Give Constructions across Languages

Give Constructions across Languages
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9789027260154
ISBN-13 : 902726015X
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Book Synopsis Give Constructions across Languages by : Myriam Bouveret

Download or read book Give Constructions across Languages written by Myriam Bouveret and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cognitive contrastive study of ten languages (Chinese, Dalabon, English, French, Spanish, Romanian, Kurdish, Khmer, Polish, Tibetan) focuses on the concept of giving from six main points of view, namely argument structure, lexical semantics and event structure, role marking in the three argument construction and in other constructions, lexicalization, grammaticalization and constructionalization of the verb from a cognitive construction grammar point of view, and central and extended meanings. It is proposed that a continuum approach to grammar and lexicon is needed in order to describe the typological and historical facts. The volume argues for a concrete and abstract transfer ‘cluster model’ involving coverage of lexical and grammatical extension or bleaching phenomena and that the semantic extensions (metaphorical and otherwise) exploit various portions of this schema. The volume is deeply anchored in the Cognitive Construction Grammar theoretical movement, and proposes analyses of constructional phenomena to illustrate a grammar to lexicon continuum, in synchrony and diachrony: language change, grammaticalization chains, constructionalization analysis, and an invariant hypothesis of giving as a basic activity in human cognition.


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