ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an analysis of agentive and experiential constructions based on differences that can be explained by the notion of subjectivity, a property of cognition that underlies all language use. We describe these constructions; introduce the concept of subjectivity; present the morpho-syntactic relations between these two constructions (demonstrating a productive structural opposition akin to voice in the grammar of Korean); present the distributional effects that are brought about by the expression of different degrees of subjectivity in interactional discourse and in narrative; and describe the cognitive folk models that underly the two constructions.
