Panther Klaus-Uwe, Radden Günter (Editors). Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon

John Benjamins, 2011. — vii, 306 pages. — (Human Cognitive Processing). — ISBN: 978-90-272-8702-1.Language structure and use are largely shaped by cognitive processes such as categorizing, framing, inferencing, associative (metonymic), and analogical (metaphorical) thinking, and – mediated through cognition – by bodily experience, emotion, perception, action, social/communicative interaction, culture, and the internal ecology of the linguistic system itself. The contributors to the present volume demonstrate how these language-independent factors motivate grammar and the lexicon in a variety of languages such as English, German, French, Italian, Hungarian, Russian, Croatian, Japanese, and Korean. The volume will be of great interest to students and scholars in cognitive and functional linguistics.Introduction: Reflections on motivation revisited
Motivation in grammar
Semantic motivation of the English auxiliary
The mind as ground: A study of the English existential construction
Motivating the flexibility of oriented -ly adverbs
The cognitive motivation for the use of dangling participles in English
What motivates an inference? The emergence of contrast/concessive from temporal/spatial overlap
The conceptual motivation of aspect
Metaphoric motivation in grammatical structure: The caused-motion construction from the perspective of the Lexical-Constructional Model
Motivation in English must and Hungarian kell
The socio-cultural motivation of referent honorifics in Korean and Japanese
Motivation in the Lexicon
Conceptual motivation in adjectival semantics: Cognitive reference points revisited
Metonymy, metaphor and the “weekend frame of mind”: Towards motivating the micro-variation in the use of one type of metonymy
Intrinsic or extrinsic motivation? Th implications of metaphor and metonymy-based polysemy for transparency in the lexicon
Motivational networks: An empirically supported cognitive phenomenon
The “meaning-full” vocabulary of English and German: An empirical study on lexical motivatability