The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 100 pps

... patterns of frequency of use. This constitutes, then, another case in which the way language is used determines the direction of change. 3.3. The Domain of Analogical Leveling A paradigm (the set of ... verbs in favor of a two-way distinction, which parallels the actual developments at the end of the Old English period through the beginning of the Middle Engli...

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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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... 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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... 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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... characterization of central grammatical notions such as ‘subject’ and ‘direct object’. The subject is the head of the profiled portion of the action chain or the participant that is farthest upstream ... between the instrument and the patient, (49) on the patient’s state of change, and (50)onthe agent’s manipulation of the instrument. Although for a full analysis o...

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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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... profile to near the door (which profiles the relationship of proximity, not the door), and the table to the table near the door (which profiles the table). Called the profile determinant, the prevailing ... near the door constitutes an extension vis-a ` -vis the door, and the table near the door vis-a ` -vis near the door, owing to discrepancies in the nature of...

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