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Of absent mothers, strong sisters and peculiar daughters: The constructional network of English NPN constructions 缺席的母亲、坚强的姐妹和奇特的女儿：英语NPN结构的建构网络

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-01-27 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2020-0013

Lotte Sommerer, Andreas Baumann

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Null se constructions in Brazilian and European Portuguese: Morphosyntactic deletion or emergence of new constructions? 巴西和欧洲葡萄牙语中的空se结构：形态句法缺失还是新结构的出现？

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-01-27 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2019-0037

Augusto Soares da Silva, Susana Afonso, Dafne Palú, Karlien Franco

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Causality, subjectivity and mental spaces: Insights from on-line discourse processing 因果关系、主体性与心理空间:来自在线话语处理的见解

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-12-21 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2018-0020

S. Kleijn, W. Mak, T. Sanders

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引用次数: 3

Metaphors in the flesh: Metaphorical pantomimes in sports celebrations 身体中的隐喻：体育庆典中的隐喻哑剧

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-12-10 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2019-0115

R. Gibbs

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引用次数: 1

(Meta-)Ground Viewpoint Space and structurally-framed irony: A case study of the mobile game Liyla and the Shadows of War （元）地面视角空间与结构框架反讽——以手机游戏《里拉与战争阴影》为例

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-11-25 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2020-0001

Iksoo Kwon, Eunsong Kim

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引用次数: 2

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2020-frontmatter4

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Schemas and the frequency/acceptability mismatch: Corpus distribution predicts sentence judgments 图式与频率/可接受度不匹配:语料库分布预测句子判断

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-10-28 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2020-2040

S. Flach

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A multimodal cognitive approach to aid the conceptualization of Spanish utterances with ‘se’ 多模态认知方法对西班牙语“se”话语概念化的帮助

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-10-23 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2019-0089

Renia Lopez-Ozieblo

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Exploring the interplay of language and body in South African youth: A portrait-corpus study 探讨南非青年语言和身体的相互作用:肖像语料库研究

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-08-25 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2019-0101

A. Peters, Susan Coetzee-Van Rooy

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引用次数: 5

The intertwining of differentiation and attraction as exemplified by the history of recipient transfer and benefactive alternations 分化和吸引的交织，以接受者转移和受益人交替的历史为例

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-08-04 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2019-0042

E. Traugott

{"title":"The intertwining of differentiation and attraction as exemplified by the history of recipient transfer and benefactive alternations","authors":"E. Traugott","doi":"10.1515/cog-2019-0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2019-0042","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract De Smet et al. (2018) propose that when functionally similar constructions come to overlap, analogical attraction may occur. So may differentiation, but this process involves attraction to other subnetworks and is both “accidental” and “exceptional”. I argue that differentiation plays a considerably more significant role than De Smet et al. allow. My case study is the development of the dative and benefactive alternations. The rise of the dative alternation (e.g., “gave the Saxons land” ∼ “gave land to the Saxons”) has been shown to occur in later Middle English between 1400 and 1500 (Zehentner 2018). Building on Zehentner and Traugott (2020), the rise of the benefactive alternation (e.g., “build her a house” ∼ “build a house for her”) in Early Modern English c1650 is analyzed from a historical constructionalist perspective and compared with the rise of the dative alternation. The histories of the alternations exemplify the rise of functionally similar constructions that overlap, and show that differentiation from each other plays as large a role as attraction. Both attraction and differentiation occur at several levels of abstraction: verb-specific constructions, schemas and larger systemic changes.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2020-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/cog-2019-0042","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42389146","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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