Epistemic Modality Language And Conceptualization

Author : Jan Nuyts
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9027223572

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Epistemic Modality, Language, and Conceptualization by Jan Nuyts Pdf

The relationship between language and conceptualization remains one of the major puzzles in language research. This monograph addresses this issue by means of an in depth corpus based and experimental investigation of the major types of expressions of epistemic modality in Dutch, German and English. By adopting a systematic functional orientation, the book explains a whole range of peculiarities of epistemic expression forms (synchronically and diachronically), and it offers a clear perspective on which cognitive systems are needed to get from the concept of epistemic modality to its linguistic expression. On that basis the author postulates a sophisticated, layered view of human conceptualization. This book is of interest both to scholars working on modality and related semantic dimensions, and to the interdisciplinary field of researchers concerned with the cognitive systems involved in language use.

Author : Stefaan Slembrouck,Miriam Taverniers,Mieke van Herreweghe
Publisher : Academia Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : 9789038214962

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From Will to Well by Stefaan Slembrouck,Miriam Taverniers,Mieke van Herreweghe Pdf

Author : Günther Lampert,Martina Lampert
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029637167

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The Conceptual Structure(s) of Modality by Günther Lampert,Martina Lampert Pdf

This study takes George Lakoff's dictum seriously that arguments about conclusions will be pointless unless there is agreement on the premises. Subscribing to the view that linguistic categorization is necessarily theory-driven, it reconstructs and assesses, on the basis of domain-independent parameters derived from General Systems Theory and Leonard Talmy's Overlapping Systems Model of Cognitive Organization, hegemonic western conceptualizations of modality. Arguing against such propositional models of modality, the book outlines, modifies, and extends conceptualizations from a Cognitive Linguistics point of view, grounding «modality» especially on Talmy's Imaging System of Force Dynamics. The authors conceive of modality as an experientially and perceptually motivated radial category of Image Schemata, ultimately challenging the categorial status of modality as a cognitively motivated category.

Author : Jan Nuyts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 100944722X

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Modality in Mind by Jan Nuyts Pdf

Modality - the ways in which language can express grades of reality or truth - is the subject of a vast and long-established body of research. In this book, field-leader Jan Nuyts brings together twenty years of his research to offer a comprehensive, fully integrated view on areas of contentious debate within modality, from a functional and cognitive perspective. The book provides an empirically grounded, conceptual reanalysis of modality and related categories including evidentiality, volition, intention, directivity, subjectivity and mirativity. It argues for the dissolution of the category of modality and for an alternative division of the wider field of semantic notions at stake. The analysis also reflects on how to model the language faculty, and on the issue of language and thought. It is essential reading for researchers interested in the semantics of modality and in the implications of this domain for understanding the cognitive infrastructure for language and thought.

Author : Scott N. Callaham
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Bible
ISBN : 3447061588

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Modality and the Biblical Hebrew Infinitive Absolute by Scott N. Callaham Pdf

Alongside several related ancient languages, Biblical Hebrew possesses two infinitive forms. The rarer of the two is the infinitive absolute, for which no analogous structure exists in modern translation receptor languages such as English. In studying its use, Hebrew grammarians have long noted that the infinitive absolute often appears in modal contexts. However, until the present study this phenomenon has not received further scholarly attention. Employing contemporary cross-linguistic research on modality, Callaham's study presents a new and comprehensive analysis of the function of the infi nitive absolute in Biblical Hebrew. Collected data strongly imply that the combination of an infinitive absolute and a cognate verb is a construction expressing verb focus, which includes focus on any modality present in the cognate verb. Infinitives absolute can also function as full substitutes for finite verbs. Accordingly, these independent uses are also highly modal. Through wide-ranging interaction with previous research and exhaustive examination of textual data, this study advances new findings on the interplay of modality and infinitive absolute employment in the Hebrew Bible.

Author : Bert Cornillie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110204483

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Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality in Spanish (Semi-)Auxiliaries by Bert Cornillie Pdf

This volume presents a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the Spanish evidential semi-auxiliaries parecer and resultar, the modal constructions with amenazar and prometer, and the modal auxiliaries poder, deber and tener que. These verbs have never been considered together in a global approach that transcends the classical "verbal periphrases" model. The book proposes a cognitive-functional account of evidentiality and modality in Spanish with special attention to subjectivity and grounding. The theoretical reflection relies on empirical evidence of two sorts: synchronic and diachronic corpus-analyses alternate with tests that measure the semantic and pragmatic compatibility of the evidential and epistemic constructions with specific sentences. Following the assumption that linguistic forms are determined by their meaning, the array of constructions that characterizes the different verbs justifies their grouping in three pairs of (semi-)auxiliaries: parecer vs resultar, amenazar vs prometer and poder vs deber/tener que. The distributional differences observed in the corpus are further shown to correlate with different degrees of grammaticalization. Primarily intended for scholars working in the field of Spanish functional linguistics, the monograph is also relevant for grammaticalization studies and for cognitive-semantic research at large. Given its combined theoretical and applied character, the volume is also of interest to anyone concerned with syntactic processes, lexical semantics or the wider area of discourse analysis and pragmatics.

Author : Zlatka Guentchéva
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110572261

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Epistemic Modalities and Evidentiality in Cross-Linguistic Perspective by Zlatka Guentchéva Pdf

This volume explores phenomena which come under the heading of epistemic modalities and evidentiality in more or less well-known languages (Germanic, Romance, Balto-Slavic, Hungarian, Tibetan, Lakandon and Yucatec Maya, Arwak-Chibchan Kogi and Ika). It reveals cross-linguistic variations in the structuring of these vast fields of enquiry and clearly demonstrates the relevance and interplay of multiple factors involved in the analysis of these two conceptual domains. Although the contributions present diverging descriptive traditions, they are nonetheless within the broad domain of functional-typological linguistics and give access to distinct yet comparable approaches. They all converge around a number of key issues: modal verbs; the relationship between epistemic modality and evidentiality; the relationship of modal notions with some tense and aspect notions; the notions of (inter)subjectivity, commitment and (dis)engagement; the prosodic variation of modal adverbs, the diachronic connections between negation and evidential markers, the connection with mirativity. The volume is of interest to linguists and advanced graduate students working in general and theoretical linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, cognition, and typology.

Author : Dirk Geeraerts,Herbert Cuyckens
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 1366 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199738632

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The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics by Dirk Geeraerts,Herbert Cuyckens Pdf

With 49 chapters written by experts in the field, this reference volume authoritatively covers cognitive linguistics, from basic concepts and models to practical applications.

Author : Christopher S. Butler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027296535

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Structure and Function – A Guide to Three Major Structural-Functional Theories by Christopher S. Butler Pdf

This book and its companion volume present a detailed guide to three major structural-functional theories: Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar. This first volume provides the necessary background through a discussion of the characteristics of functional theories, followed by a brief analysis of six approaches to language in the light of this discussion. These chapters lead to a characterization of a smaller set of ‘structural-functional grammars’, among which FG, RRG and SFG are central. An overview of each of these theories in relation to the simplex clause is then presented, followed by a more critical comparison. The remainder of the book deals with the structure and meaning of phrasal units, the representation of situations, and the treatment of tense, aspect, modality and polarity, across the three theories. A major feature of the book is the use of examples from corpora of English and other languages, which serve not only to exemplify theoretical and descriptive claims, but also at times to challenge them.

Author : Christopher Butler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230706

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Structure and Function: Approaches to the simplex clause by Christopher Butler Pdf

Volume one of a two volume set outlining and comparing three approaches to the study of language labelled 'structural-functionalist': functional grammar (FG); role and reference grammar (RRG); and systemic functional grammar (SFG).

Author : Adeline Patard,Frank Brisard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027223838

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Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality by Adeline Patard,Frank Brisard Pdf

This volume addresses problems of semantics regarding the analysis of tense and aspect (TA) markers in a variety of languages, including Arabic, Croatian, English, French, German, Russian, Thai, and Turkish. Its main interest goes out to epistemic uses of such markers, whereby epistemic modality is understood as indicating “a degree of compatibility between the modal world and the factual world” (Declerck). All contributions, moreover, tackle these problems from a more or less cognitive point of view, with some of them insisting on the need to provide a unifying explanation for all usage types, temporal and non-temporal, and all of them accepting the premise that the semantics of TA categories essentially refers to subjective, rather than objective, concerns. The volume also represents one of the first attempts to gather accounts of TA marking (in various languages) that are explicitly set within the framework of Cognitive Grammar. Ultimately, this volume aims to contribute to establishing an awareness that modal meaning elements are directly relevant to the analysis of the grammar of time.

Author : P. G. J. van Sterkenburg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027232489

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Unity and Diversity of Languages by P. G. J. van Sterkenburg Pdf

The Permanent International Committee of Linguists (Comité International Permanent des Linguistes, CIPL) has organized the 18th Congress of Linguists in Seoul (July 21-26, 2008), in close collaboration with the Linguistic Society of Korea. In this book one finds the invited talks which address hot topics in various subdisciplines presented by outstanding and internationally well known experts. In addition, the state-of-the-art papers provide an overview of the most important research areas of contemporary linguistics.

Author : Jan Nuyts,Eric Pederson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521774810

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Language and Conceptualization by Jan Nuyts,Eric Pederson Pdf

To what extent is conceptualisation based on linguistic representation? And to what extent is it variable across cultures, communities or even individuals? Of crucial importance in the attempt to develop a comprehensive theory of human cognition, these remain amongst the most difficult of questions in the cognitive sciences. This volume brings together ten new contributions from leading scholars working in a wide cross-section of disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, psychology and philosophy.

Author : Björn Wiemer,Juana I. Marin-Arrese
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110726114

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Evidential Marking in European Languages by Björn Wiemer,Juana I. Marin-Arrese Pdf

How are evidential functions distinguished by means other than grammatical paradigms, i.e. by function words and other lexical units? And how inventories of such means can be compared across languages (against an account also of grammatical means used to mark information source)? This book presents an attempt at supplying a comparative survey of such inventories by giving detailed “evidential profiles” for a large part of European languages: Continental Germanic, English, French, Basque, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Modern Greek, and Ibero-Romance languages, such as Catalán, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish. Each language is treated in a separate chapter, and their profiles are based on a largely unified set of concepts based on function and/or etymological provenance. The profiles are preceded by a chapter which clarifies the theoretical premises and methodological background for the format followed in the profiles. The concluding chapter presents a synthesis of findings from these profiles, including areal biases and the formulation of methodological problems that call for further research.

Author : Jan Nuyts,Johan van der Auwera
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191646331

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The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood by Jan Nuyts,Johan van der Auwera Pdf

This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood. An international team of experts in the field examines the full range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the many facets of the phenomena involved. Parts 1 and 2 of the volume present the basic linguistic facts about the systems of modality and mood in the languages of the world, covering the semantics and the expression of different subtypes of modality and mood respectively. The authors also examine the interaction of modality and mood, mutually and with other semantic categories such as aspect, time, negation, and evidentiality. In Part 3, authors discuss the features of the modality and mood systems in five typologically different language groups, while chapters in Part 4 deal with wider perspectives on modality and mood: diachrony, areality, first language acquisition, and sign language. Finally, Part 5 looks at how modality and mood are handled in different theoretical approaches: formal syntax, functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics and construction grammar, and formal semantics.