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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... invoked for the proper characterization of complex expressions and the patterns they instantiate. More specifically: lexicon and grammar form a gradation consisting solely in assemblies of symbolic structures. An immediate consequence ...
... invoked for the proper characterization of complex expressions and the patterns they instantiate. More specifically: lexicon and grammar form a gradation consisting solely in assemblies of symbolic structures. An immediate consequence ...
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... invoked in other frameworks, CG is quite conservative and highly restrictive in what it allows the analyst to posit. Any flights of fancy cognitive grammarians might be prone to are seriously constrained by the content requirement ...
... invoked in other frameworks, CG is quite conservative and highly restrictive in what it allows the analyst to posit. Any flights of fancy cognitive grammarians might be prone to are seriously constrained by the content requirement ...
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... invoked for the purpose of specifying the circumstance that is being negated. (5) (a) My brother doesn't have a car. (b) A kitten likes to chase a piece of string. Likewise, the kitten and the piece of string mentioned in (5)(b) are ...
... invoked for the purpose of specifying the circumstance that is being negated. (5) (a) My brother doesn't have a car. (b) A kitten likes to chase a piece of string. Likewise, the kitten and the piece of string mentioned in (5)(b) are ...
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... invoked as a virtual entity, conjured up just for purposes of indicating what might have been the case but actually is not. The example is not at all unusual. When producing or understanding linguistic expressions, we engage in ...
... invoked as a virtual entity, conjured up just for purposes of indicating what might have been the case but actually is not. The example is not at all unusual. When producing or understanding linguistic expressions, we engage in ...
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... invoked not only as a source of danger but also, more saliently, as a standard of comparison. I doubt that a conceptualization excluding it would actually occur or be recognizable as what the utterance means. An expression's meaning ...
... invoked not only as a source of danger but also, more saliently, as a standard of comparison. I doubt that a conceptualization excluding it would actually occur or be recognizable as what the utterance means. An expression's meaning ...
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