell 171
14. The socio-cultural motivation of referent honorifics in Korean and Japanese 191
15. Part II. Motivation in the Lexicon
16. Conceptual motivation in adjectival semantics 215
17. Metonymy, metaphor and the “weekend frame of mind” 233
18. Intrinsic or extrinsic motivation? 251
19. Motivational networks 269
20. The “meaning-full” vocabulary of English and German 287
21. Name index 299
22. Subject index 303