Verspoor Marjolijn, Lee Kee Dong, Sweetser Eve (Eds.). Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999. — 473 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 150).Proceedings of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995The basic tenet of cognitive linguistics is that every linguistic expression is a construal relation. The first section of this volume focuses on issues of such construal and presentation of information, including figure-ground relations, image-schematic structures, and the role of syntactic constructions in information structure.
In sections two and three papers are presented on cross-categorial polysemy between lexical and grammatical uses of a morpheme, and between different grammatical senses, and on the relationship between earlier lexical senses and later grammatical ones.
The final section of the volume brings together studies which shed further light on transitivity and argument structure. The study of transitivity necessarily entails exploration of the relationship between syntactic constructions and the pragmatics and semantics conveyed by such constructions.
As a whole, this collection of papers gives new evidence on the complexity and motivation of the mapping between linguistic form and function and offers a wealth of new directions for research on the construction of meaning at every level of the sentence.Image Schemas and Construal Relations
Some Properties and Groupings of Image Schemas - Alan Cienki
Construal Transformations: Internal and External Viewpoints in Interpreting Containment - Robert B. Dewell
The Role of Figure, Ground, and Coercion in Aspectual Interpretation - Naoko Hayase
Verb-First Constructions in German - Holger Diessel
The Mental Manipulation of the Vertical Axis: How to go from “up” to “out”, or from “above” to “behind” - Lena Ekberg
A Prosodic/Pragmatic Explanation for Word Order Variation in ASL with Typological Implications - Ronnie B. WilburGrammatical Morphemes Versus Lexical Units
Japanes ni: The Particulars of a somewhat Contradictory Particle - Kaori Kabata and Sally Rice
Observations on Wanka Quechua Conjecture Marking and Subjectification - Rick Floyd
Implementation of the FIGURE-GROUND Distinction in Polish - Laura A. Janda
Genitives and von-Datives in German: A Case of free Variation - Petra Campe
Two-way Prepositions in German: Image and Constraints - Carlo Serra-BornetoGrammaticalization Processes
The Conventional Association of a Lexeme with a Metaphor: The Case of the Wolof Verb fekk-e - Kevin Ezra Moore
Conceptual Blending: The Afrikaans verbs doen ‘do’ and maak ‘make’ - Willem J. Botha
The Spanish Copulas SER and ESTAR - Nicole Delbecque
The English Tense-System as an Epistemic Category: The Case of Futurity - Frank Brisard
From Attribution/Purpose to Cause: Image Schema and Grammaticalization of some Cause Markers in Japanese - Yo MatsumotoDegrees of Transitivity
Reflexive Markers in Polish: Participants, Metaphors, and Constructions - Barbara Dancygier
Transitivity and the Incorporation of Ground Information in Japanese Path Verbs - Victoria Muehleisen and Mutsumi Imai
The Samoan Transitive Suffix as an Inverse Marker - Kenneth William Cook
The Transitive-Ergative Interplay and the Conception of the World: A Case Study - Maarten Lemmens
The Relationships between Verbs and Constructions - Adele E. Goldberg
German Impersonal Passives - Carlee Arnett
An Account of Implicit Complement Control in English and German - Klaus-Uwe Panther
Predicate Adjuncts and Subjectification - Marjolijn H. Verspoor