Thematic Relations: A Study in the Grammar-Cognition Interface by Mário A. Perini
English | PDF | 2019 | 246 Pages | ISBN : 3030285375 | 2.7 MB
This book presents a proposal to better define thematic relations by exploring the relation between language and cognition. It analyzes the relation between grammatically defined roles such as agent and patient (semantic roles), and elaborate thematic relations (ETRs) actually accessible to language users. It shows that many phenomena previously analyzed as grammatical can be described in a more simple and convenient way by postulating direct connection between syntactic complements and cognitive relations present in the schema evoked by the verb.