
Cognitive Linguistics and Non-Indo-European Languages : Cognitive Linguistics and Non-Indo-European Languages.
Title:
Cognitive Linguistics and Non-Indo-European Languages : Cognitive Linguistics and Non-Indo-European Languages.
Author:
Casad, Eugene H.
ISBN:
9783110197150
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (458 pages)
Series:
Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] ; v.18
Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction 2 Rice taboos, broad faces andcomplex categories -- Completion, comas and other "downers":Observations on the semantics of the WancaQuechua directional suffix -lpu -- Speakers, context, and Cora conceptual metaphors -- Reduplication in Nahuatl: Iconicities and paradoxes -- Conceptual autonomy and the typology of parts ofspeech1 in Upper Necaxa Totonac and otherlanguages -- Hawaiian 'o as an indicator of nominal salience -- Animism exploits linguistic phenomena -- The Tagalog prefix category PAG-: Metonymy,polysemy, and voice -- Conceptual structure of numeral classifiers in Thai -- A cognitive account of the causative/inchoativealternation in Thai -- Conceptual metaphors motivating the useof Thai 'face' -- Holistic spatial semantics of Thai -- The bodily dimension of meaning in Chinese:what do we do and mean with "hands"? -- What cognitive linguistics can reveal aboutcomplementation in non-IE languages: Case studiesfrom Japanese and Korean -- Zibun reflexivization in Japanese: A CognitiveGrammar approach -- Subjectivity and the use of Finnish emotive verbs -- From causatives to passives:A passage in some East and Southeast Asianlanguages -- Subject index -- Language index -- Cognitive Linguistics Research.
Abstract:
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 well as more common ones. The book expands that effort into a new set of families and languages.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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