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- Title
Conceptualizing cause as background: The [N<sub>mental state</sub>.Poss.Iness]<sub>cause</sub> construction.
- Authors
Dóla, Mónika; Viszket, Anita
- Abstract
In the paper, we argue that expressions like bánatomban 'in my grief' and ijedtében 'in his/her fright' are instances of a construction in its own right within the Hungarian language system, which is used in text to make predication about the mental state of the Agent subject as a cause for their action. In the first half of the paper, we describe the formal and functional characteristics of the construction. We propose that the construction, which we call [Nmental state.Poss.Iness]cause or, for ease, the mental-state-as-cause construction, is entrenched for the expression of cause in Hungarian, and that this status imposes several morpho-syntactical and lexical-semantic constraints on the construction and on the sentence. We also argue that in the construction, the possessive morpheme/phrase is subject to grammaticalization. In the second half of the paper, we investigate the cognitiveconceptual profile of the construction as an expression of cause, and we propose that in the construction as a cognitive unit, mental-state-as-cause is conceptualized as background.
- Subjects
HUNGARIAN language; SENTENCES (Grammar); MORPHEMICS; GRAMMATICALIZATION; COGNITIVE ability
- Publication
Argumentum (1787-3606), 2019, Issue 15, p168
- ISSN
1787-3606
- Publication type
Article