Browsing by Author "Szwedek, Aleksander"
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Item English resultant, affected and eventive objects in Polish grammar(Adam Mickiewicz University, 1998) Szwedek, AleksanderItem Focus on focus. A review article of "Aspects of the Grammar of Focus: A Minimalist View" by Przemysław Tajsner(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2010) Szwedek, AleksanderItem Functional sentence perspective: Towards a greater precision?(Adam Mickiewicz University, 1984) Szwedek, AleksanderItem Iconicity of nouns and verbs in the information structure of the sentence(Adam Mickiewicz University, 1997) Szwedek, AleksanderItem The English finite verb system(Adam Mickiewicz University, 1971) Szwedek, AleksanderItem The language that is not. A reply to Professor Tajsner(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2010) Szwedek, AleksanderItem The subjunctive in English(Adam Mickiewicz University, 1972) Szwedek, AleksanderItem Thematic Roles in Image Schemas: A Missing Link Between Mind and Language(2022) Szwedek, AleksanderAs early as 1968, Fillmore suggested that deep cases could be sets “of universal, presumably innate, concepts” human beings form to describe reality. Langacker’s (1991) role archetypes highlight the “primal status and nonlinguistic origin” of Thematic roles. I argue that Thematic roles have their “nonlinguistic” origin in image schemas and link the image schemas with language structures. The thesis is based on my description of the object schema (Szwedek, 2018), the definition of the image schema (Szwedek, 2019), and major works on Thematic roles. The object schema is fundamental in that all physical objects are experienceable by the senses (Szwedek, 2011, 2018). In contrast to relational schemas, it is also conceptually independent, while “[r]elations are conceptually dependent, i.e. one cannot conceptualize interconnections without conceptualizing the entities they interconnect” (Langacker, 1987). I posit that Thematic roles are a link between image schemas (mind) and language, constituting a stable scaffolding for various syntactic structures.