Constructions in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected Papers from the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997

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by  Ad Foolen

CONSTRUCTIONS IN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND
HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE
General Editor
E. F. KONRAD KOERNER
(University of Ottawa)
Series IV - CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY
Advisory Editorial Board
Raimo Anttila (Los Angeles); Lyle Campbell (Christchurch, N.Z.)
Sheila Embleton (Toronto); John E. Joseph (Edinburgh)
Manfred Krifka (Austin, Tex.); Hans-Heinrich Lieb (Berlin)
E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.); Hans-Jürgen Sasse (Köln)
Volume 178
Ad Fooien and Frederike van der Leek (eds.)
Constructions in Cognitive Linguistics
Selected papers from the Fiflh International Cognitive Linguistics Conference,
Amsterdam, 1997
CONSTRUCTIONS IN
COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL
COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE
Amsterdam, 1997
Edited by
AD FOOLEN
University of Nijmegen
FREDFRIKE VAN DER LEEK
University of Amsterdam
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY
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International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (1997 : He Amsterdam) Constructions in cognitive
linguistics : selected papers from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amster­
dam, 1997 / edited by Ad Fooien, Frederike van der Leek.
p. cm. -- (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV,
Current issues in linguistic theory, ISSN 0304-0763 ; v. 178)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Cognitive grammar-Congresses. I. Fooien, Ad. II. Leek, Frederike van der. III. Title. IV. Series.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vii
Editors' Foreword ix
Pragmatic Conditionals
Angeliki Athanasiadou & René Dirven 1
How Polish Structures Space: Prepositions, Direction Nouns,
Case, and Metaphor
Barbara Dancygier 27
Case Meaning and Sequence of Attention: Source Landmarks
as Accusative and Dative Objects of the Verb
Robert B. Dewell 47
Fijian Children's Possessive Categories and Constructions
Patrick Griffiths 67
Facing up to the Meaning of 'face up to':
A Cognitive Semantico-Pragmatic Analysis of an English
Verb-Particle Construction
Beate Hampe 81
Gerundive Nominalization: From Type Specification to
Grounded Instance
Liesbet Heyvaert 103
A Cognitive Approach to Errors in Case Marking in
Japanese Agrammatism: The Priority of the Goal -ni
over the Source -kara
Hiroko  & Ikuyo Fujita 123
VI CONTENTS
Verbal Aspect and Construal
Agota Kochañska 141
How I got myself arrested: Underspecificity in Grammatical
Blends as a Source for Constructional Ambiguity
Nili Mandelblit & Gilles Fauconnier 167
Konjunktiv II and Epistemic Modals in German:
A Division of Labour
Tanja Mortelmans 191
Subjectivity and Conditionality: The Marking of
Speaker Involvement in Modern Greek
Kiki Nikiforidou & Demetra Katis 111
English Imperatives and Passives
Hidemitsu Takahashi 239
Lexical Causatives in Thai
Kingkarn Thepkanjana 259
Cognitive Models in Transitive Construal in the
Japanese Adversative Passive
Eijiro Tsuboi 283
Caused-Motion and the 'Bottom-Up' Role of Grammar
Frederike van der Leek 301
Addresses 333
Index 335
Acknowledgements
This volume was realized with the help of a great many people. First of all we
would like to thank all authors for their contributions and cooperation. Thanks
are also due to the following people who acted as anonymous reviewers:
Michel Achard, Willem Botha, Melissa Bowerman, Claudia Brugman, Eve
Clark, Herbert Clark, Kenneth Cook, Barbara Dancygier, Bob Dewell,
Matthew Dryer, Patrick Duffley, Peter Harder, Joe Hilferty, Bob Kirsner, Ron
Langacker, David Lee, Ricardo Maldonado, Yo Matsumoto, Haruko Minegishi
Cook, Laura Michaelis, Kiki Nikiforidou, Jan Nuyts, Jan-Ola Östman, Maria
Polinsky, Klaus-Uwe Panther, Jo Rubba, Masayoshi Shibatani, Simon Slings,
Michael Smith, Leon Stassen, Eve Sweetser, John Taylor, Friedrich Ungerer,
Johan van der Auwera, Marjolijn Verspoor and Margaret Winters.
We thank Anke de Looper of John Benjamins Publishing Company for her
professional advice and her patience and, last but not least, Rob van den Berg
for his moral support and his expertise in preparing the final versions of the
papers.
Nijmegen/Amsterdam
November 1999
Ad Fooien & Frederike van der Leek

Editors' Foreword
This volume contains a selection from the proceedings of the 5th
International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, which was held at the Free
University in Amsterdam, from July 14-19, 1997. The volume is a companion
of two others that also contain selected papers of the same conference:
Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics, edited by Raymond W. Gibbs Jr. and
Gerard J. Steen (CILT 175) and Discourse Studies in Cognitive Linguistics,
edited by Karen van Hoek, Andrej A. Kibrik and Leo Noordman (CILT 176).
The title of the present volume may be assumed to speak, to a certain
extent, for itself. As Goldberg (1995:1) observes, "[t]he notion construction
has a time-honored place in linguistics", but was temporarily renounced in the
Chomsky an Government and Binding framework. In Cognitive Linguistics, it
is given pride of place again, though the notion is, on the whole, subject to
different interpretations as far as scope and organizational level are concerned.
Langacker (1987:409) sees grammatical constructions as the form-meaning
"integration of two or more component structures to form a composite
expression". The Construction Grammar framework (cf. Fillmore & Kay to
appear) employs the much more rigorous notion that a particular form-meaning
combination is a construction only if it has some (form and/or meaning)
property that "is not strictly predictable from [its] component parts, or from
other previously established constructions" (Goldberg 1995:4). Beyond the
consensus, then, that constructions constitute recognizable form-meaning
patterns, opinions differ.
This is also evident from the papers making up the present volume. They
seem to vary significantly in their vision on what constructions are. The
research areas they are concerned with, also cover a wide range of different
topics. For this reason we have decided to make no attempt to organize the
papers thematically; we simply present them in alphabetical order.
In order to give the reader some preliminary idea of what this volume
has to offer, we will, however, first outline its contents from various angles.
Except for Griffiths' paper, which deals with child language, all the papers are
directly concerned with particular constructions as used by mature speakers.
A variety of languages is covered; in alphabetical order: English, Fijian,
French, German, (Modern) Greek, (Modern) Hebrew, Japanese, Polish and
Thai. Two of the papers, by Griffiths and Ihara & Fujita, are experimentally
based and approach the constructions dealt with from psychological angles, i.e.