ABSTRACT
Mappings in Conceptual Systems, Grammar, and Meaning Construction
Reflecting basic features of neural organization and mental processing, a central and repeated finding of cognitive linguistics has been the need to posit "mappings" or "correspondences" between different structures or different domains of experience. Included are mappings between the elements of different "mental spaces", as well as correspondences between the "source domain" and the "target domain" of a metaphor. Correspondence is also cited in "cognitive grammar" as being pivotal to grammatical constructions.
