In:Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon
Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Günter Radden
[Human Cognitive Processing 27] 2011
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 29 June 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.27.toc
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Table of contents
Preface
Introduction: Reflections on motivation revisited
Part I. Motivation in grammar
Semantic motivation of the English auxiliary
The mind as ground: A study of the English existential construction
Motivating the flexibility of oriented -ly adverbs
The cognitive motivation for the use of dangling participles in English
What motivates an inference? The emergence of CONTRAST/CONCESSIVE from TEMPORAL/SPATIAL OVERLAP
The conceptual motivation of aspect
Metaphoric motivation in grammatical structure: The caused-motion construction from the perspective of the Lexical-Constructional Model
Motivation in English must and Hungarian kell
The socio-cultural motivation of referent honorifics in Korean and Japanese
Part II. Motivation in the Lexicon
Conceptual motivation in adjectival semantics: Cognitive reference points revisited
Metonymy, metaphor and the “weekend frame of mind”: Towards motivating the micro-variation in the use of one type of metonymy
Intrinsic or extrinsic motivation? The implications of metaphor- and metonymy-based polysemy for transparency in the lexicon
Motivational networks: An empirically supported cognitive phenomenon
The “meaning-full” vocabulary of English and German: An empirical study on lexical motivatability
Name index
Subject index
