For-to Complement Clauses in English: A Cognitive Grammar Analysis

• Published in: Studia linguistica Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 171 - 192
• Main Author: Hamawand, Zeki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing 01.12.2003; Blackwell
• Subjects: Cognitive Grammar; Complements; Connotation; Descriptive studies and applied theories; Event Semantics; Linguistics; Meaning; Semantics and pragmatics; Subject; Syntactic Analysis; English; Completive; Complementizer; Infinitive (construction); Semantics; Conceptual representation; Cognitive grammar; Syntax; Syntactic clause

This paper seeks to substantiate two fundamental claims of Cognitive Grammar (CG) with regard to for‐to complement clauses used in verbal complementation. One claim is that all linguistic elements posited in grammar are ascribed some kind of conceptual import. On the basis of this claim, the paper a...