From temporality to dynamicity

Abstract The chapter investigates within the cognitive linguistic framework of verb semantics how the specific nature of various event structures (e.g., manipulation of objects, dynamic motion, perception) contributes to the construal of temporal meaning in the elaboration of present (continuous) participle constructions in Hungarian. We assume that verb temporality still prevails in the participial construction, however, the dynamicity of the processual representation and the scope of construal (and its conceptual resolution, i.e., acuity) undergo some changes. These changes are closely related to a reconstrual of schematic figures with respect to the base verb’s semantic structure. The paper investigates reconstrual in terms of Langacker’s control cycle model with a small-scale qualitative corpus analysis. The material of the study consists of occurrences of particular finite verbs and participles in the Hungarian National Corpus.