Cognitive Linguistics and Non-Indo-European Languages /

Cognitive Linguistics and Non-Indo-European Languages / / ed. by Eugene H. Casad, Gary B. Palmer.

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This book applies the theory of cognitive linguistics to the analysis of a variety of grammatical phenomena in non-Indo-European languages. In previous studies of languages from non-Indo-European families, cognitive linguistics has been remarkably useful in explaining non-prototypical structures as...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014
MitwirkendeR:
Barlaan, Rodolfo R.,
Beck, David,
Casad, Eugene H.,
Cook, Kenneth William,
Floyd, Rick,
Horie, Kaoru,
Inglis, Douglas,
Iwasaki, Shoichi,
Palmer, Gary B.,
Siiroinen, Mari,
Thepkanjana, Kingkarn,
Tuggy, David H.,
Uehara, Satoshi,
Ukosakul, Margaret,
Yap, Foong-Ha,
Yu, Ning,
Zlatev, Jordan,
HerausgeberIn:
Casad, Eugene H.,
Palmer, Gary B.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
©2003
Year of Publication:2008
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , 18
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Physical Description:1 online resource (452 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction - Rice taboos, broad faces and complex
  • categories
  • The Americas South America: Quechua
  • Completion, comas and other “downers”: Observations
  • on the semantics of the Wanca Quechua directional suffix -lpu
  • Central America: Uto-Aztecan
  • Speakers, context, and Cora conceptual
  • metaphors
  • Reduplication in Nahuatl: Iconicities and
  • paradoxes
  • North America: Salish
  • Conceptual autonomy and the typology of parts of
  • speech in Upper Necaxa Totonac and other languages
  • Asia and Western Pacific Rim Austronesian
  • Hawaiian
  • Hawaiian ‘o as an indicator of nominal
  • salience
  • Isnag
  • Animism exploits linguistic phenomena
  • Tagalog
  • The Tagalog prefix category PAG-: Metonymy,
  • polysemy, and voice
  • Thai
  • Conceptual structure of numeral classifiers in
  • Thai
  • A cognitive account of the causative/inchoative
  • alternation in Thai
  • Conceptual metaphors motivating the use of Thai
  • ‘face’
  • Holistic spatial semantics of Thai
  • Chinese
  • The bodily dimension of meaning in Chinese: what do
  • we do and mean with “hands”?*
  • Japanese and Korean
  • What cognitive linguistics can reveal about
  • complementation in non-IE languages: Case studies from Japanese and
  • Korean
  • Zibun reflexivization in Japanese: A Cognitive
  • Grammar approach
  • Europe: Finnish
  • Subjectivity and the use of Finnish emotive
  • verbs
  • From causatives to passives: A passage in some East
  • and Southeast Asian languages
  • Backmatter

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