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In:Topics in Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 50] 1988
► pp. v–viii

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Published online: 1 January 1988
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Table of contents

Prefaceix
I. Toward a coherent and comprehensive linguistic theory
An overview of cognitive grammar3
A view of linguistic semantics49
The nature of grammatical valence91
A usage-based model127
II. Aspects of a multifaceted research program
The relation of grammar to cognition165
Where does prototypicality come from?207
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The natural category MEDIUM: An alternative to selection restrictions and similar constructs231
Spatial expressions and the plasticity of meaning271
Contrasting prepositional categories: English and Italian299
The mapping of elements of cognitive space onto grammatical relations: An example from Russian verbal prefixation327
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Conventionalization of cora locationals345
The conceptualisation of vertical space in English: The case of tall379
Length, width, and potential passing403
On bounding in Lk429
A discourse perspective on tense and aspect in standard modern Greek and English447
Semantic extensions into the domain of verbal communication507
Spatial metaphor in German causative constructions555
Náhuatl causative/applicatives in cognitive grammar587
III. A historical perspective
Grammatical categories and human conceptualization: Aristotle and the modistae621
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Cognitive grammar and the history of lexical semantics647
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References679
Subject index695
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