* Thoughts are often about displaced phenomena but,
prototypically, mind states and emotions are related to a speaker's current context in the relevant fictional or non-fictional world.
Likewise, the verb waddle in (4) is
prototypically predicated of ducks, yet here describes the somewhat unconventional and laughable exit of the author of the anecdote.
(5) Although there are privileged syntactic arguments in different languages that don't show coding, but the necessary behaviour properties (see Van Valin and LaPolla, 1997), here the notion refers to prototypical instances that show coding--namely the nominative case as the case which
prototypically encodes subjects.
Unless we take into account the fact that metaphor and metonymy are basic cognitive processes and that reality is categorized
prototypically then it will be very difficult for us to be able to explain the evolutionary leaps produced in language and the apparent contradictions that we come across in the study of historical semantics.
Since Dowty's (1991) paper has proved so influential ever since it was published, (7) adduces his decomposition into properties that are
prototypically present in agent and patient arguments, respectively.
If, as seems likely, Etkin is alluding to Duchamp's assisted readymade Belle Haleine, Eau de Voilette (Beautiful breath, veil water, 1921), her gesture is leaden, devoid of the complex irony of the crossdressing original, merely reiterating a gross stereotype: the bottle as
prototypically female, the woman as fragile object.
Syntactically, it is shown that causal since clauses are not
prototypically fronted and that both causal and temporal since clauses tend to be postponed.
The latter are best exemplified by ameliorative or pejorative affixes, which cross-linguistically are
prototypically coextensive as a set with diminutive/augmentative suffixes (e.g.
Instead, concepts are
prototypically organised, which means that there are more and less typical objects of a concept.
For Palmer, the notion of "mind" includes "all aspects of our inner life," namely not just
prototypically cognitive activities such as thinking and perceiving, but also "dispositions, feelings, beliefs and emotions" (Fictional Minds 19).
First of all, in both languages pain in facial parts is
prototypically associated with the burning process or a particular fire conception.
The class of verbs that allow dative alternation (3) differs from one language to another but
prototypically involves verbs denoting (potential) transfer of a theme argument between an agent and a recipient.
However, the use of a noun
prototypically related to a first-order entity produces a reification effect.
For this reason, habits commonly associated with negative actions are strictly and
prototypically bound to negative value judgments.
