scholarly journals Verb-particle constructions in Cognitive Linguistics perspective: Compositionality behind selected English phrasal verbs

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-45
Author(s):  
Izabela Jarosz
Keyword(s):  
Composite Structures ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Semantic Relations ◽  
Phrasal Verbs ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Verb Particle Constructions

The developments in Cognitive Linguistics have made it possible to uncover multiple meanings of composite structures to the effect that more and more scholars have become interested in the issue of semantic relations in verb-particle constructions. With only a handful of those focusing on both elements of such constructions, many of them have directed their research towards the study of particles exclusively. The current paper aims to advance the study on phrasal verbs by offering a new outlook on their compositional nature. In order to achieve a desired aim, the principle of partial compositionality is adopted here. Hence, apart from focusing on both the verb and the particle, the senses that go beyond those comprising the composite parts receive considerable attention in this study. The phrasal verbs singled out for the purpose of the analysis include: get and take with selected spatial-orientational particles.

scholarly journals A principled Cognitive Linguistics account of English phrasal verbs with up and out*

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
NARGES MAHPEYKAR ◽  
ANDREA TYLER
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Phrasal Verbs ◽  
Verb Constructions ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
Phrasal Verb

abstractMany attempts have been made to discover some systematicity in the semantics of phrasal verbs. However, most research has investigated the semantics of particles exclusively; no study has examined how the multiple meanings of the verb also contribute to the meanings of phrasal verbs. The current corpus-based (COCA) study advances the research on phrasal verbs by examining the interaction of the polysemy networks of both the verb and the particle in four phrasal verb constructions: get up, take up, get out, and take out. Following the Cognitive Linguistics (CL) based methodology set out by Tyler and Evans (2003) for analyzing the semantics of particles, in conjunction with Langacker’s (1991) analysis of the semantics of verbs, a replicable polysemy analysis of the semantics of get and take was established. The polysemy networks for both the verbs and the particles laid the foundation for investigating the multiple meanings of the phrasal verbs found in the corpus. The CL-based analysis of the semantics of the phrasal verb constructions provides evidence for the compositional nature of phrasal verbs, showing that the multiple meanings can be systematically accounted for through the interaction of the polysemy networks of the component verbs and particles.

scholarly journals The Lion and the Wisdom—The Multiple Meanings of the Lion as One of the Keys for Deciphering Vittore Carpaccio’s Meditation on the Passion

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 344
Author(s):  
Atara Moscovich
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Book Of Job ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
Multi Level

The current paper will concentrate on the lion featured in Vittore Carpaccio’s Meditation on the Passion. The multiple meanings of the lion in primary sources will serve as a key towards demonstrating the concept of prophecy, one of the multi-level meanings referring to all three figures featured in the painting—Job, Christ and St. Jerome. To this, an interpretation not discussed hitherto with reference to the Meditation will be added—the lion as alluding to the concept of wisdom as referred to in the book of Job. Furthermore, the lion and the wisdom will be discussed as an allusion to the self-image of Venice during the period in which the painting was executed, and thus add another, social and civic, reading.

scholarly journals Dadžare – japonský kalambúr a jeho výzkumný potenciál

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří Matela
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
Modern Japan ◽  
Discourse Functions

Dajare – Japanese pun and its research potential The present paper introduces dajare as a Japanese form of puns, i.e. utterances with multiple meanings based on a wordplay. Dajare is chosen as a minimal text with a potential of humorous effect, thus a promising starting point for a research of humor and laughter from perspec tives of cultural anthropology and cognitive linguistics. While the ability to make puns with the use of the Chi nese script in Japan is historically well documented in the form of gisho, the concept of dajare is traced to the realms of the poetic forms of haikai no renga, zappai etc. In modern Japan, dajare is often regarded rather nega tively as “old men’s joke” (oyaji gyagu), mainly due to its separation from the tradition of poetic wit. Nevertheless, several areas of the use of dajare are presented and some principles of its most common form are discussed from the linguistic point of view. The paper ends with two main proposals for further research into Japanese puns: Research in the communicative, textual and discourse functions of dajare (humorous effect as the main goal is questioned) and in the relation of puns and linguistic creativity from the perspective of construction grammar.

Multi-Modal Word Synset Induction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Thomason ◽  
Raymond J. Mooney
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Word Sense ◽  
Word Sense Induction ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Polysemous Words ◽  
Word Senses

A word in natural language can be polysemous, having multiple meanings, as well as synonymous, meaning the same thing as other words. Word sense induction attempts to find the senses of polysemous words. Synonymy detection attempts to find when two words are interchangeable. We combine these tasks, first inducing word senses and then detecting similar senses to form word-sense synonym sets (synsets) in an unsupervised fashion. Given pairs of images and text with noun phrase labels, we perform synset induction to produce collections of underlying concepts described by one or more noun phrases. We find that considering multi-modal features from both visual and textual context yields better induced synsets than using either context alone. Human evaluations show that our unsupervised, multi-modally induced synsets are comparable in quality to annotation-assisted ImageNet synsets, achieving about 84% of ImageNet synsets' approval.

scholarly journals The Place of Universal Grammar in the Study of Language and Mind: A Response to Dabrowska (2015)

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Boxell
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Universal Grammar ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Language Faculty ◽  
Cognitive Capacities ◽  
Generative Linguistics ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Human Ability

AbstractGenerative Linguistics proposes that the human ability to produce and comprehend language is fundamentally underwritten by a uniquely linguistic innate system called Universal Grammar (UG). In her recent paper What is Universal Grammar, and has anyone seen it? Ewa Dabrowska reviews a range of evidence and argues against the idea of UG from a Cognitive Linguistics perspective. In the current paper, I take each of Dabrowska’s arguments in turn and attempt to show why they are not well founded, either because of flaws in her argumentation or because of a careful consideration of the available empirical evidence. I also attempt to demonstrate how evidence from the fields Dabrowska reviews actually supports the notion of UG. However, arguments are additionally presented in favor of integrating an understanding of domain-specific UG with an understanding of domain-general cognitive capacities in order to understand the language faculty completely.

scholarly journals Verb-preposition constructions and small clauses in English

1989 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bas Aarts
Keyword(s):  
Phrasal Verbs ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Verb Particle Constructions ◽  
Small Clauses

The analysis of verb-particle constructions, or verb-preposition constructions, as I will call them, has-given rise to much debate in the linguistic literature over a long period of time. Traditionally, a bipartite classification of these structures has been assumed consisting of a class of ‘phrasal verbs’, such as those in (1) and (2), and a class of ‘prepositional verbs’, such as those in (3):(1) I switched the light off.(2) I looked the information up.(3) Look at the prospectus: it clearly states that your admission depends on your examination results.

scholarly journals Recent developments in exact strip analysis and optimum design of aerospace structures

2007 ◽  
Vol 221 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Kennedy ◽  
M Fischer ◽  
C A Featherston
Keyword(s):  
Optimum Design ◽  
Composite Structures ◽  
Natural Vibration ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Stiffened Panels ◽  
Aircraft Wings ◽  
Response Surface Optimization ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Technical Details ◽  
Multi Level

The current paper outlines recent developments to algorithms and software for critical buckling and natural vibration analysis and optimum design of prismatic plate assemblies, based on the exact strip approach and the Wittrick—Williams algorithm. The current paper acts as a single source document discussing recent progress and planned future explorations in: initial local postbuckling of stiffened panels; discrete optimization of composite structures to satisfy manufacturing requirements; discontinuous cost functions; constraints on fundamental natural frequencies and frequency-free bands; a feasibility study of response surface optimization; and multi-level optimization of composite aircraft wings. The numerous references provide fuller technical details and illustrative examples.

scholarly journals СЕМАНТИЧНАТА ДЕРИВАЦИЯ КАТО ЕДИН ОТ НАЙ-ВАЖНИТЕ ВИДОВЕ ЕЗИКОВИ ИНОВАЦИИ (ВЪРХУ МАТЕРИАЛ ОТ СЪВРЕМЕННИ МЕДИЙНИ ТЕКСТОВЕ) / SEMANTIC DERIVATION AS A MAJOR TYPE OF LANGUAGE INNOVATION (BASED ON CONTEMPORARY MEDIA TEXTS)

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (PR) ◽  
pp. 102-111
Author(s):  
LARISA KISELЕVA KISELЕVA
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Semantic Relations ◽  
Major Type ◽  
Surrounding World ◽  
Person Description ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Micro Patterns

The study focuses on the most productive patterns of semantic derivation, namely metaphorical and metonymic transfer, exemplified by contemporary Russian media texts. The metaphorical and metonymic patterns outlined in the study are based on the principle of anthropocentrism, which is realized in two interrelated directions highlighting the cognitive nature of semantic relations: 1) person → surrounding world (external personalization); 2) surrounding world → person (description in view of the extralinguistic reality). Specific micro patterns are based on the concrete → abstract macro pattern. It can be argued that semantic derivation functions as a means of linguistic ex-pression of ideas about intangible entities, thus creating the respective images in the mind of the addressee. The results of the study are of relevance to lexical semantics, cognitive linguistics, media linguistics, etc. Keywords: semantic derivation, metaphor, metonymy, Russian, media texts, anthropocentrism

Making sense of phrasal verbs

AILA Review ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 50-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Alejo-González
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Phrasal Verbs ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Central Interest ◽  
Native Speakers Of English

Phrasal verbs (PVs) have recently been the object of interest by linguists given their status as phraseological units whose meaning is non-compositional and opaque. They constitute a perfect case for theories of language processing and language acquisition to be tested. Cognitive linguists have participated in this debate and shown a certain interest for PVs, although their research on this topic stems in most of the cases from their central interest on prepositions and the language of spatiality. In this paper, I aim to make a comprehensive and critical summary of the cognitive linguistics (CL) literature on PVs with particular attention to its connection with usage-based approaches, especially in Second Language Acquisition (SLA), and to the concept of (meaning) motivation, which has proven to be useful in teaching. I will also present a CL analysis of the out-PVs (i.e., those containing the particle out) used by 3 groups of non-native speakers of English whose L1 respectively belongs to a Germanic satellite-framed (S-) language (Swedish and Dutch), a non-Germanic S-language (Russian and Bulgarian) and a verb-framed (V-) language (Spanish and Italian). The results obtained from this analysis show: (1) that both Germanic and Non-Germanic S-language learners use a greater number of out-PVs than V-language learners, not only when these verbs have a motional meaning but also when they express other meanings; and (2) that S-language learners also use a greater elaboration of path (Slobin 1996) when non-motional out-PV meanings are involved. These findings suggest that ‘the thinking for speaking hypothesis’ (Slobin 1996, 1997; Cadierno 2004), which has been shown to work for the domain of manner and path of motion, may in part be extended to the acquisition of PVs by L2 learners.

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