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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2009
      June 1995
      ISBN:
      9780511551321
      9780521434362
      9780521027366
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511551321
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.55kg, 256 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.395kg, 256 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social Psychology, Cognitive Linguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Psychology, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Studies in English Language
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    Subjects:
    Social Psychology, Cognitive Linguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Psychology, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Studies in English Language
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    This study sheds light on the complex relationship between cognitive and linguistic categories. Challenging the view of cases as categories in cognitive space, Professor Schlesinger proposes an understanding of the concept of case. Drawing on evidence from psycholinguistic research and English language data, he argues that case categories are in fact composed of more primitive cognitive notions: features and dimensions. These are registered in the lexical entries of individual verbs, thereby allowing certain metaphorical extensions. This approach to case permits better descriptions of certain syntactic phenomena, as Schlesinger illustrates through the analysis of the feature compositions of three cases.

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    "Schlesinger's point is well argued, well supported, and well taken. Cognitive Space and Linguistic Case advances the field toward explicating an area that has been particularly problematic." Michael Spivey-Knowlton, Contemporary Psychology

    "...sheds new light on the complex relationship between cognition and linguistic categories....This new approach to case permits better descriptions of certain syntactic phenomena than has hitherto been possible." International Journal of Psychology

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