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Schlesinger

 
9780521027366: Cognitive Space Linguistic Case

Synopsis

This book develops an alternative approach to cases which permits better descriptions of certain syntactic phenomena.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

"Schlesinger's point is well argued, well supported, and well taken. Cognitive Space and Linguistic Case advances the field toward explicating an area that has been particularly problematic." Michael Spivey-Knowlton, Contemporary Psychology

"...sheds new light on the complex relationship between cognition and linguistic categories....This new approach to case permits better descriptions of certain syntactic phenomena than has hitherto been possible." International Journal of Psychology

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9780521434362: Cognitive Space and Linguistic Case: Semantic and Syntactic Categories in English

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  052143436X ISBN 13 :  9780521434362
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1995
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