Chapter 2. Mechanisms of concept linking

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Chapter 2
Mechanisms of concept linking

Published online: 26 July 2017

Article outline

2.1Verb-mediated constructions (VMCs)
- 2.1.1Agent-driven VMCs
- 2.1.2Other types of VMCs
2.2Attribution
- 2.2.1Attribution as modifying
- 2.2.2Attribution as circumstancing
- 2.2.3Attribution in complex sentences
2.3Perspectivizing and scope phenomena
- 2.3.1Sentence modes as grammaticalized perspectives
- 2.3.2Deixis, agreement, and TAM perspectives
- 2.3.3Negation, perspective, and the grammaticalization of scope
- 2.3.4Perspectivizing use of adverbs
2.4The inherent meaning of scope and attribution
2.5Evidence for concept linking in spoken language
2.6A first overview of concept-linking mechanisms
2.7Postscript on concept linking and image schemas
- 2.7.1Relationship of path, container, and part-whole to other image schemas
- 2.7.2The spatial background of image schemas
- 2.7.3Neurological claims for image schemas
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