Bridges between generative and cognitive linguistics

Chapters in this book

1. I-XX I
2. Theoretical issues
3. Bridges between generative and cognitive linguistics 3
4. Lexical semantics and morphology
5. A modular approach to the semantics of space in language 23
6. Beer and semantics 35
7. Is everything black and white in conceptual oppositions? 57
8. Categorization and analogical change: The case of athematic 1sg -m in the Slavic languages 75
9. Contrast and schemas: Antonymous adjectives 97
10. Figurative giving 113
11. Nominalizations, metonymy and lexicographic practice 141
12. Langacker semantics for three Coeur d'Alene prefixes glossed as ‘on’ 165
13. Aspects of prepositions and prepositional aspect 225
14. Some aspects of relational nouns 249
15. Prototype marker or reflexive marker: Russian -sja and categorical change 277
16. Metaphor
17. The strengths and weaknesses of the left/right polarity in Russian: diachronic and synchronic semantic analyses 299
18. ‘Unnatural barriers’: Why metaphor matters (or, linguistics meets the geopolitics of law) 331
19. Through as a means to metaphor 347
20. Is metaphor really a one-way street? One of the basic tenets of the cognitive theory of metaphor put to the test 367
21. Syntax and semantics
22. Samoan as an active zone language 391
23. Two transitive construction frames in Spanish: The prepositional and the non-prepositional accusative 407
24. Swedish abstract transitional phrases: An in-between phenomenon in the linguistic system 425
25. Grammatical relations in Spanish triactant clauses 447
26. Degrees of subjectivity in epistemic modals and perspective representation 471
27. Biactant Spanish clauses. Syntactic markedness and semantic prototype 491
28. To infinitives 505
29. Adverbial placement and iconicity 527
30. Pragmatics
31. Nominal vs. temporal interpretation in discourse 549
32. Markedness and prototypical speaker attributes 567
33. Computational Linguistics
34. Implementing cognitive semantics – overview of the semantic composition processes and insights into the grammatical composition processes 579
35. Subject index 601
36. Cognitive Linguistics Research 607