32.1341, Books: ''Give'' Constructions across Languages: Bouveret (ed.)

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Subject: 32.1341, Books: ''Give'' Constructions across Languages: Bouveret (ed.)

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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 17:34:37
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: ''Give'' Constructions across Languages: Bouveret (ed.)

 


Title: "Give" Constructions across Languages 
Series Title: Constructional Approaches to Language 29  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/cal.29 


Editor: Myriam Bouveret

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260154 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260154 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260154 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027208422 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027208422 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027208422 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 100.70


Abstract:

This cognitive contrastive study of ten languages (Chinese, Dalabon, English,
French, Spanish, Romanian, Kurdish, Khmer, Polish, Tibetan) focuses on the
concept of giving from six main points of view, namely argument structure,
lexical semantics and event structure, role marking in the three argument
construction and in other constructions, lexicalization, grammaticalization
and constructionalization of the verb from a cognitive construction grammar
point of view, and central and extended meanings. It is proposed that a
continuum approach to grammar and lexicon is needed in order to describe the
typological and historical facts. The volume argues for a concrete and
abstract transfer ‘cluster model’ involving coverage of lexical and
grammatical extension or bleaching phenomena and that the semantic extensions
(metaphorical and otherwise) exploit various portions of this schema. The
volume is deeply anchored in the Cognitive Construction Grammar theoretical
movement, and proposes analyses of constructional phenomena to illustrate a
grammar to lexicon continuum, in synchrony and diachrony: language change,
grammaticalization chains, constructionalization analysis, and an invariant
hypothesis of giving as a basic activity in human cognition.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Semantics
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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