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Toward a Cognitive Classical Linguistics : the Embodied Basis of Constructions in Greek and Latin / Egle Mocciaro, William Michael Short (editions.).

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Warsaw ; Berlin : De Gruyter Open Poland, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (430 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110616767
  • 3110616769
  • 3110616343
  • 9783110616347
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Toward a Cognitive Classical Linguistics.DDC classification:
  • 480 23
LOC classification:
  • PA367
Online resources: Summary: This volume gathers a series of papers that bring the study of grammatical and syntactic constructions in Greek and Latin under the perspective of theories of embodied meaning developed in cognitive linguistics. Building on the momentum currently enjoyed by cognitive-functional approaches to language within the field of Classics, its contributors adopt, in particular, a 'constructional' approach that treats morphosyntactic constructions as meaningful in and of themselves. Thus, they are able to address the role of human cognitive embodiment in determining the meanings of linguistic phenomena as diverse as verbal affixes, discourse particles, prepositional phrases, lexical items, and tense semantics in both Greek and Latin.
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This volume gathers a series of papers that bring the study of grammatical and syntactic constructions in Greek and Latin under the perspective of theories of embodied meaning developed in cognitive linguistics. Building on the momentum currently enjoyed by cognitive-functional approaches to language within the field of Classics, its contributors adopt, in particular, a 'constructional' approach that treats morphosyntactic constructions as meaningful in and of themselves. Thus, they are able to address the role of human cognitive embodiment in determining the meanings of linguistic phenomena as diverse as verbal affixes, discourse particles, prepositional phrases, lexical items, and tense semantics in both Greek and Latin.

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