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The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 83 ppsx
... is the landmark of the main relation. In the raised variant in
(29), the main participant in the located event is chosen as the trajector of the main
relation. Reality remains off profile, as part ... are therefore part of the
conceptualized scene. If no participant is particularly salient, the abstract location
within which the scene can be observed (i.e., the...
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 3 ppsx
... 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...
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 12 ppsx
... 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...
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...
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 23 ppsx
... 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...
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 28 ppsx
... 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...
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 40 ppsx
... 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...
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 41 ppsx
... 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...
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 49 ppsx
... 1992b. The symbolic nature of cognitive grammar: The meaning
of of and of of -periphrasis. In Martin Pu
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tz, ed., Thirty years of linguistic evolution:
Studies in honour of Rene
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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...
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 50 ppsx
... 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...