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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... notions like “noun”, “subject”, or “past participle”) must in some way be meaningful. This is not at all how grammar is viewed in modern linguistic theory. Received wisdom—repeated in every linguistics textbook—holds that notions like ...
... notions like “noun”, “subject”, or “past participle”) must in some way be meaningful. This is not at all how grammar is viewed in modern linguistic theory. Received wisdom—repeated in every linguistics textbook—holds that notions like ...
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... notions like “noun” and “subject” are universal and fundamental to grammar, it would seem both dubious and implausible to deny them a conceptual raison d'être. From a naive perspective (i.e. for those who lack linguistic training), it ...
... notions like “noun” and “subject” are universal and fundamental to grammar, it would seem both dubious and implausible to deny them a conceptual raison d'être. From a naive perspective (i.e. for those who lack linguistic training), it ...
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... notions. On the contrary, the essential constructs proposed for semantic description (e.g. various kinds of prominence) are applicable to any cognitive domain and independent of any particular mode of presentation. Another ...
... notions. On the contrary, the essential constructs proposed for semantic description (e.g. various kinds of prominence) are applicable to any cognitive domain and independent of any particular mode of presentation. Another ...
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... notion that absolute predictability ought to be the norm, so that anything which fails to achieve it is held to be of little interest; (10) the usual practice of formulating questions in terms of mutually exclusive alternatives.8 This ...
... notion that absolute predictability ought to be the norm, so that anything which fails to achieve it is held to be of little interest; (10) the usual practice of formulating questions in terms of mutually exclusive alternatives.8 This ...
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... notion that lexicon, morphology, and syntax form a continuum fully reducible to assemblies of symbolic structures. If valid, this notion represents a fundamental conceptual unification. 1.3.1 Symbolic Complexity Semantic structures are ...
... notion that lexicon, morphology, and syntax form a continuum fully reducible to assemblies of symbolic structures. If valid, this notion represents a fundamental conceptual unification. 1.3.1 Symbolic Complexity Semantic structures are ...
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