Cognitive Grammar: A Basic IntroductionOxford University Press, 04.02.2008 - 584 Seiten This book fills a long standing need for a basic introduction to Cognitive Grammar that is current, authoritative, comprehensive, and approachable. It presents a synthesis that draws together and refines the descriptive and theoretical notions developed in this framework over the course of three decades. In a unified manner, it accommodates both the conceptual and the social-interactive basis of linguistic structure, as well as the need for both functional explanation and explicit structural description. Starting with the fundamentals, essential aspects of the theory are systematically laid out with concrete illustrations and careful discussion of their rationale. Among the topics surveyed are conceptual semantics, grammatical classes, grammatical constructions, the lexicon-grammar continuum characterized as assemblies of symbolic structures (form-meaning pairings), and the usage-based account of productivity, restrictions, and well-formedness. The theory's central claim - that grammar is inherently meaningful - is thereby shown to be viable. The framework is further elucidated through application to nominal structure, clause structure, and complex sentences. These are examined in broad perspective, with exemplification from English and numerous other languages. In line with the theory's general principles, they are discussed not only in terms of their structural characterization, but also their conceptual value and functional motivation. Other matters explored include discourse, the temporal dimension of language structure, and what grammar reveals about cognitive processes and the construction of our mental world. |
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... Characterizations Conceivable? 93 4.2 Nouns and Verbs 103 4.3 Classes of Relational Expressions 112 5 Major Subclasses 128 5.1 Count and Mass Nouns 128 5.2 Perfective and Imperfective Verbs 147 6 Constructions: General Characterization ...
... Characterizations Conceivable? 93 4.2 Nouns and Verbs 103 4.3 Classes of Relational Expressions 112 5 Major Subclasses 128 5.1 Count and Mass Nouns 128 5.2 Perfective and Imperfective Verbs 147 6 Constructions: General Characterization ...
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... characterization of complex expressions and the patterns they instantiate. More specifically: lexicon and grammar form a gradation consisting solely in assemblies of symbolic structures. An immediate consequence of this position is that ...
... characterization of complex expressions and the patterns they instantiate. More specifically: lexicon and grammar form a gradation consisting solely in assemblies of symbolic structures. An immediate consequence of this position is that ...
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... characterization that is both linguistically revealing and psychologically plausible (see ch. 4). It is easier just to list grammatical markers and state where they occur than to also determine and represent their meanings. An ...
... characterization that is both linguistically revealing and psychologically plausible (see ch. 4). It is easier just to list grammatical markers and state where they occur than to also determine and represent their meanings. An ...
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... characterization. From taxonomic hierarchies like those in (5), it is evident that lexical items run the full gamut ... characterizations also vary along this parameter. For example, the English past-tense morpheme has the regular ...
... characterization. From taxonomic hierarchies like those in (5), it is evident that lexical items run the full gamut ... characterizations also vary along this parameter. For example, the English past-tense morpheme has the regular ...
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... characterization of some pattern.17 In CG, rules take the form of schemas: they are abstract templates obtained by reinforcing the commonality inherent in a set of instances. Since grammatical rules are patterns in the formation of ...
... characterization of some pattern.17 In CG, rules take the form of schemas: they are abstract templates obtained by reinforcing the commonality inherent in a set of instances. Since grammatical rules are patterns in the formation of ...
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