Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language
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Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language
504 pages | 6 x 9 | © 1996
Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language
Cognitive Science: Language
Language and Linguistics: Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics
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Table of Contents
French Modals and Speaker Control
Michael Achard
Constraints on Adjectival Past Participles
Farrell Ackermann and Adele E. Goldberg
From Resultativity to Current Relevance: Evidence from the History of English and Modern Castilian Spanish
Kathleen Carey
Beyond Beads on a String and Branches in a Tree
Wallace Chafe
Menendez Brothers Virus: Blended Spaces and Internet Humor
Seana Coulson
Conditionals, Distancing, and Alternative Spaces
Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser
Viewpoint and the Definite Article
Richard Epstein
Blending as a Central Process of Grammar
Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner
Psychological Predicates and the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Hana Filip
Discourse Goals and Attentional Processes in Sentence Production: The Dynamic Construal of Events
Linda B. Forrest
Salish Lexical Suffixes: A Case of Decategorialization
Donna B. Gerdts and Mercedes Q. Hinkson
Primitive and Compound Metaphors
Joe Grady, Sarah Taub and Pamela Morgan
What’s So Easy about Pie?: The Lexicalization of a Metaphor
Caitlin Hines
Metaphor, Metaphorical Extension, and Grammaticalization: A Study of Mandarin Chinese -qilai
Chu-Ren Huang and Shen-Ming Chang
The Way Constructions Grow
Michael Israel
Emphatic -Self in Discourse
Suzanne Kemmer and Michael Barlow
The Metaphor System for Morality
George Lakoff
On the Formal and Functional Relationship between Topics and Vocatives. Evidence from French
Knud Lambrecht
A Constraint on Progressive Generics
Ronald W. Langacker
Conversational Use and Basic Meaning of Finnish Demonstratives
Ritva Laury
Rigid Syntax and Flexible Meaning: The Case of the English Distransitive
Frederike van der Leek
Conceptual Manipulation and Semantic Distinction: The Case of Mandarin Postverbial ‘De’- Complements
Mei-chun Liu
Schematic Representations of Discourse Structure
June Luchjenbroers
How Abstract is Subjective Motion? A Comparison of Coverage Path Expressions and Access Path Expressions
Yo Matsumoto
The Exclamative Sentence Type in English
Laura A. Michaelis and Knud Lambrecht
The Dynamic Nature of Conceptual Structure Building: Evidence from Conversation
Tsuyoshi Ono and Sandra A. Thompson
Situation Perspective: On the Relations of Thematic Roles, Discourse Categories, and Grammatical Relations to Figure and Ground
Maria Polinsky
Manipulation of Discourse Spaces in American Sign Language
Christine Poulin
Roles, Values, and Possessives: Deictic Adjectives in the Noun Phrase
Ronald E. Sheffer, Jr.
How Productive are Metaphors? A Close Look at the Participation of a Few Verbs in the "States Are Locations" Metaphor (and Others)
Sarah Taub
On the Discourse Function of Rightward Movement in English
Gregory Ward and Betty Birner
Deontic and Epistemic Modals in ASL: A Discourse Analysis
Phyllis Perrin Wilcox
Author Index
Subject Index
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