: Eugene H. Casad, Gary B. Palmer
: Cognitive Linguistics and Non-Indo-European Languages
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110197150
: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 174.00
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: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
: English
: 458
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This book applies the theory of cognitive linguistics to the analysis of a variety of grammatical phenomena in non-Indo-European languages. In previous studies of languages from non-Indo-European families, cognitive linguistics has been remarkably useful in explaining non-prototypical structures as well as more common ones. The book expands that effort into a new set of families and languages. 



Eugene H. Casad is Lecturer at the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Catalina, Arizona, USA.

Gary B. Palmer is Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA.
Frontmatter1
Contents5
Introduction - Rice taboos, broad faces and complex categories7
Completion, comas and other “downers”: Observations on the semantics of the Wanca Quechua directional suffix -lpu45
Speakers, context, and Cora conceptual metaphors71
Reduplication in Nahuatl: Iconicities and paradoxes97
Conceptual autonomy and the typology of parts of speech in Upper Necaxa Totonac and other languages141
Hawaiian ‘o as an indicator of nominal salience163
Animism exploits linguistic phenomena179
The Tagalog prefix category PAG-: Metonymy, polysemy, and voice199
Conceptual structure of numeral classifiers in Thai229
A cognitive account of the causative/inchoative alternation in Thai253
Conceptual metaphors motivating the use of Thai ‘face’281
Holistic spatial semantics of Thai311
The bodily dimension of meaning in Chinese: what do we do and mean with “hands”?*343
What cognitive linguistics can reveal about complementation in non-IE languages: Case studies from Japanese and Korean369
Zibun reflexivization in Japanese: A Cognitive Grammar approach395
Subjectivity and the use of Finnish emotive verbs411
From causatives to passives: A passage in some East and Southeast Asian languages425
Backmatter453