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Publication details [#13211]

Ekberg, Lena. 1993. The cognitive basis of the meaning and function of cross-linguistic take and V. In Nuyts, Jan and Eric Pederson, eds. Perspectives on Language and Conceptualization. Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles. pp. 22–42.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
cognition | crosscultural context | metaphor | semantics1
Language as a subject
Finnish | Hungarian | Irish | Italian | Polish | Spanish | Swedish
Person as a subject
Coseriu, E.

Annotation

This paper focuses on the meaning and function of the cross-linguistic periphrastic 'take and V-construction', mainly on the basis of Swedish data, but with references to several other languages. By means of this construction, a general event is metaphorically viewed as a specific action.