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Cognitive Linguistics and Non-Indo-European Languages

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This work applies the theory of cognitive linguistics to the analysis of a variety of grammatical phenomena in non-Indo-European languages. In previous studies of languages from non-Indo-European families, cognitive linguistics has been remarkably useful in explaining non-prototypical structures as well as more common ones. The book expands that effort into a new set of families and languages.

Author(s): Eugene H. Casad, Gary B. Palmer, International Cognitive Linguistics Conference
Series: Cognitive Linguistic Research
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Year: 2003

Language: English
Pages: 452

Contents......Page 5
Introduction 2 Rice taboos, broad faces andcomplex categories......Page 7
Completion, comas and other “downers”:Observations on the semantics of the WancaQuechua directional suffix -lpu......Page 45
Speakers, context, and Cora conceptual metaphors......Page 71
Reduplication in Nahuatl: Iconicities and paradoxes......Page 97
Conceptual autonomy and the typology of parts ofspeech1 in Upper Necaxa Totonac and otherlanguages......Page 141
Hawaiian ‘o as an indicator of nominal salience......Page 163
Animism exploits linguistic phenomena......Page 179
The Tagalog prefix category PAG-: Metonymy,polysemy, and voice......Page 199
Conceptual structure of numeral classifiers in Thai......Page 229
A cognitive account of the causative/inchoativealternation in Thai......Page 253
Conceptual metaphors motivating the useof Thai ‘face’......Page 281
Holistic spatial semantics of Thai......Page 311
The bodily dimension of meaning in Chinese:what do we do and mean with “hands”?......Page 343
What cognitive linguistics can reveal aboutcomplementation in non-IE languages: Case studiesfrom Japanese and Korean......Page 369
Zibun reflexivization in Japanese: A CognitiveGrammar approach......Page 395
Subjectivity and the use of Finnish emotive verbs......Page 411
From causatives to passives:A passage in some East and Southeast Asianlanguages......Page 425
Subject index......Page 453
Language index......Page 459
Cognitive Linguistics Research......Page 461