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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... diagrams must have startled and dismayed the readers of Language. The most comprehensive statement of the theory resides in the hulking two-volume mass called Foundations of Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 1987, 1991). More accessible—or ...
... diagrams must have startled and dismayed the readers of Language. The most comprehensive statement of the theory resides in the hulking two-volume mass called Foundations of Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 1987, 1991). More accessible—or ...
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... Diagrams On occasion I resort to diagrams. Of course, those occasions are rather frequent, and critics will no doubt aver that I use them excessively. It is certainly true that works in CG (including this one) are often replete with ...
... Diagrams On occasion I resort to diagrams. Of course, those occasions are rather frequent, and critics will no doubt aver that I use them excessively. It is certainly true that works in CG (including this one) are often replete with ...
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... diagrams drawn by formal syntacticians (not to mention phonologists). The use of diagrams is equally prevalent in the “hard” sciences admired by linguistic theorists. Indeed, we are witnessing the emergence of “scientific visualization ...
... diagrams drawn by formal syntacticians (not to mention phonologists). The use of diagrams is equally prevalent in the “hard” sciences admired by linguistic theorists. Indeed, we are witnessing the emergence of “scientific visualization ...
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... diagrams representing expressions of even modest size prove quite complex and unwieldy (e.g. fig. 7.13). Moreover, reading such a diagram takes some time and effort, especially when the notational conventions have not yet been fully ...
... diagrams representing expressions of even modest size prove quite complex and unwieldy (e.g. fig. 7.13). Moreover, reading such a diagram takes some time and effort, especially when the notational conventions have not yet been fully ...
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... diagrams employed in CG are heuristically effective and not inappropriate, given our present level of understanding. One could choose, for example, to represent the concept TRIANGLE in either a propositional or a diagrammatic format, as ...
... diagrams employed in CG are heuristically effective and not inappropriate, given our present level of understanding. One could choose, for example, to represent the concept TRIANGLE in either a propositional or a diagrammatic format, as ...
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