Mental Spaces in Grammar
Mental Spaces in Grammar

Author: Barbara Dancygier

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-07-07

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 113944610X

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Conditional constructions have long fascinated linguists, grammarians and philosophers. In this pioneering new study, Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser offer a new descriptive framework for the study of conditionality, broadening the range of richly described conditional constructions. They explore theoretical issues such as the mental-space-building processes underlying conditional thinking and the form-meaning relationship involved in expressing conditionality. Using a broad range of attested English conditional constructions, the book examines inter-constructional relationships. Within the framework of Mental Spaces Theory, shared parameters of meaning are shown to be relevant to conditional constructions generally, as well as related temporal and causal constructions. This significant contribution to the field will be welcomed by a wide range of researchers in theoretical and cognitive linguistics.

Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar
Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar

Author: Gilles Fauconnier

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1996-12

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780226239231

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In the highly influential mental-spaces framework developed by Gilles Fauconnier in the mid-1980s, the mind creates multiple cognitive "spaces" to mediate its understanding of relations and activities in the world, and to engage in creative thought. These twelve original papers extend the mental-spaces framework and demonstrate its utility in solving deep problems in linguistics and discourse theory. Investigating the ties between mental constructs, they analyze a wide range of phenomena, including analogical counterfactuals; the metaphor system for conceptualizing the self; abstract change expressions in Japanese; mood in Spanish; deictic expressions; copular sentences in Japanese; conditional constructions; and reference in American Sign Language. The ground-breaking research presented in this volume will be of interest to linguists and cognitive scientists. The contributors are Claudia Brugman, Gilles Fauconnier, George Lakoff, Yo Matsumoto, Errapel Mejias-Bikandi, Laura A. Michaelis, Gisela Redeker, Jo Rubba, Shigeru Sakahara, Jose Sanders, Eve Sweetser, and Karen van Hoek.

Space in Tense
Space in Tense

Author: Kyung-Sook Chung

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 9027255725

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This monograph explores the tense, aspect, mood, and evidentiality of Korean, which has a rich verbal inflectional system, and proposes novel treatments within the framework of compositional semantics. One of the major contributions is the demonstration that Korean has two types of deictic tense—simple deictic and spatial deictic tense. Spatial deictic tense refers to the notion of the speaker's 'perceptual field' (or deictic range), as well as to temporality, functioning to set up a condition for a systematic evidential distinction. The research in this volume shows that the basic paradigm of evidentiality of Korean derives from the standard TMA system combined with the notion of space. This volume also shows that perfect and past tense utilize different primitives. The intended readership of this volume extends beyond Koreanists to scholars interested specifically in tense, mood, aspect, and evidentiality as well as in general theories of grammar and semantics-pragmatics.

Present Tense
Present Tense

Author: Armen Avanessian

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2015-09-24

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 162892764X

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"Describes how the present tense was invented and why the poetics of the present tense novel is essential for an understanding of contemporary literature and the evolution of the novel since modernism"--

English Grammar & Composition Very Useful for All Competitive Examinations
English Grammar & Composition Very Useful for All Competitive Examinations

Author: SC Gupta

Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited

Published: 2018-04-20

Total Pages: 976

ISBN-13: 9351768740

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Nowadays English language section is asked in almost all competitive and recruitment examinations like SSC, Banking, CDS, State Level PSCs, etc. Otherwise too, being proficient in English is necessary in this fast modernizing world. This book has been designed to act as a comprehensive guide to learning English Grammar & Composition. The present book for English Grammar & Composition has been divided into 69 chapters covering Articles, Noun, Pronoun, Adverbs, Participle, Gerund, Preposition, Conjunctions, Transformation of Sentences, Question Tag, Question Framing, Formation of Words, Spelling Rules, Phrasel Verbs, Idioms & Phrases, Spotting the Errors, Word Power, Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms, Heteronyms, Palindromes, Pangrams, Foreign Words, Group Terms, Choosing Appropriate Words, Words Used as Different Parts of Speech, Young Ones of Animals, Paragraph Writing, Letter Writing, Report Writing, Comprehension, etc. The book contains approximately 10,000 sentences, 7000 solved questions, 7000 knowledge words and 550 Solved Exercises covering the minute concepts of English Grammar & Composition. The book also contains tricks and techniques for solving various kinds of questions. This book will prove to be highly useful for Hindi Language students. As the book contains ample theoretical content as well as number of solved questions, it for sure will help aspirants succeed in learning and writing English proficiently.

Mental Spaces
Mental Spaces

Author: Gilles Fauconnier

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994-08-26

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780521449496

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Mental Spaces is the classic introduction to the study of mental spaces and conceptual projection, as revealed through the structure and use of language. It examines in detail the dynamic construction of connected domains as discourse unfolds. The discovery of mental space organization has modified our conception of language and thought: powerful and uniform accounts of superficially disparate phenomena have become available in the areas of reference, presupposition projection, counterfactual and analogical reasoning, metaphor and metonymy, and time and aspect in discourse. The present work lays the foundation for this research. It uncovers simple and general principles that lie behind the awesome complexity of everyday logic.

Semantics
Semantics

Author: Steven Davis

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2004-11-18

Total Pages: 936

ISBN-13: 0198031335

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Semantics: A Reader contains a broad selection of classic articles on semantics and the semantics/pragmatics interface. Comprehensive in the variety and breadth of theoretical frameworks and topics that it covers, it includes articles representative of the major theoretical frameworks within semantics, including: discourse representation theory, dynamic predicate logic, truth theoretic semantics, event semantics, situation semantics, and cognitive semantics. All the major topics in semantics are covered, including lexical semantics and the semantics of quantified noun phrases, adverbs, adjectives, performatives, and interrogatives. Included are classic papers in the field of semantics as well as papers written especially for the volume. The volume comes with an extensive introduction designed not only to provide an overview of the field, but also to explain the technical concepts the beginner will need to tackle before the more demanding articles. Semantics will have appeal as a textbook for upper level and graduate courses and as a reference for scholars of semantics who want the classic articles in their field in one convenient place.

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language

Author: C. Georgopoulos

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1990-12-31

Total Pages: 710

ISBN-13: 9780792307372

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The thirty-two papers in this collection are offered to Professor S.-Y. Kuroda by his friends, as a ge sture of their deep respect and enduring affection. One of the many ways in which Professor Kuroda has impressed us all is in the breadth of his interests and areas of expertise. He is one of those rare scholars whose work and interests span the whole range of his discipline. He is a figure of such intellectual stature that he has inspired, influenced, and encouraged researchers in an astonishing variety of projects. He continues to do so at an unslackened pace today, just as his own productivity remains vigorous. But mention of Yuki's inspiration and influence is inadequate without mention of his special humorousness, his mischievous wit, his charm and as a friend, has added a unique warmth. Knowing Yuki, and counting him quality to our lives. We who have contributed to this collection have done so in partial acknowledgement of, and gratitude for, this benign and masterful influence. The contributions to the collection reflect the range of Yuki's own interests, and cover a rich variety of approaches to the analysis of natural language. These include papers in philosophy, psychology, computer sciencel artificial intelligence, and linguistics, and, within linguistics, the entire breadth of the field: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and computation. Though diverse in their themes, language areas, and foci, the papers are bound by their authors' common bond to Yuki.

Cognitive English Grammar
Cognitive English Grammar

Author: Günter Radden

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2007-07-05

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9027292337

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Cognitive English Grammar is designed to be used as a textbook in courses of English and general linguistics. It introduces the reader to cognitive linguistic theory and shows that Cognitive Grammar helps us to gain a better understanding of the grammar of English. The notions of motivation and meaningfulness are central to the approach adopted in the book. In four major parts comprising 12 chapters, Cognitive English Grammar integrates recent cognitive approaches into one coherent model, allowing the analysis of the most central constructions of English. Part I presents the cognitive framework: conceptual and linguistic categories, their combination in situations, the cognitive operations applied to them, and the organisation of conceptual structures into linguistic constructions. Part II deals with the category of ‘things’ and their linguistic structuring as nouns and noun phrases. It shows how things are grounded in reality by means of reference, quantified by set and scalar quantifiers, and qualified by modifiers. Part III describes situations as temporal units of various layers: internally, as types of situations; and externally, as located relative to the time of speech and grounded in reality or potentiality. Part IV looks at situations as relational units and their structuring as sentences. Its two chapters are devoted to event schemas and space and metaphorical extensions of space.Cognitive English Grammar offers a wealth of linguistic data and explanations. The didactic quality is guaranteed by the frequent use of definitions and examples, a glossary of the terms used, overviews and chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading, and study questions. For the Key to Study Questions click here.