TY - BOOK AU - Katarzyna Góra PY - 2022 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 2364-7558 SN - 9783631881149 TI - Predicates of Gratification in English and Polish T2 - A Semantic-Syntactic Perspective DO - 10.3726/b19810 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1249558 N2 - This monograph presents a contrastive-corpus analysis of the semantic category of gratification. It takes as a case study the verb reward and its various forms in Polish and in English, as prototypical of the semantics of gratification. The study, set predominantly in the framework of semantic syntax, and drawing from the theory of valence and frame semantics, adopts a corpus-driven and usage-based approach to language analysis. By exploring the syntactic realization and distribution of arguments opened by the predicates of gratification in the two languages, the book offers new insights into language representation in English and Polish, and addresses the combinatoricity of human thought and cognitive mechanisms reflected in the lexicalization patterns of the situation of rewarding. KW - predicate REWARD, contrastive studies, nagradzać/nagrodzić, corpus analysis, semantic-syntax, semantic category LA - English ER -