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On Interpreting Construction Schemas

From Action and Motion to Transitivity and Causality
  • Edited by: Nicole Delbecque and Bert Cornillie
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2007
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This volume addresses the constructional variability with transitive and causative verbs from the point of view of their respective action and motion patterns. Drawing on the theoretical advances registered in cognitive approaches to language (Cognitive Grammar, Construction Grammar and space semantics), the papers substantiate new interpretations and adduce empirical evidence from various languages to refine or adjust existing analyses of transitivity and causation.

The different contributions all address the crucial question of how concrete and abstract notions of human behavior drive linguistic expressions. Cognitive linguists consider that linguistic competence functions in terms of complex conceptual units: the native speaker knows and manipulates conceptual blocks without paying further attention to their constitutive parts or their internal organization. However, as this volume illustrates, the role of the constitutive parts and their internal organization cannot simply be reduced to zero. A multidimensional approach to construction schemas is at stake. That is, the speaker applies proper embodied subroutines to build a coherent meaning, but the construction schemas are also rooted in the linguistic patterns the speaker and hearer are familiar with.

The volume is primarily intended for scholars working within cognitive-semantic research at large. Given its theoretical and applied character (in the sense of giving empirical evidence for specific problems in the grammar), the volume will also be of great interest to anyone concerned with syntactic processes, construction grammar or with the cognitive structure of discourse. The descriptive and theoretical insights indeed dwell on areas that are currently dealt with in modern linguistics.

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Nicole Delbecque and Bert Cornillie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

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    Table of contents

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    Introduction

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    Nicole Delbecque and Bert Cornillie
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    A usage-based approach to prototypical transitivity

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    Victoria Vázquez Rozas
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    Transitivity and referentiality in Spanish and Rumanian

    39
    Eugeen Roegiest
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    Transitive verbs with non-accusative alternation in Hebrew: Cross-language comparison with English, German and Spanish

    61
    Rivka Halevy
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    Unsubcategorized objects in English resultative constructions

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    Cristiano Broccias
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    Complex predicates in Basque

    125
    Cathryn Donohue
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    An adversative passive in English: in search of origins

    143
    Junichi Toyota
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    Verbs of letting: Some cognitive and historical aspects

    171
    Augusto Soares Silva
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    Syntactic and semantic integration in the Spanish causative-reflexive construction

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    José M. García-Miguel
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    Soft causatives in Spanish

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    Ricardo Maldonado
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    Two causal alternatives: carry vs. push type constructions in English

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    Natalya Schmidt
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    Grammar of “manner of motion” verbs in English and Spanish: between lexicon and syntax

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    Yuko Morimoto
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    On the nature of lexicalization patterns: a crosslinguistic inquiry

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    Luna Filipović
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    The semantics of space: A study of the prefix proin Serbian

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    Dejan Stosic
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December 19, 2007
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9783110198652
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110207842
eBook ISBN: 9783110207842
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110198652
Keywords for this book
Cognitive Linguistics; Semantics
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Scholars and Advanced Students of the Cognitive-Semantic Field, Syntactic Processes, Construction Grammar, the Cognitive Structure of Discourse, Research Libraries
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