Cognitive Space and Linguistic Case: Semantic and Syntactic Categories in English

by Izchak M. Schlesinger

Book Overview

This study sheds light on the complex relationship between cognitive and linguistic categories. Challenging the view of cases as categories in cognitive space, Professor Schlesinger proposes an understanding of the concept of case. Drawing on evidence from psycholinguistic research and English language data, he argues that case categories are in fact composed of more primitive cognitive notions: features and dimensions. These are registered in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521027365
• ISBN13: 9780521027366
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"