Levels of description and constraining factors in meaning construction: an introduction to the Lexical Constructional Model
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Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
This paper presents an outline of the Lexical Constructional Model, a meaning construction model that integrates insights from functional models of language (especially, Role and Reference Grammar) and Cognitive Linguistics (especially, Goldberg's Construction Grammar and Lakoff's Cognitive Semantics). The initial claim is that a theory of semantic interpretation should be constructed on the basis of two representational mechanisms, lexical and constructional templates, and two basic cognitive operations, subsumption and conceptual cueing, that specify in what ways meaning representations from different levels may interact. It is further shown that both lexical-constructional subsumption and purely constructional subsumption –at any stage of the meaning construction process– is regulated by an inventory of both internal and external constraints. Internal constraints involve the semantic units encoded in a lexical or a constructional template, while external constraints result from the possibility or impossibility of performing high-level metaphoric and/or metonymic operations on the items involved in the subsumption or cueing processes.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Grammaticalization, subjectification and leftward movement of English adjectives of difference in the noun phrase
- German Glide Formation and the suffix –esk
- Explorations in automated language classification
- Levels of description and constraining factors in meaning construction: an introduction to the Lexical Constructional Model
- Grammaticalisation under Control: towards a functional analysis of same-subject identity-sharing
- Book reviews
- Acknowledgements
- Conference announcement: 42nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
- Publications received
- Index to Volume 42
