Complementation: Cognitive and functional perspectives (Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556192118 ISBN 13: 9781556192111

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000

Synopsis

Complementation, i.e. predication encoded in argument slots, is well-renowned for its syntactic and semantic variability across languages. As such, it poses a tantalizing descriptive/explanatory challenge to linguists of any theoretical persuasion.
Recent developments in Cognitive and Functional-typological linguistics have enabled researchers to address various unexplored research questions on complementation phenomena. The seven papers included in this volume represent the most recent endeavors to explore cognitive-functional foundations of complementation phenomena from various theoretical perspectives (Cognitive Grammar, Mental Space Theory, Typology, Discourse-functional linguistics, Cognitive Science). The seven papers are prefaced by an introductory chapter (Kaoru Horie and Bernard Comrie) which situates the current volume within the major complementation studies of the past forty years. This work presents a new theoretical venue of complementation studies and enhances our understanding of this complex yet intriguing syntactic and semantic phenomenon.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1556192118
• ISBN 13: 9781556192111
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 247
• Editor: Horie Kaoru