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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... occur in language, we implicitly indicate what tends not to occur. More precisely, by specifying the location and strength of attractors in the space of structural possibilities, we inherently make predictions about the relative ...
... occur in language, we implicitly indicate what tends not to occur. More precisely, by specifying the location and strength of attractors in the space of structural possibilities, we inherently make predictions about the relative ...
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... occur than to also determine and represent their meanings. An autonomous form of grammatical description is more easily extended to a new language or a. 8 I call this the exclusionary fallacy (FCG1: §1.1.6). It is exemplified by the ...
... occur than to also determine and represent their meanings. An autonomous form of grammatical description is more easily extended to a new language or a. 8 I call this the exclusionary fallacy (FCG1: §1.1.6). It is exemplified by the ...
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... occur with vowels contributing other lexical and grammatical information. In CG terms, the roots are phonologically schematic in regard to the placement and identity of the supporting vowels. Many multiword lexical units contain ...
... occur with vowels contributing other lexical and grammatical information. In CG terms, the roots are phonologically schematic in regard to the placement and identity of the supporting vowels. Many multiword lexical units contain ...
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... occur as parts of expressions; (ii) schematizations of permitted structures; and (iii) categorizing relationships between permitted structures. The thrust of the content requirement is that the linguistic knowledge we ascribe to ...
... occur as parts of expressions; (ii) schematizations of permitted structures; and (iii) categorizing relationships between permitted structures. The thrust of the content requirement is that the linguistic knowledge we ascribe to ...
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... occurring expressions, this requirement rules out derivations from underlying structures with divergent properties.22 ... occur. I cannot yet claim to have demonstrated that negative statements are avoidable altogether, that descriptions ...
... occurring expressions, this requirement rules out derivations from underlying structures with divergent properties.22 ... occur. I cannot yet claim to have demonstrated that negative statements are avoidable altogether, that descriptions ...
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