Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Section 1: Cognitive approaches to the English tense system
  • Cognitive linguistics, language pedagogy, and the English present tense
  • Pretend play: trial ground for the simple present
  • The relation between experience, conceptual structure and meaning: non-temporal uses of tense and language teaching
  • Section 2: Facets of prototypes in grammatical constructions
  • Grammatical constructions and their discourse origins: prototype or family resemblance?
  • Transitivity parameter and prominence typology: a cross-linguistic studySection 3: Neurocognitive and cognitive issues of language acquisition in general
  • Learning syntax â€? a neurocognitive approach
  • Conceptual primes in early language development
  • No preposition required. The role of prepositions for the understanding of spatial relations in language acquisition
  • The â€?Graded Salience Hypothesisâ€? in second language acquisition
  • Subject Index