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The Hungarian root es- in language and cognition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 December 2015

ZOLTÁN KÖVECSES
ZOLTÁN KÖVECSES*
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ELTE, Budapest
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Abstract

My goal in the paper is to examine the significance of a root morpheme in language and cognition in three interconnected areas; in the creation of words; in meaning making; and in conceptual structure. I use the Hungarian root es-, meaning ‘fall’, for demonstration – a root that occurs in over 100 Hungarian words. First, I examine the issue of the conceptual–semantic relationship between the various word meanings in which this root can be found. Second, I explore the potential cognitive status of the root in Hungarian, and possibly in other languages (such as English). Third, I compare the meanings in which es- occurs in Hungarian to the nearest counterparts of these words in English. Fourth, I investigate the potential role of the root es- in organizing conceptual structure.

Keywords

rootsconceptual structureimage schemasmetaphormetonymy
Type
Research Article
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Language and Cognition , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 2017 , pp. 121 - 155
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Copyright © UK Cognitive Linguistics Association 2015 

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