Gábor Simon

List of John Benjamins publications in which Gábor Simon is involved.

Title

Personification in Language and Thought: Conceptual models, lexicogrammatical structures, and distributional patterns in Hungarian

Gábor Simon

This monograph offers the first comprehensive account of personification in Hungarian, a subtle yet pervasive feature of everyday cognition and language. Combining cognitive linguistics with corpus-based and corpus-driven analyses, it reveals how personifying meaning is conceptually structured,… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 27] 2026. xiii, 271 pp. + index

Articles

Kugler, Nóra, László Palágyi and Gábor Simon 2026 Chapter 13. From temporality to dynamicity: A data-based analysis of Hungarian verbal and participial constructions Thinking and Speaking About Time: A cognitive linguistic approach, Brdar Szabó, Rita and Mario Brdar (eds.), pp. 351–383 | Chapter

The chapter investigates within the cognitive linguistic framework of verb semantics how the specific nature of various event structures (e.g., manipulation of objects, dynamic motion, perception) contributes to the construal of temporal meaning in the elaboration of present (continuous)… read more

Simon, Gábor 2023 The perspective of the other: A corpus-based analysis of visual perception in Hungarian elegiac poetry Perception, Culture and Language, Baranyiné Kóczy, Judit and Rita Brdar Szabó (eds.), pp. 342–366 | Article

The central question of the paper is whether visual perception serves as a grounding cognitive act for experiencing and reflecting on the other in elegiac poetry. I assume that elegy has a cultural scheme in which the lyric subject can see the environment not only from his own point of view but… read more