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Ergebnisse mit der Szintigraphie bei der Diagnose oessaerer Metastasen des Mammakarzinoms
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The area of the paarspinal muscle mass in patients with cirrhosis although not different from controls predicts cirrhosis-associated complications and death in a large mono-centric study
Multiple Sources in Language Change: the Role of Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in the Formation of English ACC-ing Gerundives
Isolated Tearing and Avulsion of the Distal Biceps Femoris Tendon During Sporting Activities: A Systematic Review
Ception and the discrepancy between vision and language
This chapter deals with the sensory perception of vision and investigates
the correlation between body, mind, and language in a corpus of English written
descriptions of pictorial material. Expressions such as The track plunges down the
mountain or The biceps muscle goes from the shoulder to the elbow represent a
specific type of event verbalisation, which Talmy (1983) named \u2018Fictive Motion\u2019,
whereby a degree of discrepancy exists between the visual experience of a stationary
scene (track, muscle) and its linguistic description as a motion event (to
plunge, to go). The production of such sentences requires the percipient/describer to
mentally simulate motion along a path or linear configuration, although the subject
noun phrase is a stationary entity. The frameworks of Cognitive Semantics (Talmy
2000) and Embodiment (Gallese and Lakoff 2005; Boulenger et al. 2008) along with
the cognitively-oriented version of Construction Grammar (Goldberg 2006; Ruiz
de Mendoza and Mairal Us\uf3n 2008) are the main theoretical approaches brought
together (1) to address the category of General Fictivity and the Embodied Cognition
Theory, (2) to analyse the syntactic patterns of FictiveMotion expressions, (3) to
show the inconsistency of Matlock\u2019s (2004) \u201cbinary typology\u201d, and (4) to pin down
the internal and external constraints that licence the wording of nonveridical motion
events