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Title Cognitive linguistics and non-Indo-European languages / edited by Eugene H. Casad, Gary B. Palmer.

Publication Info. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 452 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Cognitive linguistics research ; 18
Cognitive linguistics research ; 18.
Note Papers from a theme session at the International Cognitive Linguistics Association Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, July 10-16, 1999.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary This work applies the theory of cognitive linguistics to the analysis of a variety of grammatical phenomena in non-Indo-European languages. The book expands the effort made in previous studies of languages from non-Indo -European families into a new set of families and languages.
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Contents Introduction 2 Rice taboos, broad faces andcomplex categories; Completion, comas and other "downers":Observations on the semantics of the WancaQuechua directional suffix -lpu; Speakers, context, and Cora conceptual metaphors; Reduplication in Nahuatl: Iconicities and paradoxes; Conceptual autonomy and the typology of parts ofspeech1 in Upper Necaxa Totonac and otherlanguages; Hawaiian 'o as an indicator of nominal salience; Animism exploits linguistic phenomena; The Tagalog prefix category PAG-: Metonymy, polysemy, and voice; Conceptual structure of numeral classifiers in Thai.
A cognitive account of the causative/inchoativealternation in ThaiConceptual metaphors motivating the useof Thai 'face'; Holistic spatial semantics of Thai; The bodily dimension of meaning in Chinese:what do we do and mean with "hands"?; What cognitive linguistics can reveal aboutcomplementation in non-IE languages: Case studiesfrom Japanese and Korean; Zibun reflexivization in Japanese: A CognitiveGrammar approach; Subjectivity and the use of Finnish emotive verbs; From causatives to passives:A passage in some East and Southeast Asianlanguages; Subject index; Language index.
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Subject Cognitive grammar -- Congresses.
Cognitive grammar.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Congresses.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Casad, Eugene H.
Palmer, Gary B., 1942-
International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (1999 : Stockholm, Sweden)
Other Form: Print version: Cognitive linguistics and non-Indo-European languages. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003 3110173719 9783110173710 (DLC) 2003043601 (OCoLC)51722831
ISBN 3110197154
9783110197150
3110173719 (hc. ; alkaline paper)
9783110173710 (hc. ; alkaline paper)