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 conceptual import.
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"Langacker [...] has been one of the most productive and visible of the cognitive linguistic theorists, and one of the most influential in bringing linguistics as a discipline into line with the compelling work of other cognitive theorists in social science fields." Eve Sweetser and Patricia Hunt in Semiotica; "The most coherent and detailed body of research in 'cognitive linguistics'." H. Stephen Straight and Matthew T. Davidson in International Studies in Philosophy
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Despite the diversity of contemporary linguistic theory, certain fundamental views are widely accepted without serious question.* Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
topmost schema, inherent subpart, overall trajector, profiled process, processual predication, substantial cognitive salience, processual profile, complex atemporal relation, figure within the profiled relationship, unprofiled facet, same composite structure, grounding predications, schematic trajector, composite structure level, trajector occupies, composite semantic structure, phonological pole, different compositional paths, directed potency, specific process profiled, perfective process, relational landmark, profile determinant, finite clause profiles, constructional schema Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Syntactic Structures (2nd Edition) by Noam Chomsky on page 289, and Back Matter
- Beginning English Grammar by Samuel Jay Keyser in Back Matter
- The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason by Mark Johnson in Back Matter
- The Modularity of Mind by Jerry A. Fodor in Back Matter
- Language and Spatial Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Prepositions in English (Studies in Natural Language Processing) by Annette Herskovits in Back Matter
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- Issues in Cognitive Linguistics: 1993 Proceedings of the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Cognitive Linguistic Research) by Leon De Stadler on 8 pages
- The Construal of Space in Language and Thought (Cognitive Linguistic Research) by Rene Dirven on 6 pages
- Cognitive Linguistics, Foundations, Scope, and Methodology (Cognitive Linguistics Research) by Theodorus Albertus Johann Janssen on 4 pages
- Grounding: The Epistemic of Deixis and Reference (Cognitive Linguistic Research) by Frank Brisard on 4 pages
- Ethnosyntax: Explorations in Grammar and Culture (Oxford Linguistics) by N. J. Enfield on page 25, page 92, and page 158
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