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A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of English Existential Sentences
LUO Shengnan
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DOI:10.17265//1539-8072/2021.11.003
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST), Shanghai, China
Due to the particularity of structure and the universality of use, English existential sentences have always been one of the topics concerned by linguists. Within the framework of cognitive linguistics, this paper uses a variety of theoretical perspectives (iconicity principle; grammaticalization; Prototype Category Theory) to make a multi-dimensional analysis of English existential sentences, including the generation, development and meaning expansion of English existential sentences. Cognitive linguistics contributes to the deepening of the study of English existential sentences, and the focus of the study shifts from the surface level to the deeper level.
English existential sentences, iconicity principle, cognitive linguistics
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