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Title Theory and data in cognitive linguistics / edited by Nikolas Gisborne, University of Edinburgh ; Willem Hollmann, Lancaster University
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations
Series Benjamins current topics, 1874-0081 ; v. 67
Benjamins current topics ; v. 67.
Contents Machine generated contents note: Theory and data in cognitive linguistics / Willem B. Hollmann -- Frequencies, probabilities, and association measures in usage-/exemplar-based linguistics: Some necessary clarifications / Stefan Th. Gries -- Reconstructing constructional semantics: The dative subject construction in Old Norse-Icelandic, Latin, Ancient Greek, Old Russian and Old Lithuanian / Barbara McGillivray -- historical development of the it-cleft: A comparison of two different approaches / Amanda L. Patten -- Theory and data in diachronic Construction Grammar: The case of the what with construction / Graeme Trousdale -- semantics of definite expressions and the grammaticalization of the / Nikolas Gisborne -- Cognitive explanations, distributional evidence, and diachrony / Sonia Cristofaro -- Word classes: Towards a more comprehensive usage-based account / Willem B. Hollmann -- Smashing new results on aspectual framing: How people talk about car accidents / Stephanie Huette
Summary How do people describe events they have witnessed? What role does linguistic aspect play in this process? To provide answers to these questions, we conducted an experiment on aspectual framing. In our task, people were asked to view videotaped vehicular accidents and to describe what happened (perfective framing) or what was happening (imperfective framing). Our analyses of speech and gesture in retellings show that the form of aspect used in the question differentially influenced the way people conceptualized and described actions. Questions framed with imperfective aspect resulted in more mo
Notes "The genesis of this volume was a workshop at the Societas Linguistica Europaea conference in Vilnius in 2010, organised by Hollmann and Gisborne, on the ques-tion of what specific contribution cognitive linguistics has made to the gathering and analysis of linguistic data."
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Subject Cognitive grammar -- Data processing -- Congresses
Semantics -- Data processing -- Congresses
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Semantics -- Data processing
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Gisborne, Nikolas, 1966- editor.
Hollmann, Willem, editor.
ISBN 9789027269607
9027269602
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9781322111377