Cognitive linguistics and non-Indo-European languages / edited by Eugene H. Casad, Gary B. Palmer.

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TextSeries: Cognitive linguistics research ; 18.Publication details: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 452 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

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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 ThaiConceptual 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.

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Summary: This work applies the theory of cognitive linguistics to the analysis of a variety of grammatical phenomena in non-Indo-European languages. The book expands the effort made in previous studies of languages from non-Indo -European families into a new set of families and languages.

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Papers from a theme session at the International Cognitive Linguistics Association Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, July 10-16, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

This work applies the theory of cognitive linguistics to the analysis of a variety of grammatical phenomena in non-Indo-European languages. The book expands the effort made in previous studies of languages from non-Indo -European families into a new set of families and languages.

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