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

Arguing that cases result from an interplay of of cognitive, lexical and syntactic factors, Professor Schlesinger develops a new approach to cases which permits better descriptions of cer tain syntactic phenomena than has hitherto been possible. Drawing on evidence from psycholinguistic research and English language data, he challenges the understanding of cases as categories in cognitive space, arguing that they are instead composed of more primitive cognitive notions: features and dimensions.Read More

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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, 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. This new approach to case permits better descriptions of certain syntactic phenomena than has hitherto been possible, as Schlesinger illustrates through the analysis of the feature compositions of three cases.

  • 0521027365
  • 9780521027366
  • Izchak M. Schlesinger
  • 2 November 2006
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
  • New Ed
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