Cognitive Space and Linguistic Case
Semantic and Syntactic Categories in English
Series: Studies in English Language;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 8 June 1995
- ISBN 9780521434362
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 235x159x24 mm
- Weight 550 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 31 tables 0
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Short description:
This book develops an alternative approach to cases which permits better descriptions of certain syntactic phenomena.
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This study sheds light on the complex relationship between cognitive and linguistic categories. Challenging the view of cases as categories in cognitive space, Professor Schlesinger proposes an understanding of the concept of case. Drawing on evidence from psycholinguistic research and English language data, he argues that case categories are in fact composed of more primitive cognitive notions: features and dimensions. These are registered in the lexical entries of individual verbs, thereby allowing certain metaphorical extensions. This approach to case permits better descriptions of certain syntactic phenomena, as Schlesinger illustrates through the analysis of the feature compositions of three cases.
"Schlesinger's point is well argued, well supported, and well taken. Cognitive Space and Linguistic Case advances the field toward explicating an area that has been particularly problematic." Michael Spivey-Knowlton, Contemporary Psychology
Table of Contents:
Preface; Introduction; 1. Cognitive space; 2. Agent and subject; 3. The comitative; 4. Non-comitative instruments; 5. Predicates; 6. The attributee; 7. Mental verbs; 8. Objects; 9. Verb classes and agents; 10. Retrospect and prospects; Notes; References; Indexes.
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