1.
Grammatical blending in the use of syntactic constructions
We
develop an analysis of sentence processing as a case of conceptual and
linguistic blending (what we refer to as grammatical blending or grammatical
integration): sentence generation involves the blending of a conceived
event with a syntactic construction; sentence interpretation starts with a
reconstruction of the blending configuration. – 167
The
syntactic constructions serve as integrating frames, allowing the
linguistic representation of complex events as instances of simple clause
constructions. – 167
The
central idea is that simple sentence structures can be used to linguistically
express a complex sequence of events by blending together elements from
the event sequence with the simple sentence structure (the ‘integrating
syntactic construction’). – 167
By
‘blending’, we refer to a general cognitive operation. This operation includes
a cross-space mapping between two input spaces, and selective projection from
the two inputs into a blended space, which may then acquire emergent
structure through completion and elaboration. – 167
Grammatical
blending, like any blending operation, is possible if a correspondence
(cross-space mapping) is found between two conceptual structures in the case of
grammatical blending, the correspondence is between the structure of the novel
conceived event (the one that is communicated) and the semantics of an
integrating syntactic construction. – 167
It is
up to the hearer to reconstruct the blending configuration, and elaborate its
semantics to fit a possible event in the world. This grammatical underspecification
of the blending operation leads to what is sometimes referred to as ‘constructional
ambiguity’, or at other times ‘lexical ambiguity’ (if the underspecification of
the blend is assigned to a particular lexical item). – 171
2.
Blending operations in the Hebrew Morphological binyanim system
3.
Blending and underspecificaion in French causative-passive constructions
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