Cognitive Space and Linguistic Case: Semantic and Syntactic Categories in English
(Part of the Studies in English Language Series)
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This study sheds light on the complex relationship between cognitive and linguistic categories. Challenging the view of cases as categories in cognitive space, Professor Schlesinger proposes an understanding of the concept of case. Drawing on evidence from psycholinguistic research and English language data, he argues that case categories are in fact composed of more primitive cognitive notions: features and dimensions. These are registered in the lexical entries of individual verbs, thereby allowing certain metaphorical extensions. This approach to case permits better descriptions of certain syntactic phenomena, as Schlesinger illustrates through the analysis of the feature compositions of three cases.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521027365
ISBN13:9780521027366
Release Date:November 2006
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.84 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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