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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... object, source-path-goal, and container-content. An imagistic approach is no less capable than a propositional one of precisely describing complex structures in terms of simpler conceptual components. It is arguably figure 2.1 ...
... object, source-path-goal, and container-content. An imagistic approach is no less capable than a propositional one of precisely describing complex structures in terms of simpler conceptual components. It is arguably figure 2.1 ...
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... object, an object in a location, an object moving through space, the human body, the human face, a whole and its parts, a physical container and its contents, seeing something, holding something, handing. CONCEPTUAL SEMANTICS 33.
... object, an object in a location, an object moving through space, the human body, the human face, a whole and its parts, a physical container and its contents, seeing something, holding something, handing. CONCEPTUAL SEMANTICS 33.
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... object is!), they are basic in the sense that they are readily apprehended as coherent conceptual gestalts at an early developmental stage. I do not regard this three-way distinction as either clear-cut or the only useful classification ...
... object is!), they are basic in the sense that they are readily apprehended as coherent conceptual gestalts at an early developmental stage. I do not regard this three-way distinction as either clear-cut or the only useful classification ...
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... objects, the noun category prototype. 5. It figures subsequently in the apprehension of the many other kinds of entities also coded by nouns. I view the ability to perceive a discrete physical object, like a ball, as a lowlevel ...
... objects, the noun category prototype. 5. It figures subsequently in the apprehension of the many other kinds of entities also coded by nouns. I view the ability to perceive a discrete physical object, like a ball, as a lowlevel ...
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... object moving from source to goal along a spatial path. Along with the container-content schema, this is then ... objects of contemplation, rather than merely supporting spatial and temporal conceptualization. Similarly, the metaphorical ...
... object moving from source to goal along a spatial path. Along with the container-content schema, this is then ... objects of contemplation, rather than merely supporting spatial and temporal conceptualization. Similarly, the metaphorical ...
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