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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... natural, psychologically plausible, and empirically viable. It is nonetheless a decidedly nonstandard view for which ... nature and basic vision. 1.1 Grammar and Life Having spent most of my life investigating grammar, I am quite aware ...
... natural, psychologically plausible, and empirically viable. It is nonetheless a decidedly nonstandard view for which ... nature and basic vision. 1.1 Grammar and Life Having spent most of my life investigating grammar, I am quite aware ...
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... nature of grammar and its relation to other dimensions of linguistic structure. CG's most fundamental claim is that grammar is symbolic in nature. What does this mean, exactly? Letus first define asymbol as the pairing between a ...
... nature of grammar and its relation to other dimensions of linguistic structure. CG's most fundamental claim is that grammar is symbolic in nature. What does this mean, exactly? Letus first define asymbol as the pairing between a ...
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... nature of linguistic structure and how to describe it.3 Cognitive Grammar belongs to the wider movement known as cognitive linguistics, which in turn is part of the functional tradition. Besides CG, important strands of cognitive ...
... nature of linguistic structure and how to describe it.3 Cognitive Grammar belongs to the wider movement known as cognitive linguistics, which in turn is part of the functional tradition. Besides CG, important strands of cognitive ...
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... nature, CG shares with formal approaches the commitment to seeking explicit characterizations of language structure.5 For various reasons our capacity to achieve them is subject to strong inherent limitations. Nevertheless, a functional ...
... nature, CG shares with formal approaches the commitment to seeking explicit characterizations of language structure.5 For various reasons our capacity to achieve them is subject to strong inherent limitations. Nevertheless, a functional ...
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... nature, and in §1.3.4 I elucidate the severe restrictions imposed on what can be postulated. For some reason CG appears especially prone to being misapprehended. Competent scholars have confidently but gratuitously asserted, for example ...
... nature, and in §1.3.4 I elucidate the severe restrictions imposed on what can be postulated. For some reason CG appears especially prone to being misapprehended. Competent scholars have confidently but gratuitously asserted, for example ...
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