Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language
edited by Adele Goldberg
This collection of papers is the result of the first Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language conference (CSDL) held at the University of California, San Diego. The conference brought together researchers from both "Cognitive" and "Functional" approaches to linguistics. The papers in this volume span a variety of topics, but there is a common thread running through them: the claim that semantics and discourse properties are fundamental to the understanding of language. The themes presented in the volume include: an emphasis on the dynamic nature of language; the relevance of a notion of viewpoint in grammatical analysis; the role and nature of metaphor and cognitive blends; the possibility of non-derivational ways to capture relationships among constructions; and the importance of lexical semantics. This volume will appeal to a wide range of linguists, echoing the theme of the conference: bringing together two diverse approaches to linguistics.
Adele Goldberg was President and CEO of ParcPlace Systems, developers of object-oriented software development and delivery systems at the time of this publication.
- Preface
- French Modals and Speaker Control
Michael Achard
- Constraints on Adjectival Past Participles
Farrell Ackermann and Adele E. Goldberg
- From Resultativity to Current Relevance: Evidence from the History of English and Modern Castilian Spanish
Kathleen Carey
- Beyond Beads on a String and Branches in a Tree
Wallace Chafe
- Menendez Brothers Virus: Blended Spaces and Internet Humor
Seana Coulson
- Conditionals, Distancing, and Alternative Spaces
Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser
- Viewpoint and the Definite Article
Richard Epstein
- Blending as a Central Process of Grammar
Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner
- Psychological Predicates and the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Hana Filip
- Discourse Goals and Attentional Processes in Sentence Production: The Dynamic Construal of Events
Linda B. Forrest
- Salish Lexical Suffixes: A Case of Decategorialization
Donna B. Gerdts and Mercedes Q. Hinkson
- Primitive and Compound Metaphors
Joe Grady, Sarah Taub and Pamela Morgan
- What's So Easy about Pie?: The Lexicalization of a Metaphor
Caitlin Hines
- Metaphor, Metaphorical Extension, and Grammaticalization: A Study of Mandarin Chinese -qilai
Chu-Ren Huang and Shen-Ming Chang
- The Way Constructions Grow
Michael Israel
- Emphatic -Self in Discourse
Suzanne Kemmer and Michael Barlow
- The Metaphor System for Morality
George Lakoff
- On the Formal and Functional Relationship between Topics and Vocatives. Evidence from French
Knud Lambrecht
- A Constraint on Progressive Generics
Ronald W. Langacker
- Conversational Use and Basic Meaning of Finnish Demonstratives
Ritva Laury
- Rigid Syntax and Flexible Meaning: The Case of the English Distransitive
Frederike van der Leek
- Conceptual Manipulation and Semantic Distinction: The Case of Mandarin Postverbial ‘De’- Complements
Mei-chun Liu
- Schematic Representations of Discourse Structure
June Luchjenbroers
- How Abstract is Subjective Motion? A Comparison of Coverage Path Expressions and Access Path Expressions
Yo Matsumoto
- The Exclamative Sentence Type in English
Laura A. Michaelis and Knud Lambrecht
- The Dynamic Nature of Conceptual Structure Building: Evidence from Conversation
Tsuyoshi Ono and Sandra A. Thompson
- Situation Perspective: On the Relations of Thematic Roles, Discourse Categories, and Grammatical Relations to Figure and Ground
Maria Polinsky
- Manipulation of Discourse Spaces in American Sign Language
Christine Poulin
- Roles, Values, and Possessives: Deictic Adjectives in the Noun Phrase
Ronald E. Sheffer, Jr.
- How Productive are Metaphors? A Close Look at the Participation of a Few Verbs in the “States Are Locations” Metaphor (and Others)
Sarah Taub
- On the Discourse Function of Rightward Movement in English
Gregory Ward and Betty Birner
- Deontic and Epistemic Modals in ASL: A Discourse Analysis
Phyllis Perrin Wilcox
- Author Index
- Subject Index
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ISBN (Paperback): 1575860406 (9781575860404)
ISBN (Cloth): 1575867990 (9781575867991)
Subject: Linguistics; Grammar; Semantics
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