Láska-neláska, idú zlé časy. Koncesívne štruktúry vo svetle konštrukčnej gramatiky
Love or Not, Bad Times are Coming

Summary/Abstract: The study investigates concessive clauses in Slovak with respect to (i) the status of concessive relation within opposite relations contrast – concession – correction, (ii) the delimitation of concessive and adversative relations, (iii) the delineation of source domains for semantic relation of concession in the process of conceptualization of events. Embedded in the theoretical postulates of cognitive construction grammar, the study employs the domain general processes into explanation of concessive structures (Bybee, 2010, 2013), especially, competence-performance hypothesis (Hawkins, 2004; Horsch, 2020) and the principle of iconicity (Cuypere, 2008). The motivation for usage of contra-iconic is analysed on the basis of pragmatic principles, namely (i) functional sentence perspective and (ii) pragmatic strengthening. When specifying source domains for the concessive relation, three possible motivating factors are taken into account: (i) genetic motivation of concessive conjunctions, (ii) coercion of concessive meaning triggered by context, (iii) ambiguity of conjunctions which can be eliminated by contextual specification. All those factors determine the heterosemy of conjunctions used in concessive clauses.

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