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Publication details [#20436]
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
The author argues for the efficiency of cognitive grammar (Laboff, Langacker) in accounting for the relationship between pragmatic and semantic uses of a grammatical category such as case. The object of study is the Czech dative construction, which provides a rich array of pragmatic uses, resulting from speaker-manipulations of the boundaries of a dative sphere in order to project relationships connecting him/herself, the hearer, and the narrated event.