Cognitive linguistics research 7 – Berlin – New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1996. — 337 p. — ISBN 3-11-014894-3.Series editors: René Dirven, Ronald W. Langacker, John R. Taylor.This book is an investigation into the properties of give verbs across languages, carried out within the framework which has come to be known as cognitive linguistics.Contents.
Preface.
Abbreviations.
General remarks on GIVE verbs.
GIVE as a basic verb.
Giving.
GIVE words in language acquisition.
Core vocabularies.
The GIVE morpheme in Kalam.
GIVE in Dyirbal.
GIVE and Wierzbicka’s semantic primitives.
GIVE in Basic English.
Metaphorical extensions of GIVE.
Basic forms of GIVE.
The exceptionality of GIVE words.
Directionality.
Honorific variants.
SG vs PL forms of GIVE.
Passive.
Exceptional verb morphology.
Summary.
The meaning of GIVE.
Preliminaries.
The spatio-temporal domain.
The control domain.
The force-dynamics domain.
The domain of human interest.
The complex matrix of GIVE.
Unfilled elaboration sites.
The meaning of TAKE.
Summary.
Constructions with literal GIVE.
The AGENT-PATIENT model.
Verb marking.
Two objects.
Beyond the object.
RECIPIENT as a dative.
RECIPIENT as a goal.
RECIPIENT as a locative.
RECIPIENT as a benefactive.
RECIPIENT as a possessor.
More complex networks.
THING as an instrument.
Incorporated object.
THING and RECIPIENT both obliques.
Constructions with TAKE.
The significance of schematic networks.
Integrating the morphemes.
Summary.
Constructions with figurative GIVE.
Figurative GIVE.
Interpersonal communication.
Emergence/manifestation of entities.
Emergence.
Manifestation.
Reflexive GIVE.
Impersonal GIVE.
Passive GIVE.
Intransitive GIVE.
GIVE as become.
Causative/purposive.
GIVE as have someone do something.
GIVE as cause.
GIVE as a purposive marker.
Permission/enablement.
Give permission type.
Give someone a book to read type.
Give someone to think type.
GIVE as enable.
GIVE as a hortative.
Agentive preposition in Mandarin.
Mandarin emphatic.
Schematic interaction.
Recipient/benefactive.
GIVE as a RECIPIENT marker.
GIVE as a benefactive.
Movement.
GIVE as movement away.
GIVE as movement into.
Completedness.
Overview of the main categories of extension.
The network of GIVE meanings.
Motivating semantic extensions.
Miscellaneous extensions.
Metonymies.
People giving people.
Overview of figurative extensions of GIVE and TAKE.
Summary.
Conclusion and prospects for future research.
Conclusion.
Giving as a basic and complex act.
Literal GIVE.
Figurative GIVE.
Prospects for future research.
Studies of individual languages.
Diachronic case studies.
Basic vocabulary.
Notes.
Chapters one – five.
References.
Index of languages.
Index of names.
Index of subjects.
