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English abstract nouns as conceptual shells : from corpus to cognition /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
2000.
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| Colección: | Topics in English linguistics ;
34. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.