The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 15. In the past decade, Cognitive Linguistics has developed into one of the most dynamic and attractive frameworks within theoretical and descriptive linguistics The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics is a major new reference that presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of Cognitive Linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied. | 110 DAVID TUGGy Figure . Blends two ships sailing from San Francisco to Boston a century and a half apart are blended into a race between one ship and the ghost of the Figure gives an example of an inadvertent phrasal blend and figure adapted from Kemmer 2003 which gives an excellent discussion of schemas as tools for analyzing lexical blends represents the graphicophonological pole of a purposeful lexical blend. In each case the blend clearly fits the pattern schema of which is itself composed of schemas. Sweetser 1999 and others . Fauconnier 1999 have stressed that the mechanisms of blending must often be invoked for the analysis even of such everyday grammatical structures as Adjective-Noun constructions. Having these structures already analyzed in terms of schematicity relationships among components and composite structure makes this sort of proposal much more natural and obviously right than it would be under other theoretical models. It is probably feasible to claim that all cases of blends consist of appropriately configured arrays of schematic and partially schematic relationships among cognitive structures elaborating or differing in various ways from the prototype characterized in figure . Such a claim does not of course obviate the necessity of specifying more fully what kinds of correspondences figure are involved in the partially schematic mappings which are so important to the blending or of explicating what kinds of emergent structures show up in the blended spaces and how they do so. But at the very least it seems clear that schematicity relationships are crucially involved in the mechanism of blending. SCHEMATICITy 111 5. Summary The foregoing discussion is far from exhaustive there are other ways schematicity relations function in language and many other subtleties in the functions I have discussed. It should be clear however that a. relationships of schematicity are pervasive in language b. recognition
