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 faculty”), language is viewed as an integral facet of cognition. As for CG in particular, care is taken to ... space of possibilities, many reaches of which are sparsely populated. The second level of the pyramid deals with the “ ...
... mental faculty”), language is viewed as an integral facet of cognition. As for CG in particular, care is taken to ... space of possibilities, many reaches of which are sparsely populated. The second level of the pyramid deals with the “ ...
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... mental experiences and different linguistic meanings. Dynamicity bears on ... space, motion, and force. Image schemas are seen as basic, “preconceptual ... mental activity) but are merely intended to evoke them and suggest their nature ...
... mental experiences and different linguistic meanings. Dynamicity bears on ... space, motion, and force. Image schemas are seen as basic, “preconceptual ... mental activity) but are merely intended to evoke them and suggest their nature ...
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... mental experience is reflected more directly in a complex image than in a complex formula. Also, images seem ... space, the human body, the human face, a whole and its parts, a physical container and its contents, seeing something ...
... mental experience is reflected more directly in a complex image than in a complex formula. Also, images seem ... space, the human body, the human face, a whole and its parts, a physical container and its contents, seeing something ...
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... mental orphans, which serve so effectively in human communication only ... space construction, and the invocation of fictive entities. Calling me a ... mental spaces representing a belief and an attitude. It ascribes to the blended ...
... mental orphans, which serve so effectively in human communication only ... space construction, and the invocation of fictive entities. Calling me a ... mental spaces representing a belief and an attitude. It ascribes to the blended ...
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... mental space construction). All of this provides the setting for lexical 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 ...
... mental space construction). All of this provides the setting for lexical 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 ...
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