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The language of sound: events and meaning multitasking of words 声音的语言:事件和意义的多任务处理

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-09 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2022-0006

Jenny Hartman, Carita Paradis

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Updating constructions: additive effects of prior and current experience during sentence production 更新结构:造句过程中现有经验和现有经验的加性效应

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-03 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2022-0020

Malathi Thothathiri, Natalia Levshina

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Cross-modal iconicity and indexicality in the production of lexical sensory and emotional signs in Finnish Sign Language 芬兰手语词汇、感觉和情感符号产生中的跨模态象似性和指数性

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2022-0070

Jarkko Keränen

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2023-frontmatter3-4

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2023-frontmatter2

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The complexity principle and the morphosyntactic alternation between case affixes and postpositions in Estonian 爱沙尼亚语格词缀与后置词的复杂性原理及形态句法交替

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2021-0114

Jane Klavan, Ole Schützler

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Perspective-taking and intersubjectivity in oral narratives of people with a schizophrenia diagnosis: a cognitive linguistic viewpoint analysis 精神分裂症患者口头叙述中的视角转换和主体间性：认知语言学视角分析

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2022-0045

S. L. van Schuppen, Kobie van Krieken, Simon A. Claassen, J. Sanders

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An assessment of the fourth law of Kuryłowicz: does prototypicality of meaning affect language change? 对Kuryłowicz第四定律的评估：意义的原型性会影响语言的变化吗？

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2022-0089

Isabeau De Smet

{"title":"An assessment of the fourth law of Kuryłowicz: does prototypicality of meaning affect language change?","authors":"Isabeau De Smet","doi":"10.1515/cog-2022-0089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2022-0089","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract According to the (in)famous fourth law of Kuryłowicz (K4), when a morphological doublet arises in a language, the newer form becomes associated with the prototypical, basic meaning, while the old form takes a secondary meaning. This paper takes a first attempt at a more thorough inquiry of K4 to assess whether prototypicality of meaning has an effect on morphological change. Three studies on historical Dutch are taken on: -en versus -s plurals, the apocope of schwa and the apocope of -de. The effects of prototypicality are analysed both on a token level (differences in meaning within lemmas) as well as on a type level (differences between lemmas). As proxies for prototypicality of meaning (psycho)linguistic predictors are used, such as concreteness, age of acquisition, chronology of meaning, meaning frequency and metaphor. Results show no clear effect of prototypicality on a token level, but they do suggest an effect on a type level: more concrete meanings tend to show up more often with the newer variant. Yet these results may also be ascribed to iconicity as the newer variants in these cases are the shorter ones and concrete meanings tend to be represented by shorter words than abstract ones.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45768983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Chinese synthetic verbs: a further challenge to manner/result complementarity on the basis of lexical root meaning analysis 汉语合成动词：基于词根意义分析对方式/结果互补性的进一步挑战

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-04-21 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2021-0121

Tianyu Li

{"title":"Chinese synthetic verbs: a further challenge to manner/result complementarity on the basis of lexical root meaning analysis","authors":"Tianyu Li","doi":"10.1515/cog-2021-0121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2021-0121","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper introduces Chinese synthetic verbs and analyses their contributions to debates in manner/result complementarity studies and cognitive typology studies. Chinese synthetic verbs simultaneously express manner information and path/result information, but encode them into separate root slots under Beavers and Koontz-Garboden’s (2012. Manner and result in the roots of verbal meaning. Linguistic Inquiry 43(3). 331–369) scopal modifier test, so they differ from English “manner+result verbs” and further challenge the manner/result complementarity hypothesis. Synthetic verbs followed by redundant path/result verbs constitute double-framing structures that twice encode the framing information, and the non-motion case, i.e., the “synthetic verb+result verb” structure, supplements Croft et al.’s (2010. Revising Talmy’s typological classification of complex event constructions. In Hans C. Boas (ed.), Contrastive studies in construction grammar, vol. 10, 201–235. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company) classification that only includes the motion case, so that Chinese synthetic verbs complement the discussion on double-framing structures. This paper thereby further falsifies the manner/result complementarity hypothesis and provides an overall illustration of the double-framing structure in cognitive typology. This paper also illustrates the diachronic changes of manner, which might be universal and await further investigation.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42431882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A chained metonymic approach to ίdὸ ‘eye’ constructional metonymies in Hausa 对ίd的连锁转喻方法ὸ ‘豪萨语中的眼睛结构转喻

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-04-10 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2022-0007

Mustapha Bala Tsakuwa, Xu Wen, Ibrahim Lamido

{"title":"A chained metonymic approach to ίdὸ ‘eye’ constructional metonymies in Hausa","authors":"Mustapha Bala Tsakuwa, Xu Wen, Ibrahim Lamido","doi":"10.1515/cog-2022-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2022-0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Unlike previous studies which generally seem to focus more on Hausa metaphorical expressions, this study investigates a wide range of uses of ίdὸ ‘eye’ in its constructional metonymy patterns in the language by exploring corpus data that contain over 300 eye-related expressions. We observe that some constructional metonymies maintain a set of fixed words and syntax in activating conceptual shifts and producing eye metonymies while others have semi-fixed patterns and produce the same metonymies. Lexical items like tsόkάlế, kὰn, ὰ, dὰ, and bὰsίrὰ among others are constant constituents in the constructional metonymies in which they appear. In the metonymic chaining, the basic mapping of eye metonymies occurs via the part for part relation under E-metonymies and the sub- for supercategory relation under C-metonymies. We also observe that E→E→C coding has the highest chained metonymic structure in the creation of the eye metonymies. Both attributive and predicative colligates motivate metonymic senses in the language. Finally, our analysis reveals that the eye is metonymically conceptualized and semantically extended to various target domains and produces metonymic conceptualizations that make the eye stand for vision, desire, envy, control, attention, perception, person, meeting, brain, intelligence, and so on.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43585823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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