In:Personification in Language and Thought: Conceptual models, lexicogrammatical structures, and distributional patterns in Hungarian
Gábor Simon
[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 27] 2026
► pp. v–vii
This content is being prepared for publication; it may be subject to changes.
Table of contents
Preface
Acknowledgement
Chapter 1.Introduction
1.1The category of personification
1.2A cognitive corpus linguistic approach to personification
1.3Outline of the volume
Chapter 2.Conceptualizing personification
2.1Personification and metaphor
2.2Personification and metonymy
2.3Personification and conceptual integration
2.4A cumulative model of personifying meaning: An integrative approach
2.5Summary
Chapter 3.Material and methods
3.1The PerSE corpus — material, sampling, infrastructure
3.2A lexical semantic approach to linguistic personification —
principles and categories
principles and categories
3.3Annotation of personifications in the PerSE corpus —
labels, steps, reliability
labels, steps, reliability
3.3.1Layers of the annotation I: The ptags layer
3.3.2Layers of the annotation II: The prel layer
3.3.3Layers of the annotation III: The pqual layer
3.3.4Identification of linguistic personifications:
Guidelines and reliability
Guidelines and reliability
3.4Challenges to the annotation of linguistic personifications
3.4.1Establishing the human basic meaning
3.4.2Borderline cases between metaphor and personification
3.4.3Borderline cases between metonymy and personification
3.4.4Difficulties in the classification of linguistic
personifications
3.4.5Issues emerging from the grammatical behavior of words
and multi-word expressions
and multi-word expressions
3.5Summary
Chapter 4.The lexicogrammar of personification
4.1The lexicogrammatical approach — a brief theoretical introduction
4.2The grammar of personification — from descriptive to cognitive
approaches
4.3Personifications in the corpus — frequency and distribution
4.4Personification and word class in the corpus
4.5The constructions of personifications — lexicogrammatical
patterns
4.5.1Personifications as idiomatic word-combinations
4.5.2The n-gram approach
4.5.3Semantic relations in multi-word personifications
4.5.4Complex personifications
4.5.5Constructions of personification — a three-dimensional
proposal
4.6Summary
Chapter 5.The variability of linguistic personification across registers
5.1Domains, features, markers, and complexity — key notions of the register
analytical approach and preliminary results from metaphor research
5.2The dispersion of linguistic personifications in the PerSE corpus
5.3Register-specific tendencies of linguistic personifications in
Hungarian: Quantitative analyses
5.4The variability of lexicogrammatical features of linguistic
personifications across registers
5.4.1The relationship between word classes and linguistic personification
from the perspective of register variation
5.4.2Trajector/landmark alignment of personifying expressions in different
registers
5.4.3The distribution of complex personifications in the
subcorpora
5.4.4Register-specific lexicogrammatical patterns of personifications —
a keyness analysis
a keyness analysis
5.4.5Personifying usage of individual words across registers
5.5Summary
Chapter 6.Scaling up the analysis: From the PerSE corpus
to representative corpora of Hungarian
to representative corpora of Hungarian
6.1Exploring personifications in large corpora: Data types
and methodology
and methodology
6.1.1The HNC2-UD and the huTenTen12 corpus
6.1.2Approaches to corpus-based analysis of linguistic
personifications in large corpora
personifications in large corpora
6.1.3The corpus-driven analysis of linguistic personifications
in large corpora: Simple collexeme analysis
in large corpora: Simple collexeme analysis
6.2The corpus-based analysis: Results and discussion
6.2.1The lexical approach: Personifications as collocational patterns
6.2.2The grammatical approach: Personification as word
class sequence
class sequence
6.2.3The lexicogrammatical approach: Personifications
as mosaic n-grams
as mosaic n-grams
6.2.4Interim summary — the extended corpus-based analysis
of linguistic personifications
of linguistic personifications
6.3The corpus-driven analysis: Results and discussion
6.3.1Personification as word-construction association
6.3.2The semantic preferences of the constructional pattern
in personifications
in personifications
6.3.3Interim summary — the corpus-driven analysis
of linguistic personifications
of linguistic personifications
6.4Summary
Chapter 7.Conclusions
References
Appendix
