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Cognitive Space Linguistic Case: Semantic and Syntactic Categories in English (Studies in English Language) - Softcover

Schlesinger

 
9780521027366: Cognitive Space Linguistic Case: Semantic and Syntactic Categories in English (Studies in English Language)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521027365 ISBN 13: 9780521027366
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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

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This study sheds new light on the complex relationship between cognitive and linguistic categories. Challenging the view of cases as categories in cognitive space, Professor Schlesinger proposes a new 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. The features of a noun phrase may also be determined by its syntactic function. This new approach to case permits better descriptions of certain syntactic phenomena than has hitherto been possible, as Schlesinger illustrates through his analysis of the feature compositions of three cases.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521027365
ISBN 13 
9780521027366
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
256