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How Grammar Links Concepts: Verb-mediated constructions, attribution, perspectivizingFriedrich Ungerer
[Human Cognitive Processing 57] 2017
► pp. v–x
Friedrich Ungerer
[Human Cognitive Processing 57] 2017
► pp. v–x
Table of contents
List of maps and figures
List of tables
Chapter 1Introduction
1.1The present situation
1.2Revived insights of traditional functionalism
1.3The contribution of image schemas
1.4The role of perspectives
1.5A first summary of concept-linking mechanisms
1.6The role of interfaces
1.7Concept linking and language acquisition
1.8The structure of the book
1.9The status of the examples
Part 1.Basics
Chapter 2Mechanisms of concept linking
2.1Verb-mediated constructions (VMCs)
2.1.1GENT-driven VMCs
2.1.2Other types of VMCs
2.2Attribution
2.2.1Attribution as modifying
2.2.2Attribution as circumstancing
2.2.3Attribution in complex sentences
2.3Perspectivizing and scope phenomena
2.3.1Sentence modes as grammaticalized perspectives
2.3.2Deixis, agreement and TAM perspectives
2.3.3Negation, perspective and the grammaticalization of scope
2.3.4Perspectivizing use of adverbs
2.4The inherent meaning of scope and attribution
2.5Evidence for concept linking in spoken language
2.6A first overview of concept-linking mechanisms
2.7Postscript on concept-linking and image schemas
2.7.1Relationship of PATH, CONTAINER, and PART-WHOLE to other image schemas
2.7.2The spatial background of image schemas
2.7.3Neurological claims for image schemas
Chapter 3Hierarchy in concept linking
3.1Introductory remarks on grammatical hierarchies
3.2VMC and attribution hierarchies
3.2.1The ‘flatness’ of the VMC hierarchy
3.2.2The hierarchical flexibility of attribution
3.3Hierarchical aspects of perspectivizing and scope
3.3.1Hierarchical levels
3.3.2Scope differentiation for viewpoint and person-oriented adverbs
3.3.3Scope hierarchy vs. scope competition: How time & frequency adverbs, emphasizers, and not-negation function
3.3.4The scope behavior of epistemic and deontic modals
3.4Interlocking hierarchies: An example
3.5 Postscript on the notions of clause and sentence
3.5.1The notion of clause
3.5.2The notion of complex sentence
Chapter 4Restrictions on concept linking
4.1Restrictions on VMCs and attribution contrasted
4.2Restrictions on perspectivizing
Chapter 5Signaling concept linking: Word order, morphology, and function words
5.1The role of word order in concept linking
5.1.1A preliminary classification
5.1.2Word order as serialization of concept representations
5.1.3Word order as adjacency of concept representations
5.1.4Word order as indication of scope extension and the position of scope signals
5.2The role of morphology and function words in concept linking
5.3Word order, morphology, and function words: An overview
Chapter 6Concept linking, topic, comment, and focus
6.1Introductory remarks on the influence of conceptual salience and informational prominence
6.2Topic and comment in concept linking
6.2.1The narrow interpretation challenged: Topic-comment only as subject and predicate?
6.2.2The wide interpretation: Topic-comment in attribution and perspectivizing
6.3Introducing focusing
6.4Positional focusing
6.4.1Positional focusing and the focus potential of VMCs
6.4.2Focusing, scene-setting, and circumstancing
6.4.3Complex focusing and scene-setting constructions (cleft sentences)
6.5Perspectival focusing
6.5.1Focusing adverbs, perspectival and positional focusing
6.5.2Perspectival focusing vs. scope
6.5.3Focus dominance vs. scope dominance in perspectivizing
6.5.4Scope and focus of connective adverbs
6.5.5Scope and focus of not-negation
6.5.6Scope and focus of TAM phenomena and sentence modes
6.6Postscript on the role of GIVEN and NEW
Part 2.Interfaces
Chapter 7Introductory remarks on interfaces in concept linking
Chapter 8Interfaces of verb-mediated constructions and attribution
8.1Interfaces of VMCs and modifying
8.1.1The copula/modifier interface
8.1.2Extended copula interfaces and adjective complements
8.1.3Other types of interfaces between VMCs and modifying
8.2Interfaces of VMCs and circumstancing
8.2.1Circumstancing, VMC integration and interfaces
8.2.2Locative interfaces between circumstancing and VMCs
8.2.3Interfaces for DIRECTION, SOURCE, COURSE and GOAL
8.2.4TIME WHEN and TIME DURATION in concept linking
8.2.5TIME FREQUENCY in concept linking
8.2.6Interfaces for AGENT, INSTRUMENT, METHOD and plain MANNER
8.2.7Participant/circumstance interfaces: An overview
8.3Participant/circumstance interfaces, prepositional verbs and phrasal verbs
8.3.1Constructions with prepositional verbs as interfaces
8.3.2Constructions with phrasal verbs
Chapter 9Interfaces of perspectivizing and attribution (adverb interfaces)
9.1Interfaces of perspectivizing and circumstancing
9.1.1Clause-final manner interfaces
9.1.2Clause-final position of frequency and viewpoint adverbs: Interface or afterthought?
9.2Adjectival adverbs
9.2.1Adjectival adverbs as interface phenomenon
9.2.2Adjectival adverbs and elementary adjectives
9.3Perspectivizing, modifying, and interfaces to express degree
9.3.1
ly-adverbs of degree as perspectivizers
9.3.2Adjectival adverbs of degree as modifiers
9.3.3Measure-based degree adverbs
9.3.4Sort of and kind of as degree adverbs
9.3.5Adverbs expressing degree: An overview
Chapter 10Non-finite constructions as interfaces of VMCs, attribution, and perspectivizing
10.1Introduction
10.2Outline of the concept-linking analysis of non-finite constructions
10.2.1Plain non-finite constructions as interfaces
10.2.2Notional subjects of non-finite constructions as attributed referents
10.2.3‘Object+infinitive’ and related constructions as interfaces
10.3Selected phenomena of non-finite interfaces
10.3.1Non-finite interfaces introduced by for and other prepositions
10.3.2Subject-related and speaker-related participles as circumstances
10.3.3Absolute participles and with constructions
10.4Postscript on the terminology of gerund and participles
Chapter 11Interfaces and the grammaticalization of perspectivizers
11.1Interfaces and cross-mechanism grammaticalization
11.2From verb+infinitive to complex predicates with modal perspectivizers
11.3From two VMCs to viewpoint perspectivizer+VMC
11.3.1Statements introduced by I think, etc.
11.3.2Questions introduced by (what) do you think
11.4Final overview of interfaces
Part 3.Language acquisition
Chapter 12Introductory remarks on concept-linking in language acquisition
Chapter 13Temporal priority of attribution in early language acquisition
13.1Early attribution and the pilot corpus
13.2Non-verbal two-word-plus items as attribution
13.2.1Early attribution links (EALs)
13.2.2Pivot structures
13.2.3Attribution and caregiver speech (CDS)
13.3Verb-containing two-word-plus items as attribution
Chapter 14The emergence of VMCs and copula interfaces
14.1The role of the subject participant in acquiring VMCs
14.2The put-construction as acquisition model
14.3The want-construction as acquisition model
14.4From deictic attribution to copula/modifier interfaces
Chapter 15The development of perspectivizing mechanisms
15.1Concept-linking and the notion of partial achievement
15.2The perspectivizing of negation
15.3Interrogative perspectivizing
15.3.1Questions introduced by what
15.3.2Questions introduced by where and by other interrogatives
15.3.3
Yes/no-questions
15.4The perspectivizing of TAM modality
15.5Perspectivizing and the backdoor entry to complex constructions
15.5.1From modal perspectivizers to object+infinitive constructions
15.5.2From viewpoint perspectivizers to complex sentences
15.5.3Postscript on relative clauses
Chapter 16Conclusion and outlook
16.1Concept linking, traditional grammar, other linguistic approaches
16.2Temporal priorities in language acquisition
16.3Outlook: Graded transfer claims for cross-linguistic application
References
Name index
Subject index
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