Grzegorz Drożdż

List of John Benjamins publications in which Grzegorz Drożdż is involved.

Titles

Motivation in Language: A cognitive perspective

Edited by Grzegorz Drożdż and Barbara Taraszka-Drożdż

Why do languages take the forms they do, and why do speakers choose particular expressions to construct meaning? This volume addresses these questions from a cognitive-linguistic perspective, viewing motivation as the outcome of interacting linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. Across twelve… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 83] 2027. vi, 314 pp. + index

Studies in Lexicogrammar: Theory and applications

Edited by Grzegorz Drożdż

The leitmotif, but not exclusive theme, of the present volume is Ronald Langacker’s (1987) thesis that “lexicon, morphology, and syntax form a continuum of symbolic units serving to structure conceptual content for expressive purposes”. The concept of the lexicogrammar continuum contrasts… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 54] 2016. vii, 284 pp.

Drożdż, Grzegorz 2027 Chapter 7. The motivation of semantic shifts between different categories of nouns: The case of craft Motivation in Language: A cognitive perspective, Drożdż, Grzegorz and Barbara Taraszka-Drożdż (eds.), pp. 153–182 | Chapter

This chapter investigates the motivation behind selected semantic extensions of the English noun craft that co-occur with shifts across four nominal categories: count, mass, zero plural, and plurale tantum. Drawing on diachronic lexicographic evidence, primarily from the Oxford English… read more

Drożdż, Grzegorz and Barbara Taraszka-Drożdż 2027 Introduction: From classical debates on motivation to cognitive approaches Motivation in Language: A cognitive perspective, Drożdż, Grzegorz and Barbara Taraszka-Drożdż (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Chapter

Drożdż, Grzegorz 2022 Metonymic patterns of count-to-mass and mass-to-count changes and their implications for metonymy research Figurativity and Human Ecology, Bagasheva, Alexandra, Bozhil Hristov and Nelly Tincheva (eds.), pp. 251–273 | Chapter

This chapter formulates a proposal for dealing with two of the notorious problems of countability and uncountability in English: the problem of nouns changing their grammatical properties from count to mass and mass to count, and establishing the regularities of such changes. On the basis of the… read more

Drożdż, Grzegorz 2016 Introduction: Theoretical, methodological, and practical problems in the study of lexicogrammar Studies in Lexicogrammar: Theory and applications, Drożdż, Grzegorz (ed.), pp. 1–20 | Article

Drożdż, Grzegorz 2016 From the meaning of the concrete noun to its grammatical property and back Studies in Lexicogrammar: Theory and applications, Drożdż, Grzegorz (ed.), pp. 95–120 | Article

The property of countability and uncountability is one of important characteristics of English nouns. At the same time, it is an issue of considerable controversy. On the one hand, Huddleston and Pullum (2002: 334) maintain that many nouns can be used with count and mass interpretations. On the… read more

Drożdż, Grzegorz 2012 14. Conceptualizing the present through construal aspects: The case of the English temporal constructions Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition, Filipović, Luna and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (eds.), pp. 305–328 | Article

Since the grammar of every language can divide temporal reality in a different manner, this chapter aims to present a method of arriving at the understanding of one of its dimensions – the present – encoded in the structures of English. These structures consist of eleven temporal and aspectual… read more