17.3415, Books: Semantics/Syntax: Schlesinger

[LINGUIST Network]

LINGUIST List: Vol-17-3415. Tue Nov 21 2006. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 17.3415, Books: Semantics/Syntax: Schlesinger

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>
 
Reviews: Laura Welcher, Rosetta Project / Long Now Foundation  
         <reviews at linguistlist.org> 

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org/

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, Wayne
State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: Maria Moreno-Rollins <maria at linguistlist.org>
================================================================  

Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers
are available at the end of this issue. 


===========================Directory==============================  

1)
Date: 15-Nov-2006
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: Cognitive Space and Linguistic Case: Schlesinger 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:13:23
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: Cognitive Space and Linguistic Case: Schlesinger 
 



Title: Cognitive Space and Linguistic Case 
Subtitle: Semantic and Syntactic Categories in English 
Series Title: Studies in English Language  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org
	
Author: Izchak M. Schlesinger

Paperback: ISBN: 0521027365 Pages: 253 Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Paperback: ISBN: 0521027365 Pages: 253 Price: U.S. $ 39.99


Abstract:

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. 



Preface; 
Introduction; 
1. Cognitive space; 
2. Agent and subject; 
3. The comitative; 
4. Non-comitative instruments; 
5. Predicates; 
6. The attributee; 
7. Mental verbs; 
8. Objects; 
9. Verb classes and agents; 
10. Retrospect and prospects; 
Notes; 
References; 
Indexes. 


Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=22402


MAJOR SUPPORTERS

	Blackwell Publishing          
		http://www.blackwellpublishing.com	

	Cambridge University Press          
		http://us.cambridge.org	

	Cascadilla Press          
		http://www.cascadilla.com/	

	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd          
		http://www.continuumbooks.com	

	Edinburgh University Press          
		http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/	

	Equinox Publishing Ltd.          
		http://www.equinoxpub.com/	

	European Language Resources Association - ELRA          
		http://www.elra.info.	

	Georgetown University Press          
		http://www.press.georgetown.edu	

	Hodder Arnold          
		http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk	

	John Benjamins          
		http://www.benjamins.com/	

	Lawrence Erlbaum Associates          
		http://www.erlbaum.com/	

	Lincom GmbH          
		http://www.lincom.eu	

	MIT Press          
		http://mitpress.mit.edu/	

	Mouton de Gruyter          
		http://www.mouton-publishers.com	

	Multilingual Matters          
		http://www.multilingual-matters.com/	

	Oxford University Press          
		http://www.oup.com/us	

	Palgrave Macmillan          
		http://www.palgrave.com	

	Rodopi          
		http://www.rodopi.nl/	

	Routledge (Taylor and Francis)          
		http://www.routledge.com/	

	Springer          
		http://www.springer.com	

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS	

	Anthropological Linguistics
		http://www.indiana.edu/~anthling/ 

	Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc.   Umass
		http://glsa.hypermart.net/ 

	International Pragmatics Assoc.
		http://www.ipra.be 

	Kingston Press Ltd
		http://www.kingstonpress.com/ 

	Linguistic Assoc. of Finland
		http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ 

	MIT Working Papers in Linguistics
		http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/ 

	Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
		http://www.lotpublications.nl/ 

	Pacific Linguistics
		http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ 

	Peter Lang AG
		http://www.peterlang.com 

	SIL International
		http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp 

	St. Jerome Publishing Ltd.
		http://www.stjerome.co.uk 

	Utrecht institute of Linguistics
		http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ 
	



-----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-17-3415