Screen LibraryCognitive foundations of linguistic usage patterns : empirical studies /
There is an increasing awareness in linguistics that linguistic patterns can be explained with recourse to general cognitive processes. The contributions collected in this volume pursue such a usage-based cognitive linguistic approach by presenting empirical investigations of lexical and grammatical...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ;Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2010] ©2010 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Applications of cognitive linguistics [acl] ;
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| Summary: |
There is an increasing awareness in linguistics that linguistic patterns can be explained with recourse to general cognitive processes. The contributions collected in this volume pursue such a usage-based cognitive linguistic approach by presenting empirical investigations of lexical and grammatical patterns and probing into their implications for the relations between language structure, use and cognition. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (287pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783110216035 |
| Index Number: | P301 |
| CLC: | H05 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Lexical patterns -- A computational model of the ambiguity-vagueness spectrum -- Questions of life and death: Denotational boundary disputes -- -- Breakthroughs and disasters: The politics and ethics of metaphor use in the media -- Synonyme, lexical fields, and grammatical constructions. A study in usage-based cognitive semantics -- Collocation, anchoring, and the mental lexicon an ontogenetic perspective -- Part II: Grammatical patterns -- The mean lean grammar machine meets the human mind: Empirical investigations of the mental status of linguistic rules -- Motivating grammatical and conceptual gender agreement in German -- Computed or entrenched? The French imparfait de politesse -- Valency constructions and clause constructions or how, if at all, valency grammarians might sneeze the foam off the cappuccino -- What exactly is the question-assertion distinction based on? An exploration in experimental speech act theory -- Backmatter |