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This volume makes accessible a substantial range of recent research in Cognitive Grammar. From disparate sources, it brings together a dozen innovative papers, revised and integrated to form a coherent whole. This work continues the ongoing program of progressively articulating the theoretical framework and showing its descriptive application to varied grammatical phenomena. A number of major topics are examined in depth through multiple chapters viewing them from different perspectives: grammatical constructions (their general nature, their metonymic basis, their role in grammaticization), nominal grounding (quantifiers, possessives, impersonal it), clausal grounding (its relation to nominal grounding, an epistemic account of tense, a systemic view of the English auxiliary), the "control cycle" (an abstract cognitive model with many linguistic manifestations), finite clauses (their internal structure and external grammar), and complex sentences (complementation, subordination, coordination). In each case the presentation builds from fundamentals and introduces the background needed for comprehension. At the same time, by bringing fresh approaches and new descriptive insights to classic problems, it represents a significant advance in understanding grammar and indicates future directions of theory and research in the Cognitive Grammar framework. The book is of great interest to students and practitioners of cognitive linguistics and to scholars in related areas.

Psycholinguistics --- Grammar --- Cognitive grammar --- Cognitive grammar. --- Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- 801.56 --- #KVHA:Taalkunde --- #KVHA:Cognitieve grammatica --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Cognitive linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Cognitive Grammar. --- Semantics. --- Syntax.

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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 accomodates 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 termsof 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 contruction of our mental world.

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Linguistics --- #KVHA:Linguistiek --- 800 --- Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek --- 800 Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek

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Cognitive grammar --- Cognitive linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Psycholinguistics --- Grammar --- Cognitive grammar. --- Grammaire cognitive

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This research monograph develops and illustrates an innovative theory of linguistic structure, called ""cognitive grammar"", and applies it to representative phenomena in English and other languages. Cognitive grammar views language as an intergral fact of cognition and claims that grammatical structure cannot be understood or revealingly described independently of semantic considerations. It argues that grammar forms a continuum with the lexicon and is reducible to symbolic relationships (i.e. form-meaning pairings), and consequently that all valid grammatical constructs have some kind of con

Psycholinguistics --- Grammar --- Cognitive grammar --- Grammaire cognitive --- Cognitive grammar. --- Cognitive linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Grammar. --- Language and languages. --- Linguistique --- Acqui 2006 --- #KVHA:Cognitieve grammatica --- #KVHA:Linguistiek --- Cognitive Linguistics. --- LINGUISTIQUE --- COGNITION