By Eugene H. Casad, Gary B. Palmer
This paintings applies the idea of cognitive linguistics to the research of various grammatical phenomena in non-Indo-European languages. In prior experiences of languages from non-Indo-European households, cognitive linguistics has been remarkably worthwhile in explaining non-prototypical buildings in addition to extra universal ones. The ebook expands that attempt right into a new set of households and languages.
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The use of down for the success of an event appears to depend on an additional conceptual metonymy based on the experience that success of an event is judged at its termination. Thus, Floyd’s findings support the growing body of work that points to the importance of metonymy in motivating semantic extension and grammaticalization (Barlaan, this volume; Barcelona 2000; Dirven and Pörings 2002; Heine 1997; Kingkarn, this volume; Lakoff 1987; Palmer, this volume, n. , 1996, 2000; Panther and Radden 1999).
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Canan’ari s´hun’uyquita tapucuy Now:then your:heart ask:yourself which lula-lpa-:li-na-yqui-ta-si. do-dwn-pl-nom-2p-acc-indef ‘Now decide [lit. as your hearts] what you are going to do once and for all [i. e. ’ (23) cushi-cu-lpube:happy-ref-dwn ‘to finally rejoice [after having waited for the conclusion of something, for something else to have occurred]’ Completion, comas and other “downers” 53 In each case the designated event follows a period of time that is given some measure of conceptual salience.