刊讯｜SSCI 期刊《认知语言学》2024年第1-2期

COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS    

Volume 35, Issue 1-2,2024

COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS（SSCI一区，2023 IF：1.8，排名：55/194）2024年第1-2期共发文10篇。其中，2024年第1期共发研究性论文5篇。论文涉及动词研究、构式、语料库研究、隐喻等。第2期共发研究性论文5篇。论文涉及形态的统一性和可变性等。欢迎转发扩散！

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ISSUE 1-2

ARTICLES

■Typological shift of Mandarin Chinese in terms of motion verb lexicalization pattern, by Liu Linjun EMAIL logo and He Yingxin, page range:1-33.

■ The boundary-crossing constraint revisited: movement verbs across varieties of Spanish, by Rosalía Calle Bocanegra, Page range: 35-66.

■ Allostructions and stancetaking: a corpus study of the German discourse management constructions Wo/wenn wir gerade/schon dabei sind, by Melitta Gillmann, Page range: 67-107.

■ Moving Figures and Grounds in music description, by Phillip Wadley, Thora Tenbrink and Alan Wallington, Page range:109-141.

■ When life is no longer a journey: the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the metaphorical conceptualization of life among Hungarian adults – a representative survey, by Réka Benczes, István Benczes, Bence Ságvári, Lilla Petronella Szabó, Page range:143-165.

■Cognitive approaches to uniformity and variability in morphology, by Petar Milin, Neil Bermel, James P. Blevins, Page range:167-176.

■Ideal and real paradigms: language users, reference works and corpora, by Neil Bermel, Luděk Knittl, Martin Alldrick, Alexandre Nikolaev, Page range:177-219.

■Baseless derivation: the behavioural reality of derivational paradigms,by Maria Copot, Olivier Bonami, Page range:221-250.

■The role of entrenchment and schematisation in the acquisition of rich verbal morphology, by Gordana Hržica, Sara Košutar, Tomislava Bošnjak Botica, Petar Milin, Page range: 251-287.

■Preferences in the use of overabundance: predictors of lexical bias in Estonian, by Mari Aigro, Virve-Anneli Vihman, Page range: 289-312.

摘要

Typological shift of Mandarin Chinese in terms of motion verb lexicalization pattern

Liu Linjun, Liu Linjun, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China

He Yingxin, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China

Abstract Given the controversies over Mandarin Chinese in terms of Talmy’s bipartite language typology, this paper presents an exhaustive study of Chinese motion verbs collected from two authoritative dictionaries, namely, The Ancient Chinese Dictionary (2nd Edition) and The Contemporary Chinese Dictionary (7th Edition). An analysis of 662 motion verbs in ancient Chinese and 693 motion verbs in modern Chinese indicates that Mandarin Chinese has undergone a typological shift from verb-framed to satellite-framed as far as the lexicalization pattern is concerned. The typological shift seems to have been driven by two forces, the decline of monosyllabic motion verbs and the upsurge of disyllabic motion verbs, which, upon second thoughts, can be boiled down to a single but predominant process of disyllabification in Chinese, whereby two (former) roots that bear a wide range of syntactic relations are lexicalized into a disyllabic word. Thus, we see an intriguing case of how phonology and morphosyntax interact to impact the typological properties of a language.

Key words lexicalization pattern, Mandarin Chinese, typological shift, verb-framed, satellite-framed

The boundary-crossing constraint revisited: movement verbs across varieties of Spanish

Rosalía Calle Bocanegra, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech

Abstract Talmy divided the world’s languages according to how they express movement. Spanish, a verb-framed language, purportedly constrains the use of motion verbs expressing the manner of movement (such as roll) to contexts in which no spatial boundary is crossed. Previous research suggests that this constraint sometimes does not apply. We report the first large-scale investigation of the constraint and its modulating factors (movement direction, verb type, entering/exiting, Ground size, the preposition used) across different Spanish-speaking communities. A task with open-ended description of animated videos, a sentence interpretation task, and a rating task found that Spanish and Latin American speakers (n = 180 in total) often use manner verbs to describe boundary-crossing situations (especially entering a place), although this is modulated by the preposition following the verb (more with a than en). Better understanding of this constraint in verb-framed languages has applications in, for instance, L2 acquisition research.

Key words verb-framed language, boundary-crossing constraint, varieties of Spanish, verbal constructions

Allostructions and stancetaking: a corpus study of the German discourse management constructions Wo/wenn wir gerade/schon dabei sind

Melitta Gillmann, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen,Germany

Abstract The paper reconciles the sociolinguistic concept of stance and stancetaking and Construction Grammar (CxG); it shows that overlapping allostructions may differ in terms of the stances they convey. Drawing on a corpus study of Wikipedia Talk pages, the paper presents a case study of German discourse management markers such as wo wir gerade dabei sind ‘speaking of which’ or wenn wir schon dabei sind ‘while we’re at it’. By statistically comparing the observed frequencies of the filler items with the expected ones (using Hierarchical Configural Frequency Analysis and Distinctive Collexeme Analysis), I will argue that there are two different collocational types, namely wo wir/ich gerade bei NP sind/bin ‘as we are/I am just at NP’ and wenn wir/du schon bei NP sind/bist ‘as we/you are already at NP’. Both serve as discourse management markers, topic orientation markers in particular, whose purpose it is to shift the topic. They involve the same fixed pattern, combining the same categorical slots. However, they diverge in collocational preferences. I will argue that these collocational preferences are indicative of the stances the allostructions conventionally convey: While the allostruction wo wir/ich gerade PP sind/bin seems to be neutral in terms of stance (face-less stance), wenn wir/du schon PP sind/bist is often used to express negative evaluation of a previous utterance made by an interlocutor, thus marking disalignment. The expression of disalignment seems to be related to the construction’s propensity to reference utterances made by an interlocutor.

Key words projecting constructions, discourse management markers, allostructions, stance, hierarchical configural frequency analysis

Moving Figures and Grounds in music description

Phillip Wadley, School of Arts, Culture, and Language, Bangor University, 39 College Road, Bangor LL57 2AP, UK

Thora Tenbrink, School of Arts, Culture, and Language, Bangor University, Bangor,UK

Alan Wallington, School of Arts, Culture, and Language, Bangor University, Bangor,UK

Abstract This paper is a systematic investigation of motion expressions in programmatic music description. To address issues with defining the Source MOTION and the Target MUSIC, we utilize Gestalt models (Figure-Ground and Source-Path-Goal) while also critically examining the ontological complexity of the Target MUSIC. We also investigate music motion descriptions considering the role of the describer’s perspective and communicative goals. As previous research has demonstrated, an attentional Goal-bias is common in physical motion description, yet this has been found also to lessen due to audience accommodation effects. We investigate whether this also occurs in music description. Using cognitive linguistic frameworks, we conducted an analysis of 21 English speakers’ written descriptions of dynamic orchestral excerpts. All participants gave a description of one excerpt reporting their own personal experiences and the other excerpt reporting the events of the excerpt for a fictional future participant. We find that addressee accommodation shapes the choice of the ontological types of Figures used from being more subjective and creative in describing music for oneself versus being more objective in describing music for others. However, our investigation does not find sufficient evidence for a Goal-bias in music like there is in physical motion event descriptions.

Key words cognitive discourse analysis, Source-Path-Goal, music metaphor, Figure-Ground; Goal-bias, spatial language

When life is no longer a journey: the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the metaphorical conceptualization of life among Hungarian adults – a representative survey

Réka Benczes, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

István Benczes, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

Bence Ságvári, HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; and Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, USA

Lilla Petronella Szabó, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

Abstract There is ample research on how metaphors of life vary both cross-culturally and within culture, with age emerging as possibly the most significant variable with regard to the latter dimension. However, no representative research has yet been carried on whether variation can also occur across time. Our paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature by exploring whether a major crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, can induce variation in how life is metaphorically conceptualized throughout society. By drawing on the results of a nationwide, representative survey on the metaphorical preferences for life among Hungarian adults carried out during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, we hypothesized that the pandemic would induce a revolutionary change (in the sense of the change being swift, as opposed to gradual) in how Hungarian adults metaphorically conceptualize life, as compared to the metaphorical preferences of the pre-COVID-19 era. We expected this variation to manifest itself in the emergence of novel metaphorical source domains and a realignment in metaphorical preferences. Our results, however, indicate that novel conceptualizations emerged only as one-off metaphors; Hungarians mostly rely on a stock collection of life metaphors even in times of crises, with changes happening mostly in the form of shifts in metaphorical preferences. Our study also found that the choice of preference of the source domains showed less alterations among older adults – implying that the older we get, the more resistant to change our metaphorical conceptualizations become, even under extreme conditions such as COVID-19.

Key words life, metaphor, COVID-19 pandemic, Hungarian, metaphor variation

Cognitive approaches to uniformity and variability in morphology

Petar Milin, Department of Modern Languages, University of Birmingham

Edgbaston, Ashley Building, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom

Neil Bermel, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

James P. Blevins, Department of English, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

Abstract This special issue of Cognitive Linguistics reexamines the notions of uniformity and variability within morphological systems from a cognitive linguistic standpoint. It challenges traditional perspectives that regard morphological variability as mere deviations from the norm, suggesting instead that such variability is systematic and shaped by external influences including language acquisition and processing constraints. The contributions in this issue promote a shift from isolated analysis to a holistic view of paradigms, classes, and systems, advocating for a framework where morphological structures are seen as integral to communicative and functional aspects of language. By accounting for the broad adaptive dynamics of language systems, the complex interplay between uniformity and variability is revealed as an inherent aspect of language usage.

Key words morphology, paradigms, classes, uniformity, variability

Ideal and real paradigms: language users, reference works and corpora

Neil Bermel, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Luděk Knittl, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Martin Alldrick, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

Alexandre Nikolaev, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

Abstract

This article approaches defective and overabundant paradigm cells as an opportunity and pitfall for usage-based linguistics. Through reference to two production tasks involving native speakers of Czech, we show how definitions of these two categories are problematized when multiple forms per context are entrenched, or when pre-emption seems to occur in the absence of entrenchment: in other words, pre-emption occurs via entrenchment of uncertainty. We explain the results by adopting a broader, usage-based perspective. We examine the relationship between frequency (as proxy for exposure) and reference-work information (as proxy for a priori structure) to assess their connection with our experimental results. We assign a role to frequency as helping to form perceptions of   suitable   and   unsuitable   forms, but also note places where non-frequency factors predominate.   Structure   as represented by reference-work recommendations appears to have no significant connection to our experimental results; we discuss reasons for this.

Key words morphology, inflection, Czech, prescriptivism, frequency, entrenchment

Baseless derivation: the behavioural reality of derivational paradigms

Maria Copot, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

Olivier Bonami, Université Paris Cité, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, CNRS, Paris, France

Abstract

Standard accounts of derivational morphology assume that it is incremental: some words are formed on the basis of others, and each derivational family has a base from which all of the other words are derived. The importance of the base has been questioned by paradigmatic approaches to morphology, which posit that word systems are about multidirectional relationships between words and paradigm cells, in which no word has a privileged status. This paper seeks to test which of these two views makes more accurate predictions about speakers   cognitive representations of derivational families. We perform an acceptability judgement experiment in which speakers are asked to evaluate the acceptability of a pseudoword conditional on another pseudoword in the same derivational family. We find that speakers are aware of implicative relationships between words in the same family, and that they opportunistically exploit probabilistic relationships between surface words, regardless of whether the base form is the predictor, the target of prediction, or not at all involved in the task.

Key words morphology, derivation, Word and Paradigm, experimental linguistics

The role of entrenchment and schematisation in the acquisition of rich verbal morphology

Gordana Hržica, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Sara Košutar, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

TomislavaBošnjakBotica, Instituteforthe CroatianLanguage, Zagreb,Croatia

Petar Milin, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

Abstract

Entrenchment and schematisation are the two most important cognitive processes in language acquisition. In this article, the role of the two processes, operationalised by token and type frequency, in the production of overgeneralised verb forms in Croatian preschool children is investigated using a parental questionnaire and computational simulation of language acquisition. The participants of the questionnaire were parents of children aged 3;0 C5;11 years ( n  = 174). The results showed that parents of most children (93?%) reported the parallel use of both adult-like and overgeneralised verb forms, suggesting that Croatian-speaking preschool children have not yet fully acquired the verbal system. The likelihood of overgeneralised forms being reported decreases with the age of the children and verb type frequency. The results of the computational simulation show that patterns with a higher type frequency also show a greater preference for the correct form, while lexical items show both learning and unlearning tendencies during the process.

Key words verbal inflection, entrenchment, schematisation, overgeneralisation, preschool children

Preferences in the use of overabundance: predictors of lexical bias in Estonian

Mari Aigro, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Virve-Anneli Vihman, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Abstract This study of morphological overabundance focuses on the (non-)synonymy of parallel forms in Estonian illative case (  into  ) and the type of entrenchment behind it. We focus on the lexical level, testing whether the form preferred for a lexeme depends on semantic or morphophonological factors, or both. Using multifactorial regression analyses, we compare three corpus datasets: lexemes biased toward long forms, those biased toward short forms and lexemes with balanced form distribution. This is the first study to investigate realised overabundance in this way, and to include inflection class membership in the model, enabling us to test whether declension class subsumes the morphophonological factors found to affect form preference in previous studies. The analysis shows that cell token frequency and inflection class are significant predictors of form preference, while the lexical-semantic features included in the study do not affect formative choice, highlighting the role of cell entrenchment instead of formative entrenchment in guiding form use. In conclusion, the study highlights the important role of inflection class (morphophonology) in the general shaping of form usage patterns in parallel forms and the weak role of semantic factors on the lexical level

Key words overabundance, inflection class, Estonian declension, illative case

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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