Toward a Cognitive Classical Linguistics
The Embodied Basis of Constructions in Greek and Latin
Author(s)
Mocciaro, Egle
Michael, William
Language
EnglishAbstract
Building on the momentum enjoyed by cognitive-functional approaches within Classics, this volume gathers a series of papers that bring the study of grammatical and syntactic constructions in both Greek and Latin under the perspective of theories developed in cognitive linguistics, revealing the role of human embodiment in determining the meanings of various linguistic phenomena.
Keywords
classical cognitive linguistics; Greek; Latin; embodied meaningDOI
10.1515/9783110616347ISBN
9783110616347, 9783110616330, 9783110616767, 9783110616347Publisher
De GruyterPublisher website
https://www.degruyter.com/Publication date and place
Berlin/Boston, 2019Imprint
De Gruyter Open PolandClassification
Linguistics
Historical and comparative linguistics
Language learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation
Ancient, classical and medieval texts
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval