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Topics in Cognitive Linguistics

Inbunden, Engelska, 1988

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This volume presents new developments in cognitive grammar and explores its descriptive and explanatory potential with respect to a wide range of language phenomena. These include the formation and use of locationals, causative constructions, adjectival and nominal expressions of oriented space, morphological layering, tense and aspect, and extended uses of verbal predicates. There is also a section on the affinities between cognitive grammar an early linguistic theories, both ancient and modern.

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Utgivningsdatum1988-01-01
Mått164 x 245 x undefined mm
Vikt1 430 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCurrent Issues in Linguistic Theory
Antal sidor704
FörlagJohn Benjamins Publishing Co
ISBN9789027235442

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1. Preface; 2. I. Toward a coherent and comprehensive linguistic theory; 3. An overview of cognitive grammar (by Langacker, Ronald W.); 4. A view of linguistic semantics (by Langacker, Ronald W.); 5. The nature of grammatical valence (by Langacker, Ronald W.); 6. A usage-based model (by Langacker, Ronald W.); 7. II. Aspects of a multifaceted research program; 8. The relation of grammar to cognition (by Talmy, Leonard); 9. Where does prototypicality come from? (by Geeraerts, Dirk); 10. The natural category MEDIUM: An alternative to selection restrictions and similar constructs (by Hawkins, Bruce); 11. Spatial expressions and the plasticity of meaning (by Herskovits, Annette); 12. Contrasting prepositional categories: English and Italian (by Taylor, John R.); 13. The mapping of elements of cognitive space onto grammatical relations: An example from Russian verbal prefixation (by Janda, Laura A.); 14. Conventionalization of cora locationals (by Casad, Eugene H.); 15. The conceptualisation of vertical space in English: The case of tall (by Dirven, Rene); 16. Length, width, and potential passing (by Vandeloise, Claude); 17. On bounding in Lk (by Serzisko, Fritz); 18. A discourse perspective on tense and aspect in standard modern Greek and English (by Paprotte, Wolf); 19. Semantic extensions into the domain of verbal communication (by Rudzka-Ostyn, Brygida); 20. Spatial metaphor in German causative constructions (by King, Robert Thomas); 21. Nahuatl causative/applicatives in cognitive grammar (by Tuggy, David); 22. III. A historical perspective; 23. Grammatical categories and human conceptualization: Aristotle and the modistae (by Swiggers, Pierre); 24. Cognitive grammar and the history of lexical semantics (by Geeraerts, Dirk); 25. References; 26. Subject index

Topics in Cognitive Linguistics is an important publication. Cognitive grammar appears to be an alternative linguistic theory, which has achieved a certain degree of internal coherence and has a wide descriptive and explanatory potential when applied in the study of various language phenomena, across many natural languages.This book marks a significant stage in the evolution of cognitive grammar, which in spite of its considerable achievements both theoretical and applicative remains open to modifications and is likely to expand in scope and depth.The volume has been very carefully devised and co-ordinated, and expertly edited by Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn.