Bert Cornillie

Nicole Delbecque

This volume addresses the constructional variability with transitive and causative verbs from the point of view of their respective action and motion patterns. Drawing on the theoretical advances registered in cognitive approaches to language (Cognitive Grammar, Construction Grammar and space semantics), the papers substantiate new interpretations and adduce empirical evidence from various languages to refine or adjust existing analyses of transitivity and causation. The different contributions all address the crucial question of how concrete and abstract notions of human behavior drive linguistic expressions. Cognitive linguists consider that linguistic competence functions in terms of complex conceptual units: the native speaker knows and manipulates conceptual blocks without paying further attention to their constitutive parts or their internal organization. However, as this volume illustrates, the role of the constitutive parts and their internal organization cannot simply be reduced to zero. A multidimensional approach to construction schemas is at stake. That is, the speaker applies proper embodied subroutines to build a coherent meaning, but the construction schemas are also rooted in the linguistic patterns the speaker and hearer are familiar with. The volume is primarily intended for scholars working within cognitive-semantic research at large. Given its theoretical and applied character (in the sense of giving empirical evidence for specific problems in the grammar), the volume will also be of great interest to anyone concerned with syntactic processes, construction grammar or with the cognitive structure of discourse. The descriptive and theoretical insights indeed dwell on areas that are currently dealt with in modern linguistics.

From Action and Motion to Transitivity and Causality

On Interpreting Construction Schemas

Johan van der Auwera

Dirk Geeraerts

Professor of General Linguistics Dirk Geeraerts

The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language.

Sociolinguistic, Historical, Comparative

Perspectives on Variation

Nadia Lie

Brigitte Adriaensen

En esta obra, escrita por ms de cincuenta colegas y amigos, entre ellos los lorquistas ms destacados y gran parte de los hispanistas belgas, se abordan temas gratos al homenajeado: Federico Garca Lorca y la generacin del '27, la poesa espaola y latinoamericana, la edicin crtica, la retrica&ldots. Este libro de homenaje ofrece un excelente estado de la cuestin de los estudios lorquistas, presenta un testimonio actual del hispanismo belga e ilustra el papel central desempeado por Christian De Paepe en este campo de investigacin.

estudios sobre las literaturas hispánicas en honor de Christian De Paepe

Federico García Lorca et cetera

Christian de Paepe

Estudios en honor del profesor Josse de Kock

As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB. This volume on subjectification and modalization sheds new light on two kinds of shifts: (i) the shift from originally lexical reading toward propositional or procedural ones and (ii) the shift from direct speech to various forms of indirect speech. The papers of this volume not only corroborate many of the assumptions and hypotheses on semantic and syntactic change made in the literature, but also uncover the underlying principles that motivate these processes. Five papers discuss the patterns lying behind the grammaticalization and subjectification of adverbs and verbs. Three papers dwell on different ways of reporting or distancing the speaker's own or someone else's discourse and address the issue of how the speaker can make use of tense to modalize the proposition.

Topics in Subjectification and Modalization

Nicole Delbecque

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