Description
Book SynopsisThis monograph presents a contrastive-corpus analysis of the semantic category of gratification. It takes as a case study the verb reward and its various forms in Polish and in English, as prototypical of the semantics of gratification. The study, set predominantly in the framework of semantic syntax, and drawing from the theory of valence and frame semantics, adopts a corpus-driven and usage-based approach to language analysis. By exploring the syntactic realization and distribution of arguments opened by the predicates of gratification in the two languages, the book offers new insights into language representation in English and Polish, and addresses the combinatoricity of human thought and cognitive mechanisms reflected in the lexicalization patterns of the situation of rewarding.
Table of Contents
- a contrastive-corpus analysis of the semantic category of gratification
- a case study the predicate5 reward and its various forms in Polish and in English
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- set in the framework of semantic syntax, the theory of valence and frame semantics
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- based on data derived from a wide variety of sources from modern corpora
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- addresses the phenomenon of the combinatoricity of human thought
