Naslov
Different paths of realization – nominalization and the ‘ light’ verb constructions in English, Croatian and German

Autori
Gradečak-Erdeljić, Tanja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Cognitive Linguistics between Universality and Variation / - Dubrovnik, 2008

Skup
Cognitive Linguistics between Universality and Variation

Mjesto i datum
Dubrovnik, Hrvatska, 0.09.2008-1.10.2008

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
light verb constructions; nominalisation; metaphor; metonymy

Sažetak
In this paper we are taking a close look at the possibilities of nominalization in the context of the ‘ light’ verb constructions with deverbal nouns (take a walk, have a drink) and the various types of their realizations in English, Croatian and German. The approach is corpus and usage based, deriving its methodologies from the [PROCES] vs. [THING] dichotomy, as proposed by Langacker (1991) and further elaborated through the idea of embodiment of abstract notions such as activity in the form of the ABSTRACT CONCEPTS ARE PHYSICAL ENTITIES metaphor (Kövecses 2000). The structures are based on the cognitively universal model of nominalization which has taken different paths of realization in the morphosyntactic make up of the ‘ light’ verb constructions in their highly schematized meaning and the nominal objects bearing the semantic contents of the event schema profiled by the construction. We are contrasting the findings from the three languages in order to examine the degree of periphrasis operative within the framework of these typologically more or less diverse language systems and claim that the above mentioned metaphor is through different stages of metonymic reduction and expansion highly productive, but that the findings should be, at the same time, viewed through a slightly different pragmatic prism of functionally diverse styles.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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