HYPONYMY OF ENGLISH COGNITIVE VERBS

Interesting Cognitive Logic of Vietnamese and English Perception Verbs

Each of the phenomena is perceived by human in certain specific ways from perception to cognition. The next step is the convert of cognitive information into language codes so that these information can be released to the object of communication, the receiver or the listener. Then, the listener receives codes and decodes them in order to understand the information from which he can perform a re...

English Nouns English Coarse English Verbs English Adjectives

Lexical properties of English verbs

The central claim of this thesis is that the combinatorial properties of words are determined by their lexical structures. I argue that the lexicalist position follows from the Word Grammar (WG) analytical framework. This framework, developed by Hudson (1984, 1990, 1994, 2003), is the one that I adopt in the linguistic descriptions in the thesis, and the further development of the framework is ...

English Main Verbs Move Never

The traditional view holds that English main verbs do not move to any of the inflectional heads AgrS, Tns or AgrO. Recently, it has been claimed that while English main verbs cannot move to the highest inflectional head (i.e. AgrS), they may move to an intermediate inflectional head such as AgrO or Tns (cf. section 2). In earlier work, I have argued that all verb movement to inflectional heads ...

conceptual metaphor and the acquisition of english metaphorical competence by persian english majors: a cognitive linguistic approach

بنا براستدلال زبانشناسان شناختی ، اندیشه آدمی تا حدّ زیادی استعاری است: ما اندیشه ای را، و یا قلمرو مفهومی معیّنی را، بر حسب اندیشه و یا قلمرو مفهومی معیّن دیگری درک ویا تجربه می کنیم. موارد این نوع اندیشیدن ، که استعارات مفهومی خوانده می شوند، در زبان های گوناگون به صورت تعبیرات استعاری واقعیّت می یابند. به گمان بعضی از پزوهشگران زبان دوم، آموزش وفراگیری این گونه تعبیرات باید بخشی لازم از برنامه ه...