While cognitive linguistics has become established as a comprehensive research paradigm over the last three decades, it has so far hardly contributed to investigations into processes of lexical creation as traditionally captured in research on word formation. In light of this, the volume at hand is the first one to take a step ahead towards illuminating diverse aspects of word formation from cognitive perspectives. The book combines contributions to the 2nd International Cognitive Linguistics Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association with a selection of invited...

The modernist awareness of contingency is variously prefigured in German narrative discourse around 1800. In the course of the accounts of their lives, the characters in the novels Agathon (Wieland), Siebenkaauml;s (Jean Paul), and Godwi (Brentano) are repeatedly confronted with coincidences befalling them, while the texts themselves are full of reflections indicating that the order and meaning they impose on the material could always have been different. The study examines the various modes of enactment employed in connection with narrative contingency, using the contingency concept to take...