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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... constitute—the world we live in and talk about. It is a world of extraordinary richness, extending far beyond the physical reality it is grounded in. Conceptual semantic description is thus a major source of insight about our mental ...
... constitute—the world we live in and talk about. It is a world of extraordinary richness, extending far beyond the physical reality it is grounded in. Conceptual semantic description is thus a major source of insight about our mental ...
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... constitute a symbolic assembly. Of course,. figure 1.2 10For most linguistic purposes, we are more concerned with the cognitive representation of phonological structures than with their actual physical implementation. It is thus coherent ...
... constitute a symbolic assembly. Of course,. figure 1.2 10For most linguistic purposes, we are more concerned with the cognitive representation of phonological structures than with their actual physical implementation. It is thus coherent ...
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... constitute a symbolic assembly. Of course, a higher-level symbolic structure is itself capable of entering into a combinatory relationship, producing a more elaborate symbolic assembly, as shown in diagram (c). We can say that a series ...
... constitute a symbolic assembly. Of course, a higher-level symbolic structure is itself capable of entering into a combinatory relationship, producing a more elaborate symbolic assembly, as shown in diagram (c). We can say that a series ...
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... constitutes an elaboration or specific instantiation. Still more abstractly, ring can mean 'circular object ... constitute a category, equivalent in having the same phonological realization. If structure A belongs to a category ...
... constitutes an elaboration or specific instantiation. Still more abstractly, ring can mean 'circular object ... constitute a category, equivalent in having the same phonological realization. If structure A belongs to a category ...
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... constitute an essential—perhaps even the preponderant— component of a fluent speaker's conventional linguistic knowledge. Yet standard linguistic theory hardly recognizes their existence, let alone accommodate them in any ...
... constitute an essential—perhaps even the preponderant— component of a fluent speaker's conventional linguistic knowledge. Yet standard linguistic theory hardly recognizes their existence, let alone accommodate them in any ...
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