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Cognitive linguistics and non-Indo-European languages /
This work applies the theory of cognitive linguistics to the analysis of a variety of grammatical phenomena in non-Indo-European languages. The book expands the effort made in previous studies of languages from non-Indo -European families into a new set of families and languages.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
2003.
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| Colección: | Cognitive linguistics research ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction 2 Rice taboos, broad faces andcomplex categories; Completion, comas and other "downers":Observations on the semantics of the WancaQuechua directional suffix -lpu; Speakers, context, and Cora conceptual metaphors; Reduplication in Nahuatl: Iconicities and paradoxes; Conceptual autonomy and the typology of parts ofspeech1 in Upper Necaxa Totonac and otherlanguages; 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/inchoativealternation in ThaiConceptual metaphors motivating the useof 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 aboutcomplementation in non-IE languages: Case studiesfrom Japanese and Korean; Zibun reflexivization in Japanese: A CognitiveGrammar approach; Subjectivity and the use of Finnish emotive verbs; From causatives to passives:A passage in some East and Southeast Asianlanguages; Subject index; Language index.