The study is a theoretical and empirical investigation of the principles behind the selection of different phorical forms. Using a corpus created by the author, it shows how the cognitive activity grade of the referents serve to determine this formal selection. By means of these novel corpus linguistic methods, it is possible for the first time to provide a detailed, tangible example of the effects of these principles in authentic text data.

Markus Frank, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.