Topics in Cognitive Linguistics

A discourse perspective on tense and aspect in standard modern Greek and English (by Paprotte, Wolf) and Semantic extensions into the domain of verbal communication (by Rudzka-Ostyn, Brygida) .

Abstract

This volume presents new developments in cognitive grammar and explores its descriptive and explanatory potential with respect to a wide range of language phenomena. These include the formation and use of locationals, causative constructions, adjectival and nominal expressions of oriented space, morphological layering, tense and aspect, and extended uses of verbal predicates. There is also a section on the affinities between cognitive grammar an early linguistic theories, both ancient and modern.