Personification in Language and Thought - Conceptual models, lexicogrammatical structures, and distributional patterns in Hungarian

This monograph offers the first comprehensive account of personification in Hungarian, a subtle yet pervasive feature of everyday cognition and language. Combining cognitive linguistics with corpus-based and corpus-driven analyses, it reveals how personifying meaning is conceptually structured, grammatically realized, and distributed across registers. The study introduces refined methodological tools and applies them to a richly annotated dataset, bridging qualitative insight and quantitative precision. By focusing on an underexplored figure of speech in a less-resourced language, the book advances both theoretical understanding and empirical research, setting a new standard for the study of figurative language.