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Date: 30-Nov-2006
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Grammar from the Human Perspective: Helasvuo, Campbell 

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Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 23:06:38
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Grammar from the Human Perspective: Helasvuo, Campbell 

Title: Grammar from the Human Perspective 
Subtitle: Case, space and person in Finnish 
Series Title: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 277  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CILT%20277 

Editor: Marja-Liisa Helasvuo
Editor: Lyle Campbell

Hardback: ISBN: 9027247927 Pages: 280 Price: U.S. $ 132.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027247927 Pages: 280 Price: Europe EURO 110.00

Abstract:

The papers of this volume investigate how grammar codes the subjective
viewpoint of human language users, that is, how grammar reflects human
conceptualization. Some of the articles deal with spatial relations and
locations. They discuss how basic attributes of human conceptualization are
encoded in the grammatical expression of spatial relations. Other articles
concern embodiment in language, showing how conceptualization is mediated
by one's embodied experience of the world and ourselves. Finally, some of
the articles discuss coding of person focusing on the subjectivity of
conceptualization and how it is reflected in grammar. 

The articles show that conceptualization reflects the speaker's construal
of the situation, and furthermore, that it is intersubjective because it
reflects the speaker's understanding of the relations between the speech
act participants. The papers deal with Finnish, utilizing the rich
resources of Finnish grammar to contribute to issues in contemporary
linguistics and in particular to Cognitive Grammar. 

Table of contents

Abbreviations & transcription symbols  vii-viii  
Acknowledgements  ix  
Introduction: Grammar from the human perspective 
Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and Lyle Campbell 1-10  
An introduction to Finnish spatial relations: Local cases and adpositions 
Tuomas Huumo and Krista Ojutkangas 11-20  
Part I: Space and location   
Spatial axes in language and conceptualisation: The case of bidirectional
constructions 
Krista Ojutkangas 21-39  
"I woke up from the sofa": Subjective directionality in Finnish expressions
of a spatio-cognitive transfer 
Tuomas Huumo 41-65  
Metonymy in locatives of state 
Tiina Onikki-Rantajääskö 67-100  
Part II: The human perspective   
Body part names and grammaticalization 
Toni Suutari 101-128  
On distinguishing between 'recipient' and 'beneficiary' in Finnish 
Seppo Kittilä 129-152  
Oblique mentions of human referents in Finnish conversation: The effects of
prominence in discourse and grammar 
Ritva Laury 153-171  
Part III: Person   
Person in Finnish: Paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations in interaction 
Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and Lea Laitinen 173-207  
Zero person in Finnish: A grammatical resource for construing human reference 
Lea Laitinen 209-231  
Passive ? personal or impersonal? A Finnish perspective 
Marja-Liisa Helasvuo 233-255  
References  257-275  
Index of terms  277-280 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Finnish (fin)

Written In: English  (eng)

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