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Title Motivation in language : studies in honor of Günter Radden / edited by Hubert Cuyckens [and others]
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 403 pages) : illustrations, 1 map
Series Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 243
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 243. 0304-0763
Contents Section 1. Motivation in lexico-grammar -- section 2. Motivation in the lexicon -- section 3. Motivation in socio-cultural conceptualization -- section 4. Motivation in applied linguistics
Summary This volume contributes to the now one-century old question, 'Is the link between forms and meanings in language essentially arbitrary, as Saussure put it, or is it on the contrary also considerably motivated?' The greater part of the papers (Sections 1-3) analyze linguistic phenomena in which not arbitrary, but cognitively motivated links between form and meaning play a role. As such, the contributions in Section 1 examine selected aspects of motivation in the continuum between lexicon and grammar; the contributions in Section 2 study the factors underlying the range of (semantic) variants th
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Linguistics.
linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Linguistics
Semantik
Morphologie Linguistik
Metapher
Wortschatz
Fremdsprachenunterricht
Kognitive Grammatik
Kognitive Semantik
Motivierung Linguistik
Syntax
Taalwetenschap.
Genre/Form Festschriften
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Radden, Günter
Cuyckens, H
ISBN 9789027275288
9027275289
1283312093
9781283312097