none 10.1075/hcp.27.09mat John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 67886844 1419948 1419929 202507022134000029 10.1075 2025-07-02T15:33:23Z 2014-03-24T12:28:16Z 12 Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use 1387-6724 10.1075/hcp https://benjamins.com/ catalog/hcp Klaus-Uwe Panther University of Hamburg https://ror.org/00g30e956 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7555-3334 Günter Radden University of Hamburg https://ror.org/00g30e956 Language structure and use are largely shaped by cognitive processes such as categorizing, framing, inferencing, associative (metonymic), and analogical (metaphorical) thinking, and – mediated through cognition – by bodily experience, emotion, perception, action, social/communicative interaction, culture, and the internal ecology of the linguistic system itself. The contributors to the present volume demonstrate how these language-independent factors motivate grammar and the lexicon in a variety of languages such as English, German, French, Italian, Hungarian, Russian, Croatian, Japanese, and Korean. The volume will be of great interest to students and scholars in cognitive and functional linguistics. 27 6 29 2011 6 22 2011 9789027223814 9789027287021 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/hcp.27 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027287021 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027287021.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/hcp.27/html Teenie Matlock University of California, Merced https://ror.org/00d9ah105 Aspect expresses information about how events unfold in time. In English, imperfective aspect is known to widen the temporal scope of the event described, but little is known about how such imperfective descriptions are processed or what motivates their use. This chapter investigates the conceptual impact of aspect, especially imperfective descriptions of past events, and argues that it shapes our understanding of events, and that its use and function is motivated by our everyday experience of perceiving and simulating events. 6 29 2011 6 22 2011 133 148 10.1075/hcp.27.09mat https://benjamins.com/catalog/hcp.27.09mat https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/hcp.27.09mat/html