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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... simply the establishing of psychological connections with the potential to influence subsequent processing. It has numerous manifestations in CG. Here we need only recall the association between a semantic and a phonological structure ...
... simply the establishing of psychological connections with the potential to influence subsequent processing. It has numerous manifestations in CG. Here we need only recall the association between a semantic and a phonological structure ...
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... simply define lexicon as the set of fixed expressions in a language. Becoming a fluent speaker involves learning an enormous inventory of expressions larger than words, representing usual ways of conveying certain notions. These ...
... simply define lexicon as the set of fixed expressions in a language. Becoming a fluent speaker involves learning an enormous inventory of expressions larger than words, representing usual ways of conveying certain notions. These ...
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... simply mean the characterization of some pattern.17 In CG, rules take the form of schemas: they are abstract templates obtained by reinforcing the commonality inherent in a set of instances. Since grammatical rules are patterns in the ...
... simply mean the characterization of some pattern.17 In CG, rules take the form of schemas: they are abstract templates obtained by reinforcing the commonality inherent in a set of instances. Since grammatical rules are patterns in the ...
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... simply wrong. Conversely, a revealing account of communicative interaction needs to acknowledge and characterize the conceptualizations employed in discourse. The cognitive and interactive approaches are therefore quite compatible ...
... simply wrong. Conversely, a revealing account of communicative interaction needs to acknowledge and characterize the conceptualizations employed in discourse. The cognitive and interactive approaches are therefore quite compatible ...
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... simply untenable. Its polar opposite—the extreme version of localism, putting everything of relevance inside a single mind—is likewise untenable. But provided that some subtle but crucial distinctions are made, I find it reasonable to ...
... simply untenable. Its polar opposite—the extreme version of localism, putting everything of relevance inside a single mind—is likewise untenable. But provided that some subtle but crucial distinctions are made, I find it reasonable to ...
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