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Visconti, Jacqueline – Language Sciences, 2013
Subjectification, as the diachronic facet of subjectivity, has raised in the last two decades a number of interesting questions in grammaticalization and semantic change theory. In this paper I shall reflect on the nature and construal of subjectification, focusing on the question, formulated by Traugott (2010a, p. 58), "whether it is possible to…
Descriptors: Semantics, Grammar, Definitions, Pragmatics
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Willems, Klaas – Language Sciences, 2012
This article explores the relationship between intuition, introspection and the observation of naturally occurring utterances in linguistic inquiry. Its focus is on the problems that this relationship poses in cognitive approaches to semantics and case theory within the framework of Cognitive Grammar. Given the increasing commitment of linguistics…
Descriptors: Intuition, Semantics, Cognitive Processes, Grammar
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Kabata, Kaori – Language Sciences, 2013
In this paper, the patterns of semantic extensions of allative markers are compared with those of ablative markers from a cognitive-typological perspective. Despite the symmetry the two notions appear to exhibit semantically, goal and source exhibit asymmetry and the prevalence of the former over the latter can be seen in a wide range of…
Descriptors: Language Classification, Semantics, Incidence, Grammar
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Grace, Caroline A.; Glaz, Adam – Language Sciences, 2010
This study explores some specific aspects of compatibility between cognitive models. Robert E. MacLaury's theory of vantages as arrangements of coordinates and Lakoff's concept of radial categories are mutually reinforcing to an analysis of semantic polysemy. Vantage Theory (VT) includes the notions of "zooming in" and "zooming out", allowing…
Descriptors: Semantics, Spanish, Models, Cultural Influences
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Riddle, Elizabeth M. – Language Sciences, 2010
This article discusses some apparently paradoxical behavior of the English demonstratives "this/these" and "that/those" as determiners of proper nouns and as metaphorical signals of epistemic and affective stance within the proximal-distal opposition. It is argued that the apparent paradoxes are actually cases of shifting perspectives or points of…
Descriptors: English, Nouns, Semantics, Linguistics
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Fabiszak, Malgorzata – Language Sciences, 2010
This paper is an application of Robert E. MacLaury's Vantage Theory (VT) to the analysis of real life spoken discourse. It utilizes Dennis R. Preston's (1994) modification of MacLaury's VT. It elucidates how cognitive processes of coordinate selection and combination contribute to the on-line construction of category membership in the abstract…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Self Concept, Discourse Analysis
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Winters, Margaret E. – Language Sciences, 2010
Vantage Theory (VT) and Cognitive Grammar (CG) both rely crucially on the cognitive phenomenon of categorization as well as on the semantic/pragmatic notion of participant point of view in making claims about human linguistic production and perception. In this paper these commonalities of commitment are explored, as are the differences in the ways…
Descriptors: Semantics, Old English, Pragmatics, Classification
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Stanulewicz, Danuta – Language Sciences, 2010
The Polish set of terms for blue includes, inter alia, the following adjectives: "niebieski" "blue", "blekitny" "(sky) blue", "granatowy" "navy blue", "lazurowy" "azure", "modry" "(intense) blue" and "siny" "(grey) violet-blue". The adjective "niebieski" is the basic term; however, it shares some of its functions with "blekitny", which is…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Negative Attitudes, Color, Semantics
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Glaz, Adam – Language Sciences, 2010
The applicability of Vantage Theory (VT), a model of (colour) categorization, to linguistic data largely depends on the modifications and adaptations of the model for the purpose. An attempt to do so proposed here, called Extended Vantage Theory (EVT), slightly reformulates the VT conception of vantage by capitalizing on some of the entailments of…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Language Processing, Language Patterns, English
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Anishchanka, Alena – Language Sciences, 2010
The article presents a usage-based analysis of color attribution, i.e. the construal of the relation between color property and an entity to which it is attributed in painting descriptions. The study is based on the corpus of 100 catalog entries written for American art museums. It focuses on the two most frequent morpho-syntactic patterns in the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Museums, Classification, Content Analysis
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Gonzalvez-Garcia, Francisco – Language Sciences, 2009
Drawing on naturally-occurring data extracted from the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Corpus de Referencia del Espanol Actual (CREA) in conjunction with data elicited from native speakers by means of questionnaires, this paper provides a bottom-up, usage-based analysis of instances of depictive secondary predicates involving mainly verba…
Descriptors: English, Spanish, Computational Linguistics, Semantics
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Niewiara, Aleksandra – Language Sciences, 2010
The paper investigates Polish punk and hip hop (rap) song lyrics broken down into frequency lists. In an analysis inspired by MacLaury's view of categorization, the construals of punk and hip hop worldviews are shown to vary in the distance of the observer from the world, the width of the viewing frame, as well as the granularity and density of…
Descriptors: Singing, Form Classes (Languages), Polish, Popular Culture
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Van der Gucht, Fieke; Willems, Klaas; De Cuypere, Ludovic – Language Sciences, 2007
This paper examines the concept of polysemy which serves as the basis of the "principled polysemy model" of spatial prepositions proposed by A. Tyler and V. Evans in a number of recent publications [Tyler, Andrea, Evans, Vyvyan, 2001. Reconsidering prepositional polysemy networks: The case of "over". Language 77, 724-765;…
Descriptors: Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Diachronic Linguistics, Linguistic Theory
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Hofmann, Thomas R. – Language Sciences, 1977
Attempts to prove the existence of semantic atoms from the existence of minimal contrasts (phonologic or semantic). (CHK)
Descriptors: Language Usage, Lexicology, Linguistic Theory, Phonology
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Hofmann, T. Ron – Language Sciences, 1976
A classification is proposed to identify in some detail the major varieties of meaning, in order to allow the possibility of excluding from semantics many things which go under the name of meaning. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Classification, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory, Semantics
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