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Cognitive grammar : a basic introduction

This introductory text draws together and refines the descriptive and theoretical aspects of cognitive grammar. 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
eBook, English, 2008
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008
1 online resource (x, 562 pages) : illustrations
9780198044192, 9780199868209, 0198044194, 0199868204
193700788
Orientation
Conceptual semantics
Construal
Grammatical classes
Major subclasses
Constructions : general characterization
Constructions : descriptive factors
Rules and restrictions
Grounding
Nominal structure
Clause structure
Complex sentences
Discourse
Engaging the world
English