Cognitive Grammar A Basic Introduction

Name: Cognitive Grammar A Basic Introduction
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ISBN: 9780195331967

ISBN-10: 0195331966

ISBN-13: 9780195331967

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ronald W. Langacker

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This book fills a longstanding 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…

Book details

List price: $69.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/4/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 584
Size: 9.13" wide x 6.22" long x 1.19" tall
Weight: 1.958
Language: English




Preliminaries



Orientation



Grammar and Life



The Nature of the Beast



Grammar as Symbolization



Conceptual Semantics



Meaning and Semantic Representations



Conceptual Content



Construal



Specificity



Focusing



Prominence



Perspective



Evidence for Semantic Claims



Fundamentals



Grammatical Classes



Are Conceptual Characterizations Conceivable?



Nouns and Verbs



Classes of Relational Expressions



Major Subclasses



Count and Mass Nouns



Perfective and Imperfective Verbs



Constructions: General Characterization



Symbolic Assemblies



Constructional Schemas



Unipolar vs. Bipolar Organization



Constructions: Descriptive Factors



Correspondences



Profile Determinance



Elaboration



Constituency



Rules and Restrictions



Networks and Schemas



Assessing Conventionality



Networks of Constructions



Regularity



Structures



Grounding



Subjective and Objective Construal



Type vs. Instance



Nominal Grounding



Clausal Grounding



Nominal Structure



Structure and Function



Noun Modifiers



Classification and Quantification



Inflection and Agreement



Clause Structure



Global Organization



Subject and Object



Clause Types



Complex Verbs



Complex Sentences



Ordination: Co- and Sub-



Clausal Connections



Finite Complements



Frontiers



Discourse



The Basis of Language Structure



Conceptual Substrate



Discourse Genres



Structure Building



Engaging the World



Dynamicity



Fictivity



Simulation and Subjectification



Mind, Meaning, and Grammar


References


Index