Constructions in Cognitive Linguistics

Selected papers from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997

Editors

Ad Foolen

| University of Nijmegen

Frederike van der Leek

| University of Amsterdam

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This volume contains selected papers from the 5th ICLC, Amsterdam 1997. The papers present cognitive analyses of a variety of constructions (phrasal verbs, prepositional phrases, transitivity, accusative versus dative objects, possessives, gerunds, passives, causatives, conditionals), in a variety of languages (English, German, Dutch, Polish, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Thai, Fijian). Besides analyses of objective construal, the volume reflects the increasing interest in subjectivity (grounding and speaker involvement). It also includes, lastly, contributions on the acquisition and agrammatic loss of constructions.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 178] 2000. xvi, 338 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.178

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Editors’ Foreword	ix
Pragmatic Conditionals Angeliki Athanasiadou and René Dirven †	1
How Polish Structures Space: Prepositions, Direction Nouns, Case, and Metaphor Barbara Dancygier	27
Case Meaning and Sequence of Attention: Source Landmarks as Accusative and Dative Objects of the Verb Robert B. Dewell	47
Fijian Children’s Possessive Categories and Constructions Patrick D. Griffiths	67
Facing up to the Meaning of ‘face up to’: A Cognitive Semantico-Pragmatic Analysis of an English Verb-Particle Construction Beate Hampe	81
Gerundive Nominalization: From Type Specification to Grounded Instance Liesbet Heyvaert	103
A Cognitive Approach to Errors in Case Marking in Japanese Agrammatism: The Priority of the Goal -ni over the Source -kara Hiroko Ihara and Ikuyo Fujita	123
Verbal Aspect and Construal Agata Kochańska	141
How I got myself arrested: Underspecificity in Grammatical Blends as a Source for Constructional Ambiguity Nili Mandelblit and Gilles Fauconnier	167
Konjunktiv II and Epistemic Modals in German: A Division of Labour Tanja Mortelmans	191
Subjectivity and Conditionality: The Marking of Speaker Involvement in Modern Greek Kiki Nikiforidou and Demetra Katis	217
English Imperatives and Passives Hidemitsu Takahashi	239
Lexical Causatives in Thai Kingkarn Thepkanjana	259
Cognitive Models in Transitive Construal in the Japanese Adversative Passive Eijiro Tsuboi	283
Caused-Motion and the ‘Bottom-Up’ Role of Grammar Frederike van der Leek	301
Addresses	333
Index	335

“[...] and it offers a genuinely representative sample of cognitively spirited case studies on a wide range of constrcutions attested in different languages.”

Rita Brdar-Szabó in Linguistische Berichte 195, 2003

“[...] the book as a whole is a nice illustration of how various cognitive mechanisms, especially construal, can be brought to bear on the analysis of patterns above word level.”

Bert Cappelle, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in Cognitive Linguistics Vol 13-3 (2002)

Subjects

Linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Syntax

Cognition and language

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 99089845