The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 85 docx

... one in which the state of the room being dark follows but does not precede the event of the first sentence. (35) John switched off the light. It was pitch dark in the room because the Venetian ... the basis of the grammatical constructions in which they occur. (He makes a similar point for the test involving adverbials as in 27 and 28). Croft, therefore, seriously que...

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... the levels of investigation in cognitive science. The most basic organizing criterion of this theoretical framework is the scale of the relative physical sizes of the phenomena which produce the different ... various levels of investi- gation due to the constraints of the observational apparatus and method, the ‘‘Tasks’’ column of this theoretical framework s...

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... verhagen at the end of section 3). But it may also consist in an increase of the role of the construal relation or the ground in the profile of an expression, or (what ultimately may be part of the same ... charge of the election process and has just completed the count of the votes). The use of might relates to the epistemic stance of the president....

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... reflection of the nature of Cognitive Linguistics as it is understood by its practitioners. If Cognitive Linguistics is the study of ways in which features of language reflect other aspects of human ... to a unified theory of the structure of human behavior. The Hague: Mouton. Quinn, Naomi. 1991. The cultural basis of metaphor. In James W. Fernandez, ed., Beyond...

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... most of the components just identified do not come readily to mind on hearing the verb pry. (3) a. I pried the board off the wall. b. I pulled the board off the wall. c. I flipped the board off the ... are taken to be the relevant ones. (9) a. The landlord rented the apartment to the tenant. b. The tenant rented the apartment from the landlord. Factor Ba2 underli...

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... space, we have the event of 1853 ; in a second, we have the event of 1993. These are the input spaces to the blend. There is a partial cross- space mapping that connects counterparts in the input mental ... blends out of the same inputs. The process is the same in all of them, but the results are different. In The shovel is safe, the child is the victim in the...

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... involved. These struc- tures include the interlocutors’ apprehension of each other, of their interaction, of the context, and of the ongoing discourse itself. With respect to generative doc- trine, Cognitive ... 17 COGNITIVE GRAMMAR ronald w. langacker 1. Background Research leading to the formulation of Cognitive Grammar began in the spring of 1976. On the...

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... mixing of spheres in metaphor is the following: ‘‘A boy, eight years of age, observes the mo- tion of the long antennae of a butterfly and explains that the animal is ‘knitting socks’ (motion of knitting ... Mouton de Gruyter. cognitive linguistics and the history of linguistics 607 interconnected nodes or nections. All the information, however, is in the in- te...

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... the voice pattern in which the event is construed. In these lan- guages, the selection of a participant as the trajector of the clause implies no de- motion of other participants. In this respect, ... trajector, as is the case for the languages of the Philippines, voice is very productive and flexible. Indeed, the selection of a particular participant as the tra-...

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... out the lower element, as in The table is below the lamp. The technical term for the Figure is trajector, while the other participant in the relation (if there is one) is termed the landmark. These ... in the relation. One of the participants stands out as the Figure, while the rest of the relational conception—including any other participants—is construed as th...

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