Volume 34, Issue 1-2, 2023

Cognitive Linguistics（SSCI二区，2022 IF：1.7，排名：69/194）2023年第1-2期共发文10篇，其中，2023年第1期共发表论文5篇。研究论文涉及具身认知、结构语法、语料库研究、语块等。第2期共发表论文5篇。研究论文涉及链式词义、口头叙述、认知类型学、汉语合成词、贝叶斯回归、复杂性原则等。欢迎转发扩散！

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目录

ISSUE 1

• The associative system of early-learned Hebrew verbs and body parts: a comparative study with American English, by Josita Maouene, Nitya Sethuraman, Sigal Uziel-Karl, Shohei Hidaka, Pages 1-34.

• Speed and space: semantic asymmetries in motion descriptions in Estonian，by Piia Taremaa, Anetta Kopecka, Pages 35-66.

• A network of allostructions: quantified subject constructions in Russian， by Tore Nesset, Laura A. Janda， Pages 67-97.

• What makes a complement false? Looking at the effects of verbal semantics and perspective in Mandarin children’s interpretation of complement-clause constructions and their false-belief understanding, by Silke Brandt, Honglan Li, Angel Chan, Pages 99-132.

• ABB, a salient prototype of collocate–ideophone constructions in Mandarin Chinese, by Thomas Van Hoey, Pages 133-163.

  
  

ISSUE 2

• A chained metonymic approach to ίdὸ ‘eye’ constructional metonymies in Hausa, by Mustapha Bala Tsakuwa, Xu Wen, Ibrahim Lamido, Pages 165-196.

• Perspective-taking and intersubjectivity in oral narratives of people with a schizophrenia diagnosis: a cognitive linguistic viewpoint analysis, by S. Linde van Schuppen, Kobie van Krieken, Simon A. Claassen, José Sanders, Pages 197-229.

• Chinese synthetic verbs: a further challenge to manner/result complementarity on the basis of lexical root meaning analysis, by Tianyu Li, Pages 231-260.

• An assessment of the fourth law of Kuryłowicz: does prototypicality of meaning affect language change? by Isabeau De Smet, Pages 261-296.

• The complexity principle and the morphosyntactic alternation between case affixes and postpositions in Estonian, by Jane Klavan, Ole Schützler, Pages range 297-331.
  

摘要

The associative system of early-learned Hebrew verbs and body parts: a comparative study with American English

Josita Maouene, Psychology Department, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, USA

Nitya Sethuraman, Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI, USA

Sigal Uziel-Karl, Early Childhood Program, Achva Academic College, Shikmim, Israel

Shohei Hidaka, School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Ishikawa, Japan

Abstract This paper compares the associative system of early-learned verbs and body parts in Hebrew with previously published data on American English (Maouene, Josita, Shohei Hidaka & Linda B. Smith. 2008. Body parts and early-learned verbs. Cognitive Science 32(7). 1200–1216). Following the methodology of the former study, 51 Hebrew-speaking college students gave the first body part that came to mind for each of 103 early-learned Hebrew verbs, 81 of which were translational equivalents. Rate of convergence and divergence and underlying patterns were used to make inferences about the constraints at work. Overall convergence (92.3% of the Hebrew data and 93.7% of the English data) reveal similar entropy levels, comparable semantic field shapes of verbs organized by body parts and similar general cluster patterns of verbs by body parts. Most divergence lies in the infrequent responses (offered fewer than 1% of the time) which arise around body parts that are internal, very detailed, very general categorically, used in figurative language, uniquely provided and tend to be subject to cultural taboos. This is a new contribution, as previous work has not quantified the relative proportion of convergent to divergent associations. We discuss how these findings support neural and developmental continuity and stability in the verbal system with respect to the categorization of verbs by body parts cross-culturally.

Key words American English；associations；body maps；body parts；early-learned verbs；embodiment；Hebrew

Speed and space: semantic asymmetries in motion descriptions in Estonian

Piia Taremaa, Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Anetta Kopecka, Département des Sciences du Langage , Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, CNRS & Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France

Abstract In this study, we investigate the expression of speed—one of the principal dimensions of manner—in relation to the expression of space in Estonian, a satellite-framed and morphology-rich language. Our multivariate and extensive corpus analysis is informed by asymmetries attested in languages with regard to expressing space (the goal-over-source bias) and speed (the fast-over-slow bias) where we attempt to explicitly link the two. We demonstrate moderate speed effects in the data in that fast motion verbs tend to combine with Goal, and slow motion verbs with Location and Trajectory expressions, making verbs of fast motion similar to goal verbs in their clausal behaviour. We also show that semantic congruency (i.e., expressing semantic information repeatedly in motion clauses) overrides the goal-over-source bias. That is, although verbs also occur in diverse patterns, they often combine with semantic units that mirror their meaning: goal verbs tend to combine with Goal, source verbs with Source, and manner verbs with Manner expressions. Such semantic congruency might serve as a tool for construal and, thus, is an important issue for future research.

Key words corpus study; Estonian; motion verbs; multivariate analysis; space; speed

A network of allostructions: quantified subject constructions in Russian

Tore Nesset, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

Laura A. Janda, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

Abstract This article contributes to Construction Grammar, historical linguistics, and Russian linguistics through an in-depth corpus study of predicate agreement in constructions with quantified subjects. Statistical analysis of approximately 39,000 corpus examples indicates that these constructions constitute a network of constructions (“allostructions”) with various preferences for singular or plural agreement. Factors pull in different directions, and we observe a relatively stable situation in the face of variation. We present an analysis of a multidimensional network of allostructions in Russian, thus contributing to our understanding of allostructional relationships in Construction Grammar. With regard to historical linguistics, language stability is an understudied field. We illustrate an interplay of divergent factors that apparently resists language change. The syntax of numerals and other quantifiers represents a notoriously complex phenomenon of the Russian language. Our study sheds new light on the contributions of factors that favor singular or plural agreement in sentences with quantified subjects.

Key words agreement; allostruction; Construction Grammar; corpus; language change; quantifiers; Russian

What makes a complement false? Looking at the effects of verbal semantics and perspective in Mandarin children’s interpretation of complement-clause constructions and their false-belief understanding

Silke Brandt, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

Honglan Li, School of Foreign Studies , Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

Angel Chan, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China; Research Centre for Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China; The Hong Kong Polytechnic University – Peking University Research Centre on Chinese Linguistics, Hong Kong, China.

Abstract Research focusing on Anglo-European languages indicates that children’s acquisition of the subordinate structure of complement-clause constructions and the semantics of mental verbs facilitates their understanding of false belief, and that the two linguistic factors interact. Complement-clause constructions support false-belief development, but only when used with realis mental verbs like ‘think’ in the matrix clause (de Villiers, Jill. 2007. The interface of language and Theory of Mind. Lingua 117(11). 1858–1878). In Chinese, however, only the semantics of mental verbs seems to play a facilitative role in false-belief development (Cheung, Him, Hsuan-Chih Chen & William Yeung. 2009. Relations between mental verb and false belief understanding in Cantonese-speaking children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 104(2). 141–155). We argue that these cross-linguistic differences can be explained by variations in availability and usage patterns of mental verbs and complement-clause constructions across languages. Unlike English, Mandarin-Chinese has a verb that indicates that a belief might be false: yi3wei2 ‘(falsely) think’. Our corpus analysis suggests that, unlike English caregivers, Mandarin-Chinese caregivers do not produce frequent, potentially unanalyzed, chunks with mental verbs and first-person subjects, such as ‘I think’. In an experiment, we found that the comprehension of complement-clause constructions used with yi3wei2 ‘(falsely) think’, but not with jue2de2 ‘think’, predicted Mandarin children’s false-belief understanding between the ages of 4 and 5. In contrast to English, whether mental verbs were used with first- or third-person subjects did not affect their correlation with false-belief understanding.

Key words chunks; complement clauses; cross-linguistic; false belief; verbal semantics

ABB, a salient prototype of collocate–ideophone constructions in Mandarin Chinese

Thomas Van Hoey, Department of Linguistics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Abstract ABB words in Chinese, e.g., hēi-qīqī ‘pitch black’, have been studied for a long time. Most traditional studies analyze these words through derivational rules involving empty suffixes. However, this is problematic, as they are better seen as compounds involving a prosaic A and an ideophonic BB part. By treating ABB as a schema sanctioned by collocate–ideophonic constructions, it is possible to investigate other similar patterns. A corpus study (more than 5,000 tokens) revealed that on the level of schemas, ABB truly acts as a prototype of such constructions, but that it is far from the only pattern to be identified. A second corpus-based study on the level of exemplars showed there are different pockets of salience and non-uniformity in the data from four angles: cue validity, frequency, dispersion, and constructional preference. This paper provides evidence that the traditional ABB narrative needs to be complemented with usage-based data, and grapple with the lexical salience effects this brings along for words involving iconicity.

Key words ABB; iconicity; ideophones; prototype; tupleization

A chained metonymic approach to ίdὸ ‘eye’ constructional metonymies in Hausa

Mustapha Bala Tsakuwa, College of International Studies, Southwest University, Chongqing, China; Department of Arts and Social Science Education, Faculty of Education, Gombe State University, Gombe, Nigeria

Xu Wen, College of International Studies, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Ibrahim Lamido, Department of Language and Linguistics, Federal University of Kashere, Kashere, Gombe State, Nigeria

Abstract Unlike previous studies which generally seem to focus more on Hausa metaphorical expressions, this study investigates a wide range of uses of ίdὸ ‘eye’ in its constructional metonymy patterns in the language by exploring corpus data that contain over 300 eye-related expressions. We observe that some constructional metonymies maintain a set of fixed words and syntax in activating conceptual shifts and producing eye metonymies while others have semi-fixed patterns and produce the same metonymies. Lexical items like tsόkάlế, kὰn, ὰ, dὰ, and bὰsίrὰ among others are constant constituents in the constructional metonymies in which they appear. In the metonymic chaining, the basic mapping of eye metonymies occurs via the part for part relation under E-metonymies and the sub- for supercategory relation under C-metonymies. We also observe that E→E→C coding has the highest chained metonymic structure in the creation of the eye metonymies. Both attributive and predicative colligates motivate metonymic senses in the language. Finally, our analysis reveals that the eye is metonymically conceptualized and semantically extended to various target domains and produces metonymic conceptualizations that make the eye stand for vision, desire, envy, control, attention, perception, person, meeting, brain, intelligence, and so on.

Key words approach; chained metonymy; constructional metonymy; Hausa; Ido

S. Linde van Schuppen, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

Kobie van Krieken, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

Simon A. Claassen, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

José Sanders, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

Abstract Disruptions in theory of mind faculties and the ability to relate to an intersubjective reality are widely thought to be crucial to schizophrenic symptomology. This paper applies a cognitive linguistic framework to analyze spontaneous perspective-taking in two corpora of stories told by people with a schizophrenia diagnosis. We elicited natural narrative language use through life story interviews and a guided storytelling task and analyzed the linguistic construal of viewpoint in these stories. For this analysis, we developed a reliable and widely applicable viewpoint model that allows for the categorization and quantification of speakers’ linguistic presentation and navigation of spatiotemporal domains. We found that our participants skillfully presented, navigated and embedded different narrative viewpoints through a variety of linguistic viewpoint devices. They presented complex viewpoints of other people in both the here-and-now of the interaction and the there-and-then of a narrative, and made use of transition markers to demarcate spatiotemporal discourse domains. We found no differences in viewpoint variables when comparing their guided stories to a control group. If problems with intersubjectivity are indeed an essential part of schizophrenia, an explanation of how this group can take on and navigate complex linguistic viewpoints in natural narrative interaction is called for.

Key words direct speech and thought; intersubjectivity; linguistic viewpoint; oral narrative; schizophrenia

Chinese synthetic verbs: a further challenge to manner/result complementarity on the basis of lexical root meaning analysis

Tianyu Li, Beijing Electronic Science and Technology Institute, Beijing, China

Abstract This paper introduces Chinese synthetic verbs and analyses their contributions to debates in manner/result complementarity studies and cognitive typology studies. Chinese synthetic verbs simultaneously express manner information and path/result information, but encode them into separate root slots under Beavers and Koontz-Garboden’s (2012. Manner and result in the roots of verbal meaning. Linguistic Inquiry 43(3). 331–369) scopal modifier test, so they differ from English “manner+result verbs” and further challenge the manner/result complementarity hypothesis. Synthetic verbs followed by redundant path/result verbs constitute double-framing structures that twice encode the framing information, and the non-motion case, i.e., the “synthetic verb+result verb” structure, supplements Croft et al.’s (2010. Revising Talmy’s typological classification of complex event constructions. In Hans C. Boas (ed.), Contrastive studies in construction grammar, vol. 10, 201–235. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company) classification that only includes the motion case, so that Chinese synthetic verbs complement the discussion on double-framing structures. This paper thereby further falsifies the manner/result complementarity hypothesis and provides an overall illustration of the double-framing structure in cognitive typology. This paper also illustrates the diachronic changes of manner, which might be universal and await further investigation.

Key words Chinese synthetic verbs; cognitive typology; diachronic changes of manner; double-framing structures; lexical root meaning analysis; manner/result complementarity

An assessment of the fourth law of Kuryłowicz: does prototypicality of meaning affect language change?

Isabeau De Smet, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; FWO (Research Foundation Flanders), Brussel, Belgium

Abstract According to the (in)famous fourth law of Kuryłowicz (K4), when a morphological doublet arises in a language, the newer form becomes associated with the prototypical, basic meaning, while the old form takes a secondary meaning. This paper takes a first attempt at a more thorough inquiry of K4 to assess whether prototypicality of meaning has an effect on morphological change. Three studies on historical Dutch are taken on: -en versus -s plurals, the apocope of schwa and the apocope of -de. The effects of prototypicality are analysed both on a token level (differences in meaning within lemmas) as well as on a type level (differences between lemmas). As proxies for prototypicality of meaning (psycho)linguistic predictors are used, such as concreteness, age of acquisition, chronology of meaning, meaning frequency and metaphor. Results show no clear effect of prototypicality on a token level, but they do suggest an effect on a type level: more concrete meanings tend to show up more often with the newer variant. Yet these results may also be ascribed to iconicity as the newer variants in these cases are the shorter ones and concrete meanings tend to be represented by shorter words than abstract ones.

Key words concreteness; Dutch; historical linguistics; prototypicality

The complexity principle and the morphosyntactic alternation between case affixes and postpositions in Estonian

Jane Klavan, Department of English Studies, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Ole Schützler, Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Abstract This paper investigates three morphosyntactic alternations in Estonian – those between the exterior locative cases allative, adessive and ablative and the corresponding postpositions peale ‘onto’, peal ‘on’ and pealt ‘off’. Based on the Complexity Principle (e.g., Rohdenburg, Günter. 2002. Processing complexity and the variable use of prepositions in English. In Hubert Cuyckens & Günter Radden (eds.), Perspectives on prepositions, 79–100. Tübingen: Niemeyer), we expect cognitively more complex constructions to use more explicit (i.e., morphologically more substantial) marking by means of a postposition. Further, we expect variation to be conditioned similarly in all three semantic categories. For each of the three alternations, a random sample of the two outcomes (case vs. postposition) from the Estonian National Corpus is used, resulting in 3,000 data points. Using properties of the Landmark phrase as independent variables in Bayesian mixed-effects logistic regression models, we predict the choice of postpositions over case-marked realisations. Of the patterns found, only the frequency-related one supports our complexity-related hypothesis. We conclude that the Complexity Principle, in its general form, has little explanatory power for the Estonian constructions at hand and, in particular, that the derived principle of ‘analytic support’ is not generally applicable. We show, however, that the grammatical knowledge of Estonian exterior locative cases and the corresponding postpositions is regulated by our three factors in a relatively uniform way.

Key words  alternations; Bayesian regression; complexity principle; Estonian

期刊简介

Objective目标

Cognitive Linguistics presents a forum for linguistic research of all kinds on the interaction between language and cognition. The journal focuses on language as an instrument for organizing, processing and conveying information. Cognitive Linguistics is a peer-reviewed journal of international scope and seeks to publish only works that represent a significant advancement to the theory or methods of cognitive linguistics, or that present an unknown or understudied phenomenon.

《认知语言学》为各种语言学研究语言与认知的相互作用提供了一个论坛。该期刊专注于语言作为组织，处理和传达信息的工具。《认知语言学》是一本具有国际范围的同行评审期刊，旨在仅发表代表认知语言学理论或方法的重大进步的作品，或呈现未知或未充分研究的现象的作品。

Topics主题

the structural characteristics of natural language categorization (such as prototypicality, cognitive models, metaphor, and imagery); 自然语言分类的结构特征（如原型性、认知模型、隐喻和意象）

the functional principles of linguistic organization, as illustrated by iconicity;标示性说明的语言组织的功能原理

the conceptual interface between syntax and semantics;语法与语义之间的概念界面

the experiential background of language-in-use, including the cultural background;语言使用的体验背景，包括文化背景

the relationship between language and thought, including matters of universality and language specificity语言与思想的关系，包括普遍性和语言特异性问题

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