Langacker Investigations in Cognitive Grammar

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-11-021436-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 42, 410 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]ISSN

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 ), 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.

Zielgruppe

Professional Linguists, Graduate Students in Linguistics, Scholar

Autoren/Hrsg.

Langacker, Ronald W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;9
3;Chapter 1. Constructions in Cognitive Grammar;15
4;Chapter 2. Metonymy in grammar;54
5;Chapter 3. A constructional approach to grammaticization;74
6;Chapter 4. Possession, location, and existence;95
7;Chapter 5. On the subject of impersonals;123
8;Chapter 6. Enunciating the parallelism of nominal and clausal grounding;162
9;Chapter 7. The English present: Temporal coincidence vs. epistemic immediacy;199
10;Chapter 8. A functional account of the English auxiliary;233
11;Chapter 9. Aspects of the grammar of finite clauses;273
12;Chapter 10. Finite complements in English;304
13;Chapter 11. Subordination in Cognitive Grammar;341
14;Chapter 12. The conceptual basis of coordination;355
15;Backmatter;389

Über Autor(innen)

Ronald W. Langacker, University of California, San Diego, USA.