Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics as an Empirical Science

Laura A. Janda (PhD 1984) is Professor of Russian Linguistics at UiT the Arctic University of Norway. Her special areas of interest are the factors associated with the grammatical categories of case and aspect and their investigation using corpus data.

• ContentsNote on Supplementary MaterialPrefaceAbout the Author1 From Cognitive Linguistics to Cultural Linguistics: How Cognitive Categories Reflect Culture2 Conceptual Overlap and the Illusion of Semantic Emptiness3 Metaphor in Grammar: Conceptualization of Time4 Metonymy in Grammar: Word Formation5 Constructional Profiles: What Constructions Tell Us about the Meanings of Words6 Grammatical Profiles: What Inflectional Forms Tell Us about Lexicon and Grammar7 Semantic Maps: Do They Reveal a Universal Underlying Conceptual Space?8 Pedagogical Applications of Research into Embodied Grammar9 Linguistic Concepts as Prototype-Based Categories: Reexamining Allomorphy10 The Paradigm as a Radial CategoryAbout the Series EditorWebsites for Cognitive Linguistics and CIFCL Speakers