Cognitive linguistics and non-Indo-European languages /
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.
| Автор-организации: | International Cognitive Linguistics Conference |
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| Други автори: | Casad, Eugene H., Palmer, Gary B., 1942- |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
2003.
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| Серия: |
Cognitive linguistics research ;
18. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=210931 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Cognitive linguistics and non-Indo-European languages. |
Съдържание:
- 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.