General introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editors and contributors vii
4. Series Editors’ Preface ix
5. Foreword xiii
6. Abbreviations xv
7. Introduction to this volume 1
8. General introduction 7
9. Part I. Morphological, lexical and syntactic constructions
10. Chapter 1. When constructions meet context 47
11. Chapter 2. On the partial productivity of constructions 73
12. Chapter 3. A corpus-based study of subjectification and the disposal construction in modern Mandarin 95
13. Chapter 4. Types of negatives and the noun-verb distinction in English and Chinese 121
14. Chapter 5. The conceptual spatialization of actions or activities in Chinese 157
15. Part II. Cognitive pragmatics
16. Chapter 6. Structural salience and referential accessibility 185
17. Chapter 7. Complementing cognitive linguistics with pragmatics and vice versa 207
18. Part III. Neurocognition and psycholinguistics
19. Chapter 8. A neurocognitive approach to Chinese idiom comprehension 227
20. Chapter 9. The role of metaphor in categorization 261
21. Chapter 10. Linguistic and mental representations of caused motion in Chinese and English children 285
22. Author index 309
23. Subject index 311