Thematic Relations A Study in the Grammar-Cognition Interface
This book presents a proposal to better define thematic relations by exploring the relation between language and cognition. It analyzes the relation between grammatically defined roles such as agent and patient (semantic roles), and elaborate thematic rel
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Thematic Relations
A Study in the Grammar-Cognition Interface
Thematic Relations
Mário A. Perini
Thematic Relations A Study in the Grammar-Cognition Interface
Mário A. Perini Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Preface
This book grew out of questions that arose during the construction of the Valency dictionary of Brazilian Portuguese verbs, and from my previous work on the topic, since about 2005. In a previous book (Perini 2015), I deal with basic theory and practical questions of analysis; the present one takes these practical questions a step ahead, adding a number of new examples, and also touches on more general questions, which extend to lexicogrammatical analysis in a wider sense. The reader may find that my text rambles over several theoretical problems, but these problems are actually connected with the general aim of making the relation between form and meaning explicit, and describing it in such a way as to reach the two extreme points of the process, namely phonetic form and meaning structure, both of which are accessible to observation, sensorially and introspectively. I argue that the introspective component is just as concrete and observable as the phonetic one; in this, I follow methodologically concerned authors such as Itkonen (1974) and Talmy (2007), as well as most linguists working on the analysis of particular languages, who sometimes do not acknowledge their debt to introspective observation, but make use of it just the same. Introspection is
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