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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... interpretation of experience with respect to previously existing structures. A category is a set of elements judged equivalent for some purpose; for example, the alternate senses of a lexical item constitute a category, equivalent in ...
... interpretation of experience with respect to previously existing structures. A category is a set of elements judged equivalent for some purpose; for example, the alternate senses of a lexical item constitute a category, equivalent in ...
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... interpretations of an item's abstract semantic value. I would counter by denying that a single abstract meaning enables one to predict, in full and precise detail, the actual range of specific senses in which a lexical item is ...
... interpretations of an item's abstract semantic value. I would counter by denying that a single abstract meaning enables one to predict, in full and precise detail, the actual range of specific senses in which a lexical item is ...
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... interpretation). This is crucial for the claim of modularity made at a higher level, with respect to a language overall: that it is a well-delimited, self-contained system sharply distinct from other facets of cognition.9 Though ...
... interpretation). This is crucial for the claim of modularity made at a higher level, with respect to a language overall: that it is a well-delimited, self-contained system sharply distinct from other facets of cognition.9 Though ...
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... interpretation and semantic composition. Contrary to the traditional modular view, these do not proceed autonomously or in a vacuum. A lexical item does not have a fully determinate meaning. Instead, its semantic value resides in ...
... interpretation and semantic composition. Contrary to the traditional modular view, these do not proceed autonomously or in a vacuum. A lexical item does not have a fully determinate meaning. Instead, its semantic value resides in ...
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... interpretation. Since the conceptualizations that function as linguistic meanings are neither distinct from these nor well delimited, semantic structure cannot be exhaustively described. Nor is semantics fully compositional, if only ...
... interpretation. Since the conceptualizations that function as linguistic meanings are neither distinct from these nor well delimited, semantic structure cannot be exhaustively described. Nor is semantics fully compositional, if only ...
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