The English Change Network: Forcing Changes into SchemasWalter de Gruyter, 2013 M07 5 - 426 pages This book introduces the notion of change construction and systematically studies, within a Cognitive Grammar framework, the rich inventory of its instantiations in English, from well-known structures such as the so-called resultative construction to a variety of largely ignored types such as asymmetric resultatives, sublexical change constructions and mildly causal constructions. |
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... with either a state - reading or a position- reading . The parallelism between phrases referring to positions and 3 phrases referring to states also extends to the fact that 2 Introduction 1.1. The resultative construction.
... with either a state - reading or a position- reading . The parallelism between phrases referring to positions and 3 phrases referring to states also extends to the fact that 2 Introduction 1.1. The resultative construction.
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Forcing Changes into Schemas Cristiano Broccias. phrases referring to states also extends to the fact that a spatial prepositional phrase can be combined with an intransitive verb , as in ( 2d ) , which contains the verb of manner of ...
Forcing Changes into Schemas Cristiano Broccias. phrases referring to states also extends to the fact that a spatial prepositional phrase can be combined with an intransitive verb , as in ( 2d ) , which contains the verb of manner of ...
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... fact that cats usually climb up trees , that it is often difficult for them to climb down , and so on . There is no principled reason to exclude such pieces of knowledge about cats from my conceptualisation of what a cat is . Meaning in ...
... fact that cats usually climb up trees , that it is often difficult for them to climb down , and so on . There is no principled reason to exclude such pieces of knowledge about cats from my conceptualisation of what a cat is . Meaning in ...
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... fact that most plu- ral nouns are obtained from the singular by adding an -s does not necessarily imply that " specific plural forms following that rule [ ... ] would not be listed in an optimal grammar " ( Langacker 1987 : 29 ) . Hence ...
... fact that most plu- ral nouns are obtained from the singular by adding an -s does not necessarily imply that " specific plural forms following that rule [ ... ] would not be listed in an optimal grammar " ( Langacker 1987 : 29 ) . Hence ...
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... fact that the proc- ess enter is made up of an infinite number of states , each temporally following the other , has been indicated by using the three dots be- tween the three components in Figure 5. Finally , the identity of the ...
... fact that the proc- ess enter is made up of an infinite number of states , each temporally following the other , has been indicated by using the three dots be- tween the three components in Figure 5. Finally , the identity of the ...
Contents
32 Gestalt versus partwhole properties | 155 |
33 Summary | 159 |
4 Interim conclusion | 161 |
41 Transitivity | 162 |
42 Resultative adjectives | 165 |
The Force Change Schema and the Event Change Schema | 173 |
1 The Force Change Schema | 174 |
11 Subcategorised objects | 175 |
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35 Summary | 76 |
Asymmetric resultatives and the change complex | 79 |
1 Transitivity | 80 |
12 The Direct Object Restriction | 82 |
13 Some problematic data | 86 |
14 Summary | 91 |
21 Allative and ablative prepositions | 92 |
22 Prepositions in the change complex | 100 |
23 The problematic examples | 105 |
24 Summary | 107 |
When properties are not in the eye of the beholder | 109 |
33 Goldbergs 1995 Unique Path Constraint | 115 |
4 Conclusion | 117 |
Motion and idiosyncrasy | 119 |
1 The motion scenario | 120 |
11 The motion scenario is evoked by the construction | 121 |
12 The motion scenario is evoked by the verb | 124 |
13 Summary | 129 |
2 Tight links and information retrieval | 130 |
22 Linking events | 135 |
3 Lexical variation | 137 |
31 Wechslers 2001 approach | 140 |
Abovethenorm reading and tight links | 178 |
13 Mild causality and specification | 201 |
14 Goldbergs 1995 analysis | 211 |
2 The Event Change Schema | 218 |
21 Temporal coextensiveness | 219 |
22 Temporal sequencing | 227 |
23 The transitive Event Change Schema and subject orientation | 229 |
3 Conclusion | 238 |
The Event Force Change Schema and verb classes | 241 |
1 The Event Force Change Schema | 242 |
12 The noncausal variant | 247 |
2 The lack of object orientation | 252 |
21 On satisfaction and love | 253 |
22 to the point of | 260 |
23 Partwhole variants | 264 |
3 On indeterminacy and complexity | 271 |
4 Verb classes | 274 |
41 Middle verbs | 278 |
42 Verbs of manner of motion | 279 |
43 Verbs of accompaniment | 281 |
44 Emission verbs | 284 |
45 Verbs of transformation and creation | 289 |
5 Conclusion | 292 |
atconstructions | 297 |
1 The conative alternation | 298 |
12 Van der Leeks 1996 analysis | 303 |
2 The allative and ablative scenarios | 309 |
Necessary contact without translational motion | 314 |
Translational motion with necessary contact | 319 |
3 Pesetskys 1995 paradox | 323 |
4 Conclusion | 326 |
Conclusion | 329 |
2 Summary | 330 |
Notes | 351 |
References | 379 |
Sources of examples | 389 |
Index | 391 |
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above-the-norm adjectives affected entity affectedness generalisation analysis argued arrow at-construction ball billiard-ball model blend causal Caused Motion Construction change complex change component change constructions change phrase Chris coded Cognitive Grammar Cognitive Linguistics conceptual conceptualised constructional object construed corresponds denotes East Timor emission verbs Eurozone Event Change Schema event component Event Force Change evoked example fact Fauconnier Figure Force Change Schema frightened Goldberg hammered the metal Hence implies input instantiations integration interpretation intransitive involved John hammered kicked landmark Langacker limp Linguistics linked manipulee manner of motion Matthew Kneale meaning metaphorical metonymy motion scenario move noncausal noun part-whole path position predicated prepositional phrase Rappaport Hovav relation resultative construction resultative phrase Sally shouted semantic sentence sound emission spatial specifies struction structure subcategorised object subevents subject orientation subject referent syntactic syntax temporal dependency theme tion trajector transitive verbs unaccusative verbs unidirectional energy flow upper box variant verbal event Vialli Wechsler's