Ten lectures on the basics of cognitive grammar /

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, gra...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Langacker, Ronald W. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Series:Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics Ser.
Subjects:
Cognitive grammar.
Grammaire cognitive.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Cognitive grammar
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Conceptual semantics
  • Dynamicity, fictivity and scanning
  • Symbolic grammar and constructions
  • Constructional integration and grammaticization
  • Topic, subject, and possessor
  • Double subject constructions
  • Locatives
  • Possession, location, and existence
  • Voice
  • Impersonals.

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