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Preface | p. ix |
Language and beyond | |
Language and situations | p. 3 |
Preliminary remarks | p. 3 |
Previous approaches to situation and verb typology | p. 3 |
The present approach | p. 5 |
Aspectual types | p. 14 |
Syntactic types | p. 20 |
Summary | p. 27 |
Language and perception | p. 29 |
Preliminary remarks | p. 29 |
ôNewö linguistic data | p. 31 |
Naming strategies and lexicalization patterns | p. 39 |
Descriptions of activities based on postures | p. 44 |
Descriptions of actions involving a location | p. 48 |
Framing strategies and the ordering of linguistic elements | p. 53 |
Results from eye-tracking studies and brain scan tests | p. 61 |
Language and cognition | p. 66 |
Preliminary remarks | p. 66 |
Introducing the event vs. process distinction | p. 67 |
The mental model of events and its instruction | p. 68 |
Linguistic evidence for the three psychological dimensions | p. 74 |
Firstness, secondness and thirdness | p. 77 |
The mental model of processes and its instruction | p. 78 |
Background knowledge of actions | p. 81 |
From assimilation to accommodation in the human mind | p. 87 |
Concluding remarks | p. 91 |
Grammar and communication | |
Grammar and pragmatics | p. 95 |
Introduction | p. 95 |
Grammar in communication | p. 96 |
Product and consumer communication | p. 102 |
The layered structure of imperatives | p. 110 |
Towards a deeper understanding of indirect speech acts | p. 115 |
The imperative frame analysis | p. 119 |
Conclusions | p. 125 |
Grammar and semiotics | p. 126 |
Preliminary remarks | p. 126 |
Introduction | p. 127 |
The simple sign of nouns and verbs | p. 130 |
The simple sign as an image-idea pair | p. 133 |
Arbitrariness and motivatedness of the simple sign | p. 144 |
The complex sign as a dynamic unit - an index | p. 147 |
The semiotic function of grammar | p. 154 |
Discussing icons, indexes and symbols | p. 160 |
Conclusions | p. 163 |
Language inside out | |
From types to supertypes | p. 167 |
The various typological trichotomies | p. 167 |
Introducing the three linguistic supertypes | p. 174 |
Supertypes and related issues | p. 179 |
The basic voice of language | p. 184 |
Introduction | p. 184 |
Reality-oriented languages | p. 185 |
Speaker-oriented languages | p. 200 |
Hearer-oriented languages | p. 206 |
Concluding remarks | p. 214 |
Linguistic expansion | p. 216 |
Introductory remarks | p. 216 |
The expanding function of Russian aspect | p. 216 |
The expanding function of Bulgarian mood | p. 223 |
The expanding function of Danish tense | p. 227 |
Recapitulating and concluding | p. 232 |
The principal and secondary voice of language | p. 236 |
Introduction | p. 236 |
The principal and secondary voice of Russian | p. 238 |
The principal and secondary voice of Bulgarian | p. 245 |
The principal and secondary voice of Danish | p. 251 |
Conclusions | p. 260 |
Focusing summary | p. 261 |
References | p. 267 |
Definition list | p. 295 |
Index | p. 307 |
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