Studies in Lexicogrammar: Theory and applications
Edited by Grzegorz Drożdż
[Human Cognitive Processing, 54] 2016. vii, 284 pp.
Grzegorz Drożdż
List of John Benjamins publications for which Grzegorz Drożdż plays a role.
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Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Morphology | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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
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
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
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