Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning

Proceedings of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995

Editors

Marjolijn H. Verspoor | University of Groningen

Kee Dong Lee | Yonsei University

Eve Sweetser | University of California, Berkeley

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The basic tenet of cognitive linguistics is that every linguistic expression is a construal relation. The first section of this volume focuses on issues of such construal and presentation of information, including figure-ground relations, image-schematic structures, and the role of syntactic constructions in information structure.

In sections two and three papers are presented on cross-categorial polysemy between lexical and grammatical uses of a morpheme, and between different grammatical senses, and on the relationship between earlier lexical senses and later grammatical ones.

The final section of the volume brings together studies which shed further light on transitivity and argument structure. The study of transitivity necessarily entails exploration of the relationship between syntactic constructions and the pragmatics and semantics conveyed by such constructions.

As a whole, this collection of papers gives new evidence on the complexity and motivation of the mapping between linguistic form and function and offers a wealth of new directions for research on the construction of meaning at every level of the sentence.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 150] 1999. xii, 454 pp.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements | p. ix

Introduction | p. xi

Part I: Image Schemas and Construal Relations

Some Properties and Groupings of Image Schemas

Alan Cienki | p. 3

Construal Transformations: Internal and External Viewpoints in Interpreting Containment

Robert B. Dewell | p. 17

The Role of Figure, Ground, and Coercion in Aspectual Interpretation

Naoko Hayase | p. 33

Verb-First Constructions in German

Holger Diessel | p. 51

The Mental Manipulation of the Vertical Axis: How to go from “up” to “out”, or from “above” to “behind”

Lena Ekberg | p. 69

A Prosodic/Pragmatic Explanation for Word Order Variation in ASL with Typological Implications

Ronnie B. Wilbur | p. 89

Part II: Grammatical Morphemes versus Lexical Units

Japanes ni: The Particulars of a somewhat Contradictory Particle

Kaori Kabata and Sally Rice | p. 107

Observations on Wanka Quechua Conjecture Marking and Subjectification

Rick Floyd | p. 129

Implementation of the FIGURE-GROUND Distinction in Polish

Laura A. Janda | p. 149

Genitives and von-Datives in German: A Case of free Variation

Petra Campe | p. 165

Two-way Prepositions in German: Image and Constraints

Carlo Serra-Borneto | p. 187

Part III: Grammaticalization Processes

The Conventional Association of a Lexeme with a Metaphor: The Case of the Wolof Verb fekk-e

Kevin Ezra Moore | p. 207

Conceptual Blending: The Afrikaans verbs doen ‘do’ and maak ‘make’

Willem J. Botha | p. 231

The Spanish Copulas SER and ESTAR

Nicole Delbecque | p. 247

The English Tense-System as an Epistemic Category: The Case of Futurity

Frank Brisard | p. 271

From Attribution/Purpose to Cause: Image Schema and Grammaticalization of some Cause Markers in Japanese

Yo Matsumoto | p. 287

Part IV: Degrees of Transitivity

Reflexive Markers in Polish: Participants, Metaphors, and Constructions

Barbara Dancygier | p. 311

Transitivity and the Incorporation of Ground Information in Japanese Path Verbs

Victoria Muehleisen and Mutsumi Imai | p. 329

The Samoan Transitive Suffix as an Inverse Marker

Kenneth William Cook | p. 347

The Transitive-Ergative Interplay and the Conception of the World: A Case Study

Maarten Lemmens | p. 363

The Relationships between Verbs and Constructions

Adele E. Goldberg | p. 383

German Impersonal Passives

Carlee Arnett | p. 399

An Account of Implicit Complement Control in English and German

Klaus-Uwe Panther | p. 417

Predicate Adjuncts and Subjectification

Marjolijn H. Verspoor | p. 433

Index | p. 451

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