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Compounds in cognitive linguistics KU Leuven
© 2009 editorial matter and organization Rochelle Lieber and Pavol Štekauer. All rights reserved. This chapter reviews analyses of compounding from the point of view of Cognitive Linguistics, which looks at language from the perespective of the cognitive abilities of the language user. It is organized as follows. Section 12.1 makes explicit the assumptions and claims behind the overall cognitive framework and points to its potential with respect ...
The periphrastic realization of participants in nominalizations: semantic and discourse constraints KU Leuven
On the constructional semantics of gerundive nominalizations KU Leuven
This paper starts out from the observation that the semantic labels of 'fact' and 'action' (Lees 1968[1960]) that are traditionally used in the description of English gerundive nominalizations (e.g. I worry that my posing the question defines me as a depressive) cannot distinguish gerundives from so-called action -ing nouns (e.g. Saddam's targeting of Israel) and also fail to capture the more subtle semantic distinctions within the system of ...