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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... mental processes in semantics and grammar. More reasonable is the ... access to the exterior; it is thus asocial and acontextual, contemplation ... mental developmentis stimulated and guided by social interaction, the skills and knowledge ...
... mental processes in semantics and grammar. More reasonable is the ... access to the exterior; it is thus asocial and acontextual, contemplation ... mental developmentis stimulated and guided by social interaction, the skills and knowledge ...
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... mental access implies a corresponding seriality in the processing that constitutes it. In mentally reciting the alphabet, for instance, we run through the letters in sequence, each prompting the next. It seems evident that this ordered ...
... mental access implies a corresponding seriality in the processing that constitutes it. In mentally reciting the alphabet, for instance, we run through the letters in sequence, each prompting the next. It seems evident that this ordered ...
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... access to domains of knowledge—not exclusively linguistic—that are evoked ... mental orphans, which serve so effectively in human communication only ... mental space construction, and the invocation of fictive entities. Calling me a ...
... access to domains of knowledge—not exclusively linguistic—that are evoked ... mental orphans, which serve so effectively in human communication only ... mental space construction, and the invocation of fictive entities. Calling me a ...
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... mental space construction). All of this provides the setting for lexical interpretation and semantic composition ... access (some well-trodden, others less so) to open-ended domains of knowledge. Precisely what it means on a given ...
... mental space construction). All of this provides the setting for lexical interpretation and semantic composition ... access (some well-trodden, others less so) to open-ended domains of knowledge. Precisely what it means on a given ...
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