The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 15 ppsx

... components of English horn, and that eaves and drop are components of eavesdrop; that is, the participation of these words in the construction is clear even though the nature of their participation ... a need for further specification of the nature of the object (land- mark) of a process, the elaborative link from the food specification to the toast ful- fills that...

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... include Death Is the Mother of Beauty: Mind, Metaphor, Criticism (1987); Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science (1991); The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and ... is emeritus professor of English linguistics at the University of Rostock, Germany. He was attracted to Cognitive Linguistics in the early 1990s and has worked ma...

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... so on. They are in fact the theme of Oakley (this volume, chapter 9). But the commonality of these with all other direct abstractions is significant and worth discussing. 2.4. The Ubiquity of Schematicity As ... None of these schemas can be expected to exist in all the world’s languages, much less among all the speakers of all those languages (though, of course, as the...

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... that they can generate the same set of forms)? This is a more crucial question within Cognitive Linguistics than it is within other areas of linguistics, since practitioners of Cognitive Linguistics ... 326). The following metaphor 197 in experience. (An account on these lines also has the important advantage of explaining why many of the most salient aspects of b...

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... continuation of the first utterance (see Panther and Thornburg 2003a), whereas and then they (¼ the workmen) did some work on the house sounds somewhat disruptive. The accessibility of the target from the ... expressions. On the syntagmatic axis, the (compositional) relation between the meanings of constituent parts and what they contribute to the meaning of the w...

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... stage of the discourse, one of the spaces is a base for the system, and one of the spaces (possibly the same one) is in focus. Construction at the next stage will be relative either to the Base ... readings. If the context for this sentence is the making of a movie, and the speaker is Kirk Douglas and the addressee Jane Fonda, there will be nine readings, because...

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... learned or developed them. Grammatical constructions are such entrenched units, and the origin of human language is a byproduct of the evolution of the most advanced form of blending, known as ... bonding. (iii) There is a fourth mental space, the blended space, often called ‘ the blend.’’ It is in this space that the man is in the process of marrying his girlfriend. (i...

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... 1992b. The symbolic nature of cognitive grammar: The meaning of of and of of -periphrasis. In Martin Pu ¨ tz, ed., Thirty years of linguistic evolution: Studies in honour of Rene ´ Dirven on the ... Publications. cognitive grammar 455 Langacker, Ronald W. 2002a. The control cycle: Why grammar is a matter of life and death. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of th...

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... sentence. The phonological component, for ex- ample, consists of the rules and constraints governing the sound structure of a sentence of the language. The syntactic component consists of the rules ... types. A theory of grammar should capture the differences among these types of idioms and their relationship to the regular lexicon and regular syntactic rules of...

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... like the action type ‘Cleaning one’s teeth’—a stored concept for a particular kind of action (the action of saying the relevant sounds) for a particular purpose and in a particular kind of social ... one performed by John and the other by Bill; but if each of the girls isa the one implicated in ‘Kissing a girl’, the girls may be either the same or different. In other wo...

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