Linguistic Approaches to Literature (LAL) provides an international forum for researchers
who believe that the application of linguistic methods leads to a deeper and more far …

Dynamic conceptualization is a fundamental notion in cognitive linguistics. Abstract motion
is one type of dynamic conceptualization. It is said to structure descriptions of static scenes …

Cognitive Linguistics and Lexical Change Page 1 Current Issues in Linguistic Theory Natalya I.
Stolova JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY Cognitive Linguistics and Lexical Change …

This thesis deals with motion in language and non-linguistic experience, distinguishing
between actual motion (AM) and non-actual motion (NAM). AM is the experience of …

A large part of the theoretical literature on Spanish Past Participles (PPrts) has focused on
the Aktionsarten restrictions that these items exhibit in absolute clauses and verbal …

Motion-based metaphors help explain a single, often a static, concept (eg, number,
mathematical function, limit of function, continuity of function) in terms of a human motion. In …

Dynamic descriptions of static spatial situations, such as the road goes through the forest
have attracted a lot of attention across different semantic theories. Analyses in terms of fictive …

This book presents a corpus-based study of verbs used in expressions of fictive motion,
which refers to the cognitive-linguistic phenomenon of describing material objects incapable …

Expression of physical motion (eg, man runs by) shows systematic variability not only
between language types (ie, inter-typological) but also within a language type (ie, intra …

After returning from a road trip down the California coast, a friend asks which part of the drive
was your favorite. You think about it for a moment and reply,“Santa Barbara.” In formulating …