Constructions In Cognitive Linguistics: Selected Papers From The International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997

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 AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences — Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 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. P165.I58 2000 415-4IC21 99-089845 ISBN 90 272 3684 4 (Eur.) / 1 55619 955 4 (US) (Hb; alk. paper) CIP © 2000 - John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. • P.O.Box 75577 • 1070 AN Amsterdam • The Netherlands John Benjamins North America • P.O.Box 27519 • Philadelphia PA 19118-0519 • USA 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 A Cognitive Approach to Errors in Case Marking in Japanese Agrammatism: The Priority of the Goal -ni over the Source -kara Hiroko  & Ikuyo Fujita 103 123 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 <