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Author Schmid, Hans-Jörg

Title English abstract nouns as conceptual shells : from corpus to cognition / Hans-Jörg Schmid
Published Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (427 pages)
Series Topics in English linguistics ; 34
Topics in English linguistics ; 34.
Contents Foundations: Theory, terminology and methodology -- Approaching shell nouns -- The term shell noun -- Defining shell nouns and shell-content complexes in functional terms -- A brief note on the theoretical stance -- The links between shell nouns and contents -- Triggering co-interpretation -- Lexico-grammatical patterns of shell-noun uses -- From identity of reference to experiential identity -- The semantic contributions of different types of complements: a survey of the evidence from verbal complementation -- Basic functions of shell-noun typical patterns -- The systematic investigation of shell nouns -- The From-Corpus-to-Cognition Principle -- Data retrieval -- Cleaning up the data -- Systematic misses of the corpus inquiry -- A survey of the results of the corpus inquiry -- Semantic prerequisites -- Abstractness -- Extensional abstractness and classes of abstract entities -- Stylistic abstractness and grammatical metaphor -- Unspecificity and structure-inherent semantic gaps -- The use of shell nouns -- Describing shell-noun uses -- Degrees of typicality -- Explaining the meanings of shell-noun uses: features and frames -- Factual uses -- Neutral uses -- Causal uses -- Evidential uses -- Comparative uses -- Partitive uses -- Attitudinal factual uses -- Linguistic uses -- Propositional uses -- Illocutionary uses -- Assertive uses -- Rogative uses -- Directive uses -- Commissive uses -- Expressive uses -- Mental uses -- Conceptual uses -- Psychological-state uses -- Creditive uses -- Dubitative uses -- Volitional uses
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-441) and indexes
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Subject English language -- Noun phrase.
English language -- Noun.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
English language -- Noun phrase
English language -- Noun
Abstraktum
Kognitive Linguistik
Engels.
Abstracte woorden.
Englisch.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783110808704
3110808706
3111749436
9783111749433