Zooming in and out of semantics: proximal–distal construal levels and prominence hierarchies

We argue that the “Prominence Hierarchy” within linguistics can be subsumed under the “Construal Level Theory” within psychology and that a wide spectrum of grammatical phenomena, ranging from case assignment to number, definiteness, verbal agreement, voice, direct/inverse morphology, and syntactic...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Psychology
Main Authors:	Marit Lobben, Bruno Laeng
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2024-09-01
Subjects:	prominence hierarchies construal level theory (CLT) split ergativity differential object marking (DOM) nominal classification culture-language interpretive matrix
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1371538/full