2011
DOI: 10.1075/hcp.30.14str
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Invisible, visible, grammaticalization

Abstract: The present chapter underlines the claim that grammatical forms are neither “meaningless”, nor can be regarded as a “paradoxon” (Pustet 2005: 186). On the contrary, grammar is meaningful and reflects the physical, psychological, and social experience of speakers. Furthermore it is illustrated that the motivation and mental images behind the rise of grammaticalization products can be reduced to the following formula: an abstract action or concept that is invisible in the discourse world is made “visible” with t… Show more

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“…pas 'not a step'), etc. (Stroebel, 2011(Stroebel, , 2016a. The psychological reality of all of these examples rests on the activation of the same sensorimotor cortex, regardless of whether an action is carried out or simply imagined, (Gallese & Lakoff, 2005).…”
Section: The Close Link Between Sensorimotor Actions and Languagementioning
confidence: 99%
“…pas 'not a step'), etc. (Stroebel, 2011(Stroebel, , 2016a. The psychological reality of all of these examples rests on the activation of the same sensorimotor cortex, regardless of whether an action is carried out or simply imagined, (Gallese & Lakoff, 2005).…”
Section: The Close Link Between Sensorimotor Actions and Languagementioning
confidence: 99%
“…pas 'not a step'), etc. (Ströbel, 2010(Ströbel, , 2011. In all these examples the underlying strategy is based on the fact that not only the same brain areas are activated whether we ful ll or just imagine an action, but that we can also imagine a sensory-motor task, such as grasping an object without actually grasping it (Gallese and Lako , 2005) and that is exactly what makes sensory-motor concepts so suitable for rendering abstract entities less abstract by connecting them to concrete bodily actions (Ströbel, 2014).…”
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