TY  - BOOK
AU  - Franceschi,Daniele
TI  - Ingressive and egressive verbs in English: a cognitive-pragmatic approach to meaning 
SN  - 1443885703
AV  - PE1306 
U1  - 425.6 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - English language
KW  - Aspect
KW  - Verb
KW  - Grammar, Generative
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Semantics, discourse analysis, etc
KW  - Grammar, syntax & morphology
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Grammar & Punctuation
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Syntax
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-187) and index
N2  - This book offers a fine-grained analysis of the most common ingressive and egressive verbs in present-day English in terms of the semantic-pragmatic and cognitive factors responsible for their various structural representations. It draws upon the fundamental assumptions of Cognitive Linguistics, according to which grammar is symbolic and conceptually motivated, and focuses in particular on the ability of these predicates to be integrated into constructions as a result of metonymic and metaphoric processes, which impose a well-defined set of constraints. The book supports its analysis and findi
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