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Topic: Structure within Morphemic Meaning (Talmy 2021)

Speaker/Presenter: Dr. Li Jinmei

Chair: Fuyin Thomas Li, Editor-in-chief, Cognitive Semantics

Respondent: Leonard Talmy

Time: 9:00am-11:00am, 17 Feb, 2021, Beijing

Venue: 腾讯会议（ID：552 176 728）

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Structure within Morphemic Meaning

Leonard Talmy

Abstract

The entire conceptual content represented by a single morpheme—its plenary meaning—is in general both copious and structured. This structuring consists of both the arrangement of its content and the pattern of attention over that arrangement. With respect to the arrangement of its content, a morpheme’s plenary meaning can be divided into a core meaning and an associated meaning. In turn, its associated meaning can be subdivided into five sectors: the holistic, infrastructure, collateral, disposition, and attitude sectors. And with respect to its pattern of attention, eight specific attentional factors and three general attentional principles are cited. The main attentional factor is that a morpheme’s core meaning is generally more salient than its associated meaning or any of the sectors therein. But another attentional factor holds that the attitude sector, especially its expletivity type, can challenge or exceed the core meaning in salience.

In this two-hour talk, Dr. Li Jinmei will elaborate on the details of the latest research entitled “Structure within Morphemic Meaning” by Professor Talmy. Professor Talmy himself will address the questions from the audience afterwards.

Introduction to the speaker/presenter

Li Jinmei is an associate professor of linguistics at Tianjin Normal University. She acquired her PhD in Philosophy from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and PhD in linguistics from Beihang University. Her interest covers cognitive semantics, applied cognitive linguistics, causation and causatives,event theory, etc. 

李金妹，天津师范大学外国语学院副教授，硕士生导师，阿姆斯特丹自由大学哲学博士，北京航空航天大学语言学博士。曾分别在英国奇切斯特大学、华中师范大学、武汉理工大学任访问学者。主要从事认知语义学、应用认知语言学，因果关系表征和事件研究。主持湖北省高等学校哲学社会科学研究重大项目等各类课题五项，参与美国国家自然科学基金一项、国家社科基金项目三项，获得湖北省黄石市政府第九届社会科学优秀成果二等奖，先后在《解放军外国语学院学报》、《西安外国语大学学报》等刊物上发表学术论文多篇。

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