English abstract nouns as conceptual shells : from corpus to cognition / / Hans-Jörg Schmid

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790718503321
• Autore: Schmid Hans-Jörg
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 2000
• ISBN: 3-11-174943-6; 3-11-080870-6
• Edizione: [Reprint 2012]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (472 p.)
• Collana: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; ; 34; Topics in English linguistics ; ; 34
• Classificazione: HF 300
• Disciplina: 425
• Soggetti: English language - Noun phrase; English language - Noun
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [421]-441) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Foundations: Theory, terminology and methodology -- Approaching shell nouns -- The term shell noun -- Defining shell nouns and shell-content complexes in functional terms -- A brief note on the theoretical stance -- The links between shell nouns and contents -- Triggering co-interpretation -- Lexico-grammatical patterns of shell-noun uses -- From identity of reference to experiential identity -- The semantic contributions of different types of complements: a survey of the evidence from verbal complementation -- Basic functions of shell-noun typical patterns -- The systematic investigation of shell nouns -- The From-Corpus-to-Cognition Principle -- Data retrieval -- Cleaning up the data -- Systematic misses of the corpus inquiry -- A survey of the results of the corpus inquiry -- Semantic prerequisites -- Abstractness -- Extensional abstractness and classes of abstract entities -- Stylistic abstractness and grammatical metaphor -- Unspecificity and structure-inherent semantic gaps -- The use of shell nouns -- Describing shell-noun uses -- Degrees of typicality -- Explaining the meanings of shell-noun uses: features and frames -- Factual uses -- Neutral uses -- Causal uses -- Evidential uses -- Comparative uses -- Partitive uses -- Attitudinal factual uses -- Linguistic uses -- Propositional uses -- Illocutionary uses -- Assertive uses -- Rogative uses -- Directive uses -- Commissive uses -- ; Expressive uses -- Mental uses -- Conceptual uses -- Psychological-state uses -- Creditive uses -- Dubitative uses -- Volitional uses.