Principium incipiendi: towards a cognitive motivation for ingressive 'haptic' verbs
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González Pérez, Manuel David
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Journal article
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English
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text (article)
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2017
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Studia philologica valentina ISSN 1135-9560 Nº. 1 (Selección de algunos trabajos de noveles investigadores sometidos a la "evaluación por pares"), 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: QUAERITE ET INVENIETIS. CONTRIBUCIONES A LA INVESTIGACIÓN EN ESTUDIOS CLÁSICOS), pags. 31-40
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Many words signalling the beginning of an event derive from verbs with the concrete meaning 'seize'. While other recurrent patterns exist, what we call 'haptic' roots seem to be the most common metaphorical source domain for encoding this temporal-sequential concept in Indo-European languages, laying the basis for a corresponding grammaticalization pathway. The present paper presents data from over 20 languages supporting the non-arbitrariness of this semantic shift and offers a theoretical account of the cognitive principles it rests upon.