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Correspondence

المؤلف:  Vyvyan Evans and Melanie Green

المصدر:  Cognitive Linguistics an Introduction

الجزء والصفحة:  C17-P584

2026-02-21

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Correspondence

The term ‘correspondence’ relates to the idea that the component structures within a composite structure or construction share some common aspects of their structure. This sharing or correspondence arises from the ways in which the TR-LM organisation of the component structures interacts. For example, consider the preposition phrase under the bed from Figure 17.1. While the NP the bed is a nominal predication, the preposition under is a relational predication, which means that it only becomes fully meaningful when it relates two entities which are represented as part of its meaning in terms of a schematic TR and LM. There is a correspondence between the LM of under and the profile of the bed. The LM of under is a schematic representation of some THING in SPACE. The profile of the sofa ‘fills in’ or elaborates this schematic LM and the preposition phrase as a whole inherits its specificity or content meaning from the noun phrase. In the same way, a noun elaborates the schematic TR of an attributive adjective, as we saw earlier in our discussion of the NP pink fish.