A COGNITIVE SEMANTIC SKETCH ON PREVERB–VERB COMBINATIONS

• Authors: Tolcsvai-Nagy Gabor
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

This paper presents the semantics of preverb-verb combinations as semantic structures in a cognitive linguistics framework. The presentation sketches a semantic description of prototypical preverb-verb combinations as the default case, using the methodology of Langacker's theory of semantic structure and composite structure, and as an implementation of blending elaborated by Fauconnier. The basis of discussion is the functional cognitive principle claiming that the meanings of linguistic units and expressions, as well as their structures emerging from their meanings, are of a semantic, eventually conceptual and empirical, origin. Accordingly, the general semantic characterisation of preverb-verb combinations is followed by the discussion of some sentence semantic issues involving such combinations.

Keywords

EN

COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS; PREVERB-VERB COMBINATION; SEMANTIC STRUCTURES

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Society of Hungarian Linguistics
• Journal: Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language)
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 101
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 27-43
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Tolcsvai-Nagy Gabor

• Gabor Tolcsvai-Nagy, for postal address contact the journal editor; www.c3.hu/~magyarnyelv/

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09HUAAAA07095