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

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003
• Edizione: Reprint 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (464 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Cognitive grammar; Grammar, Comparative and general
• Classificazione: ER 940
• Altri autori: CasadEugene H PalmerGary B. <1942->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cognitive linguistics and non-Indo-European languages
• ISBN: 1-282-19373-2; 9786612193736; 3-11-019715-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782195103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cognitive linguistics research ; ; 18.