A Corpus-Based Study of Nominalizations Predicated by English Deverbal Nouns in «-Tion»: A Cognitive Grammar Approach

ISBN-13: 9783631569016 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 276 str.

Michal Szawerna

Opis

This book offers a corpus-based cognitive grammar account of the full range of nominalizations predicated by English deverbal nouns in -tion. Collectively, these nominalizations make up a category whose internal structure is presented in the form of a schematic network model. In this model, the nominalizations are characterized at varying levels of abstraction, from the topmost highly abstract all-embracing schema to its most specific low-level instantiations. In turn, the model s mid-level schemas embody generalizations over individual nominalization kinds distinguished on the basis of their profile, i.e. the facet of the nominalization s underlying process be it the trajector, the landmark, or the entire sequence of states making up this process which has been selected for reification."

Spis treści

Contents : Deverbal Nominalization - Semantic Extension - Conceptual Reification - Schematic Network Model - Corpus-based Analysis - Cognitive Grammar - Cognitive Linguistics - Conceptualist Semantics.

O autorze

The Author: Michal Szawerna graduated from the Institute of English Studies at the University of Wroclaw (Poland) in 1994. In 2004 the author was awarded a doctoral degree in linguistics at the Philological Department of the University of Wroclaw. His research interests include morphological analysis conducted in the framework of cognitive grammar.