The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 119 pptx

... Demecheleer hypothesize that the lack of the causal sense of the French derri  eere causes more comprehension problems than may be evident in regard to the other figurative senses of behind. They suggest ... conceptualizing gestures, may illustrate the schematic nature of grammatical meaning. We may conclude that the theory of Cognitive Linguistics, as applied to the...

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... from other forms of cognition, the disciplines studying those other aspects of human knowledge will be natural conversation partners for Cognitive Linguistics. 5. The Appeal of Cognitive Linguistics ... think of the projec- tions and theta-roles of Generative Grammar, of the central role of the lexicon in Lexical-Functional Grammar, and of the lexically dri...

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... omits the description of the actual process of the car hitting the wall and the vehemence of the process encoded in the verb crash; both (8b) and (8c) are odd, to say the least, and focus on the ... up the variable of frequency in order to measure the degree of entrenchment of the concepts un- derlying the Dutch lexical field of clothing terms. Their met...

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... it contains are of the same kind, the library exploits the notion of collection, which piggybacks on the opposition between part and whole. Physically possessing one of these contained objects in the collection ... instance of the source-path-goal schema. A re- lated model focuses attention not on the thing itself but on the container of the thing given, as in a...

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... 17.1, where the profile is the ‘‘onstage’’ focus of attention, which the speaker and hearer view from their offstage vantage point, the ground. Of course, the viewing frame can be directed at the ground ... and the complex mental constructions required for a coherent understanding of the whole expression. While rules of semantic composition are certainly part of th...

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... the nineteenth century, the Means and Manner way- constructions appear to merge. At the same time that the class of verbs in the way-construction is expanding, the overall syntactic form of the ... number of aspects of constructing a model of grammatical representation need further devel- opment. Some of these aspects have been alluded to in the course of this pr...

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... delimit the verbal segment, so that ‘ the subject is consistently the ‘head’ of the profiled portion of the action chain,’’ whereas ‘ the object is the ‘tail’ of the profiled portion of the action ... is either the Agent, or the Instrument, or the Patient (the symbols # indicate here, in Croft 1991’s style, the head and tail of the profiled action chain) F H...

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... orientation toward Netherlandic Dutch: the standardization of Belgian Dutch took the form of an adoption of the Dutch standard language that existed already in the Netherlands. In addition, the unfin- ished ... Dutch then survived basically in the form of a variety of Flemish dialects. However, as a result of a social and political struggle for the emancipation of F...

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... focuses on the intersection of cultural knowledge with the se- mantic component of Cognitive Grammar. In the theory of Cognitive Grammar, the semantic component includes Idealized Cognitive Models ... con- structions of voice predicate highly schematic scenarios that characterize either the influence of agents on other participants, the degree of control over even...

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... both of them) plays a role in the sign’s formation, it is quite possi- ble, given the testimony of all of the world’s signed languages so far studied, that the hand’s configuration signifies the ... formal survey of the world’s signed languages has ever been con- ducted, it is generally recognized that they number in the hundreds. The thirteenth edition of the Summer...

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