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1 online resource. |
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Human cognitive processing ; 57
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Human cognitive processing ; 57.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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How Grammar Links Concepts; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1 The present situation; 1.2 Revived insights of traditional functionalism; 1.3 The contribution of image schemas; 1.4 The role of perspectives; 1.5 A first summary of concept-linking mechanisms; 1.6 The role of interfaces; 1.7 Concept linking and language acquisition; 1.8 The structure of the book; 1.9 The status of the examples; Chapter 2. Mechanisms of concept linking; 2.1 Verb-mediated constructions (VMCs); 2.1.1 Agent-driven VMCs. |
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2.1.2 Other types of VMCs2.2 Attribution; 2.2.1 Attribution as modifying; 2.2.2 Attribution as circumstancing; 2.2.3 Attribution in complex sentences; 2.3 Perspectivizing and scope phenomena; 2.3.1 Sentence modes as grammaticalized perspectives; 2.3.2 Deixis, agreement, and TAM perspectives; 2.3.3 Negation, perspective, and the grammaticalization of scope; 2.3.4 Perspectivizing use of adverbs; 2.4 The inherent meaning of scope and attribution; 2.5 Evidence for concept linking in spoken language; 2.6 A first overview of concept-linking mechanisms. |
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2.7 Postscript on concept linking and image schemas2.7.1 Relationship of path, container, and part-whole to other image schemas; 2.7.2 The spatial background of image schemas; 2.7.3 Neurological claims for image schemas; Chapter 3. Hierarchy in concept linking; 3.1 Introductory remarks on grammatical hierarchies; 3.2 VMC and attribution hierarchies; 3.2.1 The 'flatness' of the VMC hierarchy; 3.2.2 The hierarchical flexibility of attribution; 3.3 Hierarchical aspects of perspectivizing and scope; 3.3.1 Hierarchical levels; 3.3.2 Scope differentiation for viewpoint and person-oriented adverbs. |
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3.3.3 Scope hierarchy vs. scope competition: How time and frequency adverbs, emphasizers and not-negation function3.3.4 The scope behavior of epistemic and deontic modals; 3.4 Interlocking hierarchies: An example; 3.5 Postscript on the notions of clause and complex sentence; 3.5.1 The notion of clause; 3.5.2 The notion of complex sentence; Chapter 4. Restrictions on concept linking; 4.1 Restrictions on VMCs and attribution contrasted; 4.2 Restrictions on perspectivizing; Chapter 5. Signaling concept linking: Word order, morphology, function words. |
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5.1 The role of word order in concept linking5.1.1 A preliminary classification; 5.1.2 Word order as serialization of concept representations; 5.1.3 Word order as adjacency of concept representations; 5.1.4 Word order as indication of scope extension and the position of scope signals; 5.2 The role of morphology and function words in concept linking; 5.3 Word order, morphology and function words: An overview; Chapter 6. Concept linking, topic, comment and focusing; 6.1 Introductory remarks on the influence of conceptual salience and informational prominence. |
| Summary |
The proposed framework of 'concept linking' combines insights of construction grammar with those of traditional functional descriptions to explain particularly challenging but often neglected areas of English grammar such as negation, modality, adverbials and non-finite constructions. To reach this goal the idea of a unified network of constructions is replaced by the triad of verb-mediated constructions, attribution and scope-based perspectivizing, each of them understood as a syntactically effective concept-linking mechanism in its own right, but involved in interfaces with the other mechanisms. In addition, 'concept linking' supplies a novel approach to early child language. It casts fresh light on widely accepted descriptions of early two-word utterances and verb islands in usage-based models of language acquisition and encourages a new view of children's 'mistakes'. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. |
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Cognitive grammar.
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Cognitive grammar. |
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Psycholinguistics.
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Psycholinguistics. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ungerer, Friedrich. How grammar links concepts. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017] 9789027246738 (DLC) 2017003489 |
| ISBN |
9789027265784 (pdf, ePub) |
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902726578X (pdf, ePub) |
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9789027246738 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9027246734 |
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