Can grammar make you feel different?

Maratsos, Michael P; Katis, Demetra; Margheri, Annalisa

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“…One might speculate that the various types of experiential constructions reflect different conceptualisations or types of experiencers and that, for instance, the generalised construction types ascribe a more agent‐like character to the experiencer argument and that the inverted construction types ascribe a more patient‐like to this participant (cf. Schlesinger 1992: 318–25; Croft 1993; Halliday & Kirkwood 1994: 108; Van Valin and LaPolla 1997: 126; Maratsos et al 2000; Haspelmath 2001). However, while a hypothesis along these lines is clearly attractive, as it would provide a cognitively based explanation for the variation in argument realization patterns found in the languages we have examined, more detailed research is needed before a claim along these lines could be substantiated.…”

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“…Wierzbicka (1991: 389) shows that in Russian volitionality is grammaticalised to some extent in the domain of experience, as there is a syntactic contrast between ‘voluntary’ and ‘involuntary emotions’. These facts show that parameters such as volitionality and control are not always straightforwardly delineated in the realm of experience as they are in typical activities and other states of affairs (see Maratsos et al 2000 for further discussion on different degrees of control characterising different types of emotions).…”

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The Argument Structure of Experience: Experiential Constructions in Early Vedic, Homeric Greek and Early Latin¹

Dahl

Fedriani

2012

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In this paper we investigate different types of argument-structure constructions associated with so-called experiential predicates in Early Vedic, Homeric Greek and Early Latin. We argue that the broad range of argument-realisation patterns associated with experiential verbs in these languages reflects the fact that experiential predicates differ in fundamental respects from prototypically transitive verbs which we take to represent the perhaps most salient verb type in natural language. We survey the most important construction types attested in the domain of experience in the languages under scrutiny with particular regard to recurrent paths of association between experiential verb classes and their argument-realisation options. Finally, on the basis of our data we provide some proposals regarding the main tendencies in the linguistic organisation of this complex functional domain in Proto-Indo-European. 1 We would like to thank the audience at the Workshop on Variation and Change in Argument Realization in Naples and Capri for their feedback after our talk there as well as Jo´hanna Barðdal, Michela Cennamo, Pierluigi Cuzzolin, Serena Danesi, Tonya Kim Dewey and three anonymous reviewers for commenting on earlier versions of this paper, thereby significantly enhancing its final form. Of course, all responsibility for any remaining weaknesses, theoretical as well as philological, remains our own. Through the generosity of the Fondation Colette Caillat of the Institut de France Eystein Dahl enjoyed free housing during a three-month research visit to Paris from October to December 2011, during which parts of this paper reached their present form, for which he hereby wishes to express his sincere gratitude. This contribution is the result of fruitful discussions and inspiring collaboration between the authors over the last few years. Chiara Fedriani wrote the main parts of sections 2, 3.1 and 3.2 and Eystein Dahl the main parts of sections 1, 3.3 and 4.2 In this paper, Early Vedic is understood as the language of Rigveda (RV) and Atharvaveda (AVS´), Homeric Greek as the language of the Iliad (Il.) and the Odyssey (Od.) and Early Latin as the language of Plautus (Plaut.) and Terence (Ter.).3 Cf. also Dahl (forthcoming a) on experiential constructions in Early Vedic.

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The Argument Structure of Experience: Experiential Constructions in Early Vedic, Homeric Greek and Early Latin¹

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The Language of Emotions

Ponsonnet

2014

Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts

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The Language of Emotions: The case of Dalabon (Australia) is the first extensive study of the linguistic encoding of emotions in an Australian language, and further, in an endangered, non-European language. Based on first-hand data collected using innovative methods, the monograph describes and analyzes how Dalabon speakers express emotions (using interjections, prosody, evaluative morphology) and the words they use to describe and discuss emotions. Like many languages, Dalabon makes broad use of body-part words in descriptions of emotions. The volume analyzes the figurative functions of these body-part words, as well as their non-figurative functions. Correlations between linguistic features and cultural patterns are systematically questioned. Beyond Australianists and linguists working on emotions, the book will be of interest to anthropological linguists, cognitive linguists, or linguists working on discourse and communication for instance. It is accessible also to non-linguists with an interest in language, in particular anthropologists and psychologists.

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Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts

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