Ingressive and egressive verbs in English : a cognitive-pragmatic approach to meaning / by Daniele Franceschi.
Material type: TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.Description: 1 online resource (191 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 1443885703
- 9781443885706
- English language -- Aspect
- English language -- Verb
- English language -- Grammar, Generative
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax
- English language -- Aspect
- English language -- Grammar, Generative
- English language -- Verb
- Linguistics
- Semantics, discourse analysis, etc
- Grammar, syntax & morphology
- 425.6
- PE1306
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-187) and index.
Print version record.
This book offers a fine-grained analysis of the most common ingressive and egressive verbs in present-day English in terms of the semantic-pragmatic and cognitive factors responsible for their various structural representations. It draws upon the fundamental assumptions of Cognitive Linguistics, according to which grammar is symbolic and conceptually motivated, and focuses in particular on the ability of these predicates to be integrated into constructions as a result of metonymic and metaphoric processes, which impose a well-defined set of constraints. The book supports its analysis and findi.
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