Ten Lectures on the Basics of Cognitive Grammar

Approx. XI, 367 Pp. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34744-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 769 g

Reihe: Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics

These lectures provide a basic introduction to the linguistic theory known as Cognitive Grammar. It is argued that a conceptualist semantics, well motivated in its own terms, provides the basis for a symbolic view of grammar. Consisting in the structuring and symbolization of conceptual content, grammar is inherently meaningful, and basic grammatical notions have conceptual characterizations. An account is given of grammatical categories, markings, and constructions. A number of central topics are examined in detail, including subjects, possessives, locatives, voice, and impersonals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Langacker, Ronald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note on Supplementary Material
Preface

1 Conceptual Semantics

2 Dynamicity, Fictivity and Scanning

3 Symbolic Grammar and Constructions

4 Constructional Integration and Grammaticization

5 Topic, Subject, and Possessor

6 Double Subject Constructions

7 Locatives

8 Possession, Location, and Existence

9 Voice

10 Impersonals

Publications by Ronald Langacker
Important Resources for Cognitive Linguistics

Über Autor(innen)

Ronald Langacker, Ph.D. (1966), University of Illinois, was Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego, until his retirement in 2003. He has published extensively in cognitive linguists and formulated the theory known as Cognitive Grammar.