Eintrag

Titel

On interpreting construction schemas. From action and motion to transitivity and causality

Personen

Nicole Delbecque, Bert Cornillie

Jahr

2007

Typ

Sammelband

Verlag

Mouton de Gruyter

Ort

Berlin, New York

Reihe

Trends in linguistics

Band

198

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Englisch
Hebräisch
Rumänisch
Serbisch
Spanisch

Schlagwörter

Kausativ
Konstruktion
Transitiv
Verb

Beiträge

• Halevy: Transitive verbs with non-accusative alternation in Hebrew. Cross-language comparison with English, German and Spanish

Abstract

This volume addresses the constructional variability with transitive and causative verbs from the point of view of their respective action and motion patterns. Drawing on the theoretical advances registered in cognitive approaches to language (Cognitive Grammar, Construction Grammar and space semantics), the papers substantiate new interpretations and adduce empirical evidence from various languages to refine or adjust existing analyses of transitivity and causation. The different contributions all address the crucial question of how concrete and abstract notions of human behavior drive linguistic expressions. Cognitive linguists consider that linguistic competence functions in terms of complex conceptual units: the native speaker knows and manipulates conceptual blocks without paying further attention to their constitutive parts or their internal organization. However, as this volume illustrates, the role of the constitutive parts and their internal organization cannot simply be reduced to zero. A multidimensional approach to construction schemas is at stake. That is, the speaker applies proper embodied subroutines to build a coherent meaning, but the construction schemas are also rooted in the linguistic patterns the speaker and hearer are familiar with.

https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/bdg/35305