The 1987 landmark publications by G. Lakoff and M. Johnson made image schema one of the cornerstone concepts of the emerging experientialist paradigm of Cognitive Linguistics, a framework founded upon the rejection of the mind-body...

This book focuses on a special kind of English verb-particle constructions (e.g. finish up, start off, broaden out, cool down, trigger off), which has been labelled "redundant" because, in many contexts, the particles appear superfluous...