Cognitive Iconicity in Eventuality and Syntactic Structures in the English Language

事件被分析为时间概念，由开始、核心和尾部组成，沿着Freed 1979和Worst 1988所建议的路线。在事件结构和乡村视角方面仔细审查和澄清了关键的例子。词尾蕴含的层级可以从词汇层面、动词短语层面和句子结构层面三个层面来观察。本文从认知和体现的角度指出和解释了动名词和派生名词中的转喻延伸不是从核心到始发的延伸，而是从核心到尾巴的延伸。最终，这些例子被归入更广泛的转喻视角。各种词汇扩展，包括命名动词、词汇级变体(例如例如，喋喋不休、喋喋不休、咆哮、蹒跚)，以及短语级别的变化(例如。应该从转喻的角度来解释转喻，转喻在词汇扩展机制中起着至关重要的作用。

Events are analysed as temporal notions consisting of an onset, a nucleus and a coda along the lines suggested by Freed 1979 and Worst 1988. Crucial examples have been carefully examined and clarified in terms of event structures and the rusultative perspectives. The gradience of implication of a coda can be observed in three levels, lexical levels, verb phrase levels, and sentence structure levels. The fact that metonymical extensions observed in gerundive and derived nominals tend not to be a nucleus-to-onset type of extension but to be a nucleus-to-coda type of extension, is pointed out and explicated from the cognitive and embodiment points of view. Eventually these examples are subsumed under to a more wide perspective of metonymy. Various lexical extensions including denominal verbs, lexical-level variations (ex. say, babble, chatter, snarl, falter), and phrase-level variations (ex. make one's way to the door, pushing one' way to the door, laugh his way to the bank, murder his way to the top) should be explicated from the metonymic point of view, which safely leads to the conclusion that it is metonymy that plays a crucial role in the mechanism of lexical extension.