出版社：Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic
摘要：This paper deals with the middle construction in English in the framework of cognitive grammar. Introducing fundamental aspects of our cognitive abilities gives rise to a finer-grained grammatical theory, which is capable of articulating the characteristics and accounting for the limited distribution of this construction in our usage. The analysis here utilizes the graphic representation of the action chain , one of the basic cognitive models. It reveals that the motivation for employing this construction for an expressive purpose principally resides in how we mentally construe and structure a conceived event. Suggested eventually is the significance of considering psychological factors for precise description of a grammatical phenomenon.
