Cognitive Grammar: A Basic IntroductionOxford University Press, 2008 M02 4 - 584 páginas 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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... structure. CG's most fundamental claim is that grammar is symbolic in nature. What does ... structures need be invoked for the proper characterization of complex ... component”, distinct from both lexicon and semantics, whose description ...
... structure. CG's most fundamental claim is that grammar is symbolic in nature. What does ... structures need be invoked for the proper characterization of complex ... component”, distinct from both lexicon and semantics, whose description ...
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... structures: semantic, phonological, and symbolic. The pivotal and most ... structure, I include not only sounds but also gestures and orthographic representations ... component elements, though they are not strictly reducible to them. 12 ...
... structures: semantic, phonological, and symbolic. The pivotal and most ... structure, I include not only sounds but also gestures and orthographic representations ... component elements, though they are not strictly reducible to them. 12 ...
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... structures, can we say the same for grammar? Not according to the current orthodoxy, where grammar is sharply ... structure is morphological rather than syntactic. Healthy, for example, is analyzable into the component morphemes health ...
... structures, can we say the same for grammar? Not according to the current orthodoxy, where grammar is sharply ... structure is morphological rather than syntactic. Healthy, for example, is analyzable into the component morphemes health ...
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... elements. A well-known example is X crane X+POSS neck, where X refers schematically ... component of a fluent speaker's conventional linguistic knowledge. Yet ... structures. 1.3.3 Grammar as Symbolic Assemblies We have seen that symbolic ...
... elements. A well-known example is X crane X+POSS neck, where X refers schematically ... component of a fluent speaker's conventional linguistic knowledge. Yet ... structures. 1.3.3 Grammar as Symbolic Assemblies We have seen that symbolic ...
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... elements ascribable to a linguistic system are (i) semantic, phonological, and symbolic structures that actually occur as parts of expressions; (ii) schematizations of permitted structures; and (iii) categorizing relationships between ...
... elements ascribable to a linguistic system are (i) semantic, phonological, and symbolic structures that actually occur as parts of expressions; (ii) schematizations of permitted structures; and (iii) categorizing relationships between ...
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