Full Description
This volume contains selected papers from the 5th ICLC, Amsterdam 1997. The papers present cognitive analyses of a variety of constructions (phrasal verbs, prepositional phrases, transitivity, accusative versus dative objects, possessives, gerunds, passives, causatives, conditionals), in a variety of languages (English, German, Dutch, Polish, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Thai, Fijian). Besides analyses of 'objective construal', the volume reflects the increasing interest in subjectivity (grounding and speaker involvement). It also includes, lastly, contributions on the acquisition and agrammatic loss of constructions.
Contents
1. Acknowledgements; 2. Editors' Foreword; 3. Pragmatic Conditionals (by Athanasiadou, Angeliki); 4. How Polish Structures Space: Prepositions, Direction Nouns, Case, and Metaphor (by Dancygier, Barbara); 5. Case Meaning and Sequence of Attention: Source Landmarks as Accusative and Dative Objects of the Verb (by Dewell, Robert B.); 6. Fijian Children's Possessive Categories and Constructions (by Griffiths, Patrick D.); 7. Facing up to the Meaning of 'face up to': A Cognitive Semantico-Pragmatic Analysis of an English Verb-Particle Construction (by Hampe, Beate); 8. Gerundive Nominalization: From Type Specification to Grounded Instance (by Heyvaert, Liesbet); 9. A Cognitive Approach to Errors in Case Marking in Japanese Agrammatism: The Priority of the Goal -ni over the Source -kara (by Ihara, Hiroko); 10. Verbal Aspect and Construal (by Kochanska, Agata); 11. How I got myself arrested: Underspecificity in Grammatical Blends as a Source for Constructional Ambiguity (by Mandelblit, Nili); 12. Konjunktiv II and Epistemic Modals in German: A Division of Labour (by Mortelmans, Tanja); 13. Subjectivity and Conditionality: The Marking of Speaker Involvement in Modern Greek (by Nikiforidou, Kiki); 14. English Imperatives and Passives (by Takahashi, Hidemitsu); 15. Lexical Causatives in Thai (by Thepkanjana, Kingkarn); 16. Cognitive Models in Transitive Construal in the Japanese Adversative Passive (by Tsuboi, Eijiro); 17. Caused-Motion and the 'Bottom-Up' Role of Grammar (by Leek, Frederike van der); 18. Addresses; 19. Index
