English abstract nouns as conceptual shells : : from corpus to cognition / / Hans-Jorg Schmid.

• Author: Schmid, Hans-Jorg.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, New York : : Mouton de Gruyter,, 2000.
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: Topics in English linguistics ; 34
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (427 pages)

Table of Contents

• Foundations: Theory, terminology and methodology
• Approaching shell nouns
• The term shell noun
• Defining shell nouns and shell-content complexes in functional terms
• A brief note on the theoretical stance
• The links between shell nouns and contents
• Triggering co-interpretation
• Lexico-grammatical patterns of shell-noun uses
• From identity of reference to experiential identity
• The semantic contributions of different types of complements: a survey of the evidence from verbal complementation
• Basic functions of shell-noun typical patterns
• The systematic investigation of shell nouns
• The From-Corpus-to-Cognition Principle
• Data retrieval
• Cleaning up the data
• Systematic misses of the corpus inquiry
• A survey of the results of the corpus inquiry
• Semantic prerequisites
• Abstractness
• Extensional abstractness and classes of abstract entities
• Stylistic abstractness and grammatical metaphor
• Unspecificity and structure-inherent semantic gaps
• The use of shell nouns
• Describing shell-noun uses
• Degrees of typicality
• Explaining the meanings of shell-noun uses: features and frames
• Factual uses
• Neutral uses
• Causal uses
• Evidential uses
• Comparative uses
• Partitive uses
• Attitudinal factual uses
• Linguistic uses
• Propositional uses
• Illocutionary uses
• Assertive uses
• Rogative uses
• Directive uses
• Commissive uses
• Expressive uses
• Mental uses
• Conceptual uses
• Psychological-state uses
• Creditive uses
• Dubitative uses
• Volitional uses.