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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... speaker's knowledge of grammatical patterns resides in a vast inventory of symbolic assemblies ranging widely along the parameters of schematicity and symbolic complexity. It is a highly structured inventory, in that the assemblies bear ...
... speaker's knowledge of grammatical patterns resides in a vast inventory of symbolic assemblies ranging widely along the parameters of schematicity and symbolic complexity. It is a highly structured inventory, in that the assemblies bear ...
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... speakers should be limited to elements of form and meaning found in actually occurring expressions, or which derive from such elements via the basic psychological phenomena listed in §1.3.1: association, automatization, schematization ...
... speakers should be limited to elements of form and meaning found in actually occurring expressions, or which derive from such elements via the basic psychological phenomena listed in §1.3.1: association, automatization, schematization ...
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... speaker understands an expression (in either a speaking or a listening capacity). It thus incorporates a speaker's apprehension of the circumstances, and exploits the meaning potential they carry, but cannot be identified with those ...
... speaker understands an expression (in either a speaking or a listening capacity). It thus incorporates a speaker's apprehension of the circumstances, and exploits the meaning potential they carry, but cannot be identified with those ...
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... speaker knows and the collective knowledge of a whole society. The former is arguably more basic, since collective knowledge consists in (or at least derives from) the knowledge of individuals.3 For purposes of studying language as part ...
... speaker knows and the collective knowledge of a whole society. The former is arguably more basic, since collective knowledge consists in (or at least derives from) the knowledge of individuals.3 For purposes of studying language as part ...
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... speaker's knowledge of how the expression is conventionally used and understood. This knowledge (surely part of ... speakers and (ii) conventional for members of a speech community. Only a limited array of senses satisfy these criteria ...
... speaker's knowledge of how the expression is conventionally used and understood. This knowledge (surely part of ... speakers and (ii) conventional for members of a speech community. Only a limited array of senses satisfy these criteria ...
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