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This article looks into the interface of temporality and quantification. Drawing on the principles of Cognitive Linguistics, we use experimental as well as corpus methods to provide evidence on how the conceptual organisation and linguistic coding of content can play a role in meaning construction. With that broad agenda in mind, a major objective is to shed light on the construct of conventionalisation. For that purpose, construal coding variants are examined with a focus on nominal phrases that express time quantities. The examination involves two construal types (termed “cumulative” and “fractional”) that differ primarily in their prominence configurations, across three granularity levels of time conceptualisation. Our main finding – that the fractional and cumulative constructions are asymmetrically conventionalised – is contextualised through a qualitative analysis of naturally-occurring data to identify additional language use patterns and offer explanatory hypotheses.

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Temporal-magnitudinal construal coding
Review of Cognitive Linguistics. Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association 16, 128 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00006.dec
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Keyword(s): construal; conventionalisation; distributional analysis; experimental data; language use; prominence; qualitative analysis; temporal expressions

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