List of figures
Figure 1.Concept-linking mechanisms, examples, notational conventions
Figure 2.Verb-mediated constructions (VMCs): Prototype, major variants
Figure 3.Image schemas underlying VMCs and attribution
Figure 4.Traditional grammatical hierarchy
Figure 5.Functions fulfilled by word order in concept linking
Figure 6.The conceptual and informational background of topic, comment and focus in VMCs
Figure 7.Major interfaces between concept-linking mechanisms. Numbers in brackets refer to the classification of interface footing below
Figure 8.Copula/modifier interface contrasted with pure modifying
Figure 9.
It-constructions as ‘skeleton’ copula/modifier interfaces
Figure 10.The adverb there and the there-construction as copula/modifier interface
Figure 11.Extended copula/modifier interface with rich subject concept
Figure 12.Contrasting John is eager to please/John is easy to please
Figure 13.Extended copula/modifier interface with introductory it
Figure 14.Linking options for adverbial circumstances
Figure 15.Participant/Prepositional Phrase (PPP) interface
Figure 16.Analysis of construction with phrasal-prepositional verb
Figure 17.Clause-final adverb interface
Figure 18.The adjectival adverb interface
Figure 19.Degree adverb interface (as a variant of the participant/ perspectivizing interface)
Figure 20.Verbal, nominal, adjectival elements and non-finite interfaces
Figure 21.Plain to-infinitive and gerund interfaces
Figure 22.Plain participle interfaces
Figure 23.Concept-linking analysis of the for+noun+infinitive construction
Figure 24.Concept-linking analysis of the with+noun+participle construction and ‘full’ gerunds
Figure 25.Participant and Attributed Referent (PAR) interface
Figure 26.Comparison of the PPP/AR and PAR interfaces
Figure 27.Double attribution of with+participle constructions and non-verbal with-combinations
Figure 28.Verb+infinitive construction contrasted with complex predicate
Figure 29.Semi-modals as perspectivizers in complex predicators
Figure 30.Traditional and concept-linking analysis of the I-think-element contrasted
Figure 31.Selected aspects of the concept-linking view of early language acquisition
Figure 32.Proportions of non-verbal and verb-containing two-word-plus utterances in the pilot study of 1;6 to 3;1-year-olds
Figure 33.Development of non-verbal attribution
Figure 34.Development of verb-containing two-word-plus combinations
Figure 35.Proportion of instances of attribution (non-verbal and verb-containing) in two-word-plus combinations
Figure 36.An idealized acquisition model of the four-element put-construction
Figure 37.An idealized acquisition model of the want-construction
Figure 38.An idealized acquisition model of the copula/modifier interface
Figure 39.Proportions of one-word items, two-word-plus items and interfaces in the acquisition process of the copula/modifier interface
Figure 40.Proportional use of what’s
that/this and copula/modifier interfaces
Figure 41.Idealized acquisition model for negation perspectivizing
Figure 42.Idealized acquisition model for what-perspectivizing
Figure 43.Token frequency of auxiliaries and semi-auxiliaries as modality perspectivizers
Figure 44.Proportions of modality perspectivizing and full perspectivizing by semi-modals
Figure 45.Backdoor entry to want-VMCs with non-finite interface (based on Figure 28)
Figure 46.Backdoor entry to combinations of matrix clause and subordinate clause (based on Figure 30)