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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451746603321

Titolo

Cognitive linguistics and non-Indo-European languages [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Eugene H. Casad, Gary B. Palmer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003

ISBN

1-282-19373-2

9786612193736

3-11-019715-4

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (464 p.)

Collana

Cognitive linguistics research ; ; 18

Classificazione

ER 940

Altri autori (Persone)

CasadEugene H

PalmerGary B. <1942->

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Cognitive grammar

Grammar, Comparative and general

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers from a theme session at the International Cognitive Linguistics Association Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, July 10-16, 1999.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction - Rice taboos, broad faces and complex categories -- Completion, comas and other “downers”: Observations on the semantics of the Wanca Quechua directional suffix -lpu -- Speakers, context, and Cora conceptual metaphors -- Reduplication in Nahuatl: Iconicities and paradoxes -- Conceptual autonomy and the typology of parts of speech in Upper Necaxa Totonac and other languages -- 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/inchoative alternation in Thai -- Conceptual metaphors motivating the use of 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 about complementation in non-IE languages: Case studies from Japanese and Korean -- Zibun reflexivization in Japanese: A Cognitive Grammar approach -- Subjectivity and the use of Finnish emotive verbs -- From



causatives to passives: A passage in some East and Southeast Asian languages -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

This book applies the theory of cognitive linguistics to the analysis of a variety of grammatical phenomena in non-Indo-European languages. In previous studies of languages from non-Indo-European families, cognitive linguistics has been remarkably useful in explaining non-prototypical structures as well as more common ones. The book expands that effort into a new set of families and languages.