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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... evoke the other. A simple lexical item, such as skunk, is thus symbolic because it resides in the pairing between a meaning and a phonological shape. Grammar, of course, is concerned with how such elements combine to form complex ...
... evoke the other. A simple lexical item, such as skunk, is thus symbolic because it resides in the pairing between a meaning and a phonological shape. Grammar, of course, is concerned with how such elements combine to form complex ...
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... evoke the other. I describe a symbolic structure as being bipolar: S is its semantic pole, and P its phonological pole. In formulaic representations, a slash is used to indicate a symbolic relationship. The morpheme cat can thus be ...
... evoke the other. I describe a symbolic structure as being bipolar: S is its semantic pole, and P its phonological pole. In formulaic representations, a slash is used to indicate a symbolic relationship. The morpheme cat can thus be ...
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... evoke dynamic conceptualizations in which we mentally scan along the line of trees in one direction or the other. These opposing ways of building up to the full conception, through processing time, result in subtly different mental ...
... evoke dynamic conceptualizations in which we mentally scan along the line of trees in one direction or the other. These opposing ways of building up to the full conception, through processing time, result in subtly different mental ...
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... evoked as linguistic meanings are nontransparent: they do not simply reflect or correspond to the world in a wholly straightforward manner, nor are they derivable in any direct or automatic way from objective circumstances. Instead, a ...
... evoked as linguistic meanings are nontransparent: they do not simply reflect or correspond to the world in a wholly straightforward manner, nor are they derivable in any direct or automatic way from objective circumstances. Instead, a ...
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... evoked both variably and probabilistically. Even at this level we find a gradation between linguistic and ... evoke it metaphorically. Furthermore, the statement that this fictive ostrich/ person refuses to countenance the existence of ...
... evoked both variably and probabilistically. Even at this level we find a gradation between linguistic and ... evoke it metaphorically. Furthermore, the statement that this fictive ostrich/ person refuses to countenance the existence of ...
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