A corpus-driven quantitative approach to the construal of Polishthink

• Authors: Karolina Krawczak , Iwona Kokorniak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The present paper examines the construal of the verb myśleć ‘think’ in Polish from the perspective of Cognitive Grammar and Functional Linguistics. Cognitive corpus-driven and quantitative methodology (e.g., Glynn and Fischer 2010) is applied to reveal the formal and semantic correlations obtaining between a set of unprefixed and prefixed verb forms of myśleć ‘think’, instantiating and profiling various aspects of the category in question. The quantitative configurational method (Geeraerts et al. 1994) reveals the “behavioral profiles” (Gries 2006) of the verb, based on the “usage features” (Glynn 2009) associated with it. The notion of subjective and objective construal, as developed by Langacker (1990, 2006), is further elaborated on by more functional dimensions of perspective-taking, as put forward by Nuyts (2001), Verhagen (2008) and Traugott (1995, 2010).

Keywords

EN

mental predicated; construal; Cognitive Linguistics; corpus linguistics; multivariate statistics

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Journal: Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 48
• Pages: 439-472

Dates

published

2012

received

2012-04-04

revised

2012-08-20

accepted

2012-08-28

Contributors

author

Karolina Krawczak

• Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

author

Iwona Kokorniak

• Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/psicl-2012-0021