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Author Langacker, Ronald W

Title Grammar and Conceptualization
Published Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (444 pages)
Series Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] ; v. 14
Cognitive Linguistics Research CLR
Contents Preface; Chapter 1: Clause structure; 1. Basics of cognitive grammar; 2. Application to clause structure; 3. Conclusion; Chapter 2: Evidence for descriptive constructs; 1. "Invisible" semantic constructs; 2. Scope; 3. Search domain; 4. Active zone; 5. Setting vs. participant; 6. Semantics and grammar; Chapter 3: The meaning of of; 1. The question of meaningfulness; 2. Complement vs. modifier; 3. Nominal periphrasis; 4. Conclusion; Chapter 4: A dynamic usage-based model; 1. The usage-based conception; 2. Psychological phenomena; 3. Processing interpretation; 4. Basic linguistic problems
5. Structural applications6. A final issue; Chapter 5: Conceptual grouping and constituency; 1. Constituency and grammatical relations; 2. Assemblies vs. building blocks; 3. Conceptual groupings; 4. Constituents as emergent entities; 5. Groupings and symbolic linkages; 6. Conclusion; Chapter 6: Reference point constructions; 1. Basic cognitive assumptions; 2. Reference points; 3. Possessives; 4. Additional reference point phenomena; 5. Conclusion; Chapter 7: Viewing in cognition and grammar; 1. Viewing; 2. Construal; 3. Complement vs. modifier; 4. English tense and aspect; 5. Subordination
6. Anaphora7. Conclusion; Chapter 8: Generic constructions; 1. Higher-order entities; 2. Plural generics; 3. Quantifier constructions; Chapter 9: Grouping and pronominal anaphora; 1. Interaction, grammar, and discourse; 2. Spaces, planes, and groupings; 3. Antecedence and grouping; 4. Antecedents and reference points; 5. Conclusion; Chapter 10: Subjectification and grammaticization; 1. Subjectification, attenuation, and transparency; 2. Grammaticization; 3. Conclusion; Chapter 11: Raising and transparency; 1. Previous accounts; 2. Logical grammatical relations; 3. Complex constructions
Summary Grammar and Conceptualization documents some major developments in the theory of cognitive grammar during the last decade. By further articulating the framework and showing its application to numerous domains of linguistic structure, this book substantiates the claim that lexicon, morphology, and syntax form a gradation consisting of assemblies of symbolic structures (form-meaning pairings)
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Subject Cognitive grammar.
Concepts.
Cognitive grammar
Concepts
Languages & Literatures.
Philology & Linguistics.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783110800524
3110800527
3111767884
9783111767888