Complementation

Cognitive and functional perspectives

Editor

Kaoru Horie | Tohoku University

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ISBN 9789027238863 (Eur) | EUR 85.00

ISBN 9781556192111 (USA) | USD 128.00

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Complementation, i.e. predication encoded in argument slots, is well-renowned for its syntactic and semantic variability across languages. As such, it poses a tantalizing descriptive/explanatory challenge to linguists of any theoretical persuasion.
Recent developments in Cognitive and Functional-typological linguistics have enabled researchers to address various unexplored research questions on complementation phenomena. The seven papers included in this volume represent the most recent endeavors to explore cognitive-functional foundations of complementation phenomena from various theoretical perspectives (Cognitive Grammar, Mental Space Theory, Typology, Discourse-functional linguistics, Cognitive Science). The seven papers are prefaced by an introductory chapter (Kaoru Horie and Bernard Comrie) which situates the current volume within the major complementation studies of the past forty years. This work presents a new theoretical venue of complementation studies and enhances our understanding of this complex yet intriguing syntactic and semantic phenomenon.

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 1] 2000. vi, 242 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/celcr.1

Table of Contents

Introduction

Kaoru Horie and Bernard Comrie | pp. 1–10

Complementation in Japanese and Korean: A contrastive and cognitive linguistic approach

Kaoru Horie | pp. 11–31

De dicto complementation in Japanese

Satoko Suzuki | pp. 33–57

Variation in Complementation Constructions: Long-Distance Agreement in Tsez

Maria Polinsky | pp. 59–90

Construal and Complementation in French: The Perspective Dimension

Michel Achard | pp. 91–120

Nominalization as complementation in Bella Coola and Lushootseed

David Beck | pp. 121–147

Cognitive constraints on complement clause cliticization in Spanish

Nicole Delbecque | pp. 149–198

Iconicity in English complement constructions: Conceptual distance and cognitive processing levels

Marjolijn H. Verspoor | pp. 199–225

Glossary | pp. 227–233

Name index | pp. 235–236

Subject index | pp. 237–241

“[...] an example of how cognitive and functional convergence can contribute to the exploration of complementation [...].”

Jürgen Jaspers, Pragmatics, Vol. 11, No. 3

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Duffley, Patrick J.

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