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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... level of organization. One does not deny the existence of water molecules by analyzing them as consisting in a particular configuration of hydrogen and oxygen atoms. 1.2.2 What Is CG Really Like? Language is shaped and constrained by ...
... level of organization. One does not deny the existence of water molecules by analyzing them as consisting in a particular configuration of hydrogen and oxygen atoms. 1.2.2 What Is CG Really Like? Language is shaped and constrained by ...
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... level of understanding. One could choose, for example, to represent the concept TRIANGLE in either a propositional ... organization to be represented in a format that is both user-friendly and explicit enough to serve as a basis for ...
... level of understanding. One could choose, for example, to represent the concept TRIANGLE in either a propositional ... organization to be represented in a format that is both user-friendly and explicit enough to serve as a basis for ...
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... level) and urges that one avoid imposing dichotomous organization where there is actually a gradation. The principle of naturalness maintains that language—when properly analyzed—is by and large reasonable and understandable in view of ...
... level) and urges that one avoid imposing dichotomous organization where there is actually a gradation. The principle of naturalness maintains that language—when properly analyzed—is by and large reasonable and understandable in view of ...
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... organization directly reflects the basic semiological function of language—namely, permitting meanings to be ... level symbolic structure, represented by the outer box.11 These lower-level and higher-level structures constitute a ...
... organization directly reflects the basic semiological function of language—namely, permitting meanings to be ... level symbolic structure, represented by the outer box.11 These lower-level and higher-level structures constitute a ...
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... levels of organization, assemblies having any degree of symbolic complexity can be formed. A morpheme is definable as an expression whose symbolic complexity is zero, i.e. it is not at all analyzable into smaller symbolic components. A ...
... levels of organization, assemblies having any degree of symbolic complexity can be formed. A morpheme is definable as an expression whose symbolic complexity is zero, i.e. it is not at all analyzable into smaller symbolic components. A ...
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