Pub Date : 2021-04-27DOI: 10.1163/23526416-07010001
R. A. Duah, E. Osam, N. Amfo
This paper presents a proposal on the form-function correlation between direct causation and non-periphrastic causatives on one hand, and indirect causation and periphrastic causatives on the other hand. The study argues that notions of direct and indirect causation are actually features of event types of causation and vary across different event types. We present five event types of causation found in Akan causatives and isolate their properties with regard to the causer, causee, control of resultant state/event and (in)direct physical contact between causer and causee. We show that in Akan, all types of causatives, lexical, cause-effect SVC and analytic causatives can encode any of the major event types of causation. Consequently, rather than mapping causative expressions with notions of direct or indirect causation, we analyze (in)directness of causation as a feature of event types of causation, not of causative expressions themselves. Thus, although the form-function correlation in causatives may hold in some languages we argue that (in)direct causation is not encoded separately in causative forms and constructions.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-27DOI: 10.1163/23526416-07010003
Z. Kövecses
When we are engaged in metaphorical conceptualization online, we create and comprehend a metaphorical contextual meaning through an expression with a more basic, literal meaning. How does this process happen? I cannot answer this question as a psychologist or psycholinguist would; I attempt to answer it from the perspective of a cognitive linguist, and ask: What are the specific figurative devices (metaphors and metonymies) that the process requires in an act of metaphorical conceptualization? I propose that there is not a single device on a single level of conceptualization but several such devices on several levels participating in every act of metaphor use. Furthermore, I suggest that the participating devices constitute conceptual hierarchies that are different for correlation-based and resemblance-based metaphors. I call such hierarchies of figurative devices “metaphoric conceptual pathways.” Finally, I contend that these conceptual pathways emerge in and are shaped by several different context types.
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Pub Date : 2020-08-12DOI: 10.1163/23526416-bja10008
Xinyan Kou, J. Hohenstein
In this theoretical analysis, we first identify four event components essential to the conceptualization of Realization – manner salience, agentivity, the intended result and the real-world result. We move on to establish an event conflation model which reflects their interplay in an attempt to outline the speech generation mechanisms behind different lexicalization patterns. By offering alternative interpretations for some well-established findings in the Motion domain from the Realization perspective, we also explore the possibility of applying unified analysis to different macro-event types.
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Pub Date : 2020-08-12DOI: 10.1163/23526416-bja10005
R. Hudson
Elementary mathematics is deeply rooted in ordinary language, which in some respects anticipates and supports the learning of mathematics, but which in other respects hinders this learning. This paper explores a number of areas of arithmetic and other elementary areas of mathematics, considering for each area whether it helps or hinders the young learner: counting and larger numbers, sets and brackets, algebra and variables, zero and negation, approximation, scales and relationships, and probability. The conclusion is that ordinary language anticipates the mathematics of counting, arithmetic, algebra, variables and brackets, zero and probability; but that negation, approximation and probability are particularly problematic because mathematics demands a different way of thinking, and different mental capacity, compared with ordinary language. School teachers should be aware of the mathematics already built into language so as to build on it; and they should also be able to offer special help in the conflict zones.
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Pub Date : 2019-08-10DOI: 10.1163/23526416-00502002
Wes Raykowski
The article explores the cognitive semantics thesis that lexical expressions function as points of access to vast repositories of schematic concepts arising from embodied experience. By comparing various forms of communication, I find that expressions in art, science, and technology display a pattern in which expressions prompting the sense of intensity, magnitude and force are often combined into products with expressions that prompt the sense of extent, multitude and displacement. This pattern seems to be largely absent from natural language. I argue that lexical items activate the same pattern, though in a less direct way.
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Pub Date : 2019-08-10DOI: 10.1163/23526416-00502003
C. Goddard, A. Wierzbicka
This paper explores the cognitive semantics of the typological category “possession” using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (nsm) approach. At the macro level, we argue that “possession” is not a unitary cognitive category for speakers, but instead represents an aggregation of diverse semantic schemas which center around three distinct conceptual anchor points: ownership, body-parts, and kinship relations. It is shown how each of these conceptual anchor points can be clearly identified using the nsm metalanguage of semantic primes and molecules. At the micro level, the paper undertakes a close examination of the cognitive semantics of English s-genitives in the frame [THIS SOMEONE’S] SOMETHING, e.g. Mary’s ring, Mary’s shoes, Mary’s drawing, Mary’s plate, Mary’s train. It is argued that the wide range of use of the s-genitive can be captured in a set of five semantic schemas, which constitute a network of grammatical polysemy.
本文运用自然语义元语言方法探讨了类型范畴“占有”的认知语义。在宏观层面上，我们认为“占有”对说话者来说不是一个单一的认知范畴，而是代表了围绕三个不同概念锚点的不同语义图式的集合:所有权、身体部位和亲属关系。它展示了如何使用语义启动和分子的nsm元语言清楚地识别这些概念锚点。在微观层面上，本文对英语s形动词在[THIS SOMEONE 'S] SOMETHING框架下的认知语义进行了深入研究，如:Mary 'S ring, Mary 'S shoes, Mary 'S drawing, Mary 'S plate, Mary 'S train。本文认为，s属的广泛使用可以用五种语义图式来概括，这五种语义图式构成了一个语法多义性网络。
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Pub Date : 2019-08-10DOI: 10.1163/23526416-00502001
Robert D. Rupert
A theory of cognitive systems individuation is presented and defended. The approach has some affinity with Leonard Talmy’s Overlapping Systems Model of Cognitive Organization, and the paper’s first section explores aspects of Talmy’s view that are shared by the view developed herein. According to the view on offer – the conditional probability of co-contribution account (cpc) – a cognitive system is a collection of mechanisms that contribute, in overlapping subsets, to a wide variety of forms of intelligent behavior. Central to this approach is the idea of an integrated system. A formal characterization of integration is laid out in the form of a conditional-probability based measure of the clustering of causal contributors to the production of intelligent behavior. I relate the view to the debate over extended and embodied cognition and respond to objections that have been raised in print by Andy Clark, Colin Klein, and Felipe de Brigard.
提出并论证了认知系统个性化理论。该方法与伦纳德·塔米的认知组织重叠系统模型有一定的相似性，本文的第一部分探讨了塔米观点的一些方面，这些方面与本文提出的观点是一致的。根据提供的观点——共同贡献账户的条件概率（cpc）——认知系统是一组机制的集合，这些机制在重叠的子集中对各种形式的智能行为做出贡献。这种方法的核心是综合系统的思想。集成的形式化表征是以基于条件概率的衡量智能行为产生的因果因素集群的形式提出的。我将这一观点与关于扩展和具体认知的辩论联系起来，并回应了Andy Clark、Colin Klein和Felipe de Brigard在印刷品中提出的反对意见。
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Pub Date : 2019-02-19DOI: 10.1163/23526416-00501005
Ryan Fisher, P. Duffley
This paper looks at the variation in Canadian English between to-infinitive and of + gerund-participle complements with six adjectives that have as part of their semantic makeup a notion of fear. Using data from the Strathy Corpus of Canadian English and the Canadian component of the Global Web-Based Corpus of English, it aims to explain the reasons underlying complement selection with these adjectives as well as temporal relations between the emotion expressed by the adjective and that expressed by the complement. The complementation patterns examined in this study are shown to be connected to certain of the conceptual metaphors that previous studies have observed to be utilized to conceptualize the emotion of fear.
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