Danish directional adverbs: ways of profiling a motion event
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Danish directional adverbs: ways of profiling a motion event. / Hovmark, Henrik.
The Construal of Spatial Meaning: : Windows into Conceptual Space. ed. / Carita Paradis; Jean Hudson; Ulf Magnusson. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. p. 169-193.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Danish directional adverbs:
AU - Hovmark, Henrik
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Danish directional adverbs (DDA) (for instance op ’up’, ned ’down’, and ud ’out’) are characterized by an important special feature as satellites – they have different forms: a zero-form (ud-Ø), a form with a derivative e-suffix (ud-e), and a third form with a prepositional ad-suffix (‘ wards’). In this study it is argued that the forms can be described and explained as different ways of profiling a dynamic motion event in a basic path event frame. This analysis is supported by several, strong, linguistically coded conceptual constraints in the use of DDAs in the construction of motion events in Danish found in different corpora, especially constraints regarding the semantics of the verb. However, a great deal of variation is found in specific uses of DDAs, and the question of how to integrate this variation into the description is also briefly addressed, exploring the possibility of combining cognitive linguistics with an instructional semantics.
AB - Danish directional adverbs (DDA) (for instance op ’up’, ned ’down’, and ud ’out’) are characterized by an important special feature as satellites – they have different forms: a zero-form (ud-Ø), a form with a derivative e-suffix (ud-e), and a third form with a prepositional ad-suffix (‘ wards’). In this study it is argued that the forms can be described and explained as different ways of profiling a dynamic motion event in a basic path event frame. This analysis is supported by several, strong, linguistically coded conceptual constraints in the use of DDAs in the construction of motion events in Danish found in different corpora, especially constraints regarding the semantics of the verb. However, a great deal of variation is found in specific uses of DDAs, and the question of how to integrate this variation into the description is also briefly addressed, exploring the possibility of combining cognitive linguistics with an instructional semantics.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - kognitiv lingvistik
KW - retningsadverbier
KW - semantik
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-0-19-964163-5
SP - 169
EP - 193
BT - The Construal of Spatial Meaning:
A2 - Paradis, Carita
A2 - Hudson, Jean
A2 - Magnusson, Ulf
PB - Oxford University Press
CY - Oxford
Y2 - 1 December 2007 through 1 December 2007
ER -
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