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Cognitive Phonology in Construction Grammar

Author : Riitta Välimaa-Blum

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter

Page : 285 pages

File Size : 34,60 MB

Release : 2011-12-22

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 311092059X

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This textbook is an accessible introduction to both English phonology and phonology in general. It analyzes some central phenomena of the sound system of two standard varieties of English, Southern British English and General American. The framework adopted is Cognitive Linguistics and Construction Grammar, and this entails in particular that all the elements of the sound system are tightly interwoven with the meaningful units: morphemes, words, phrases and sentences. The book contains chapters on articulatory phonetics, sounds and meaning, alternation patterns, word stress and intonation. Each chapter ends with an invitation to analyze English and other languages with the tools of Cognitive Linguistics. The book is designed for students as well as teachers of English and linguistics, and while the target readership should already have a background in linguistics, a beginner in phonology will find all the basic concepts clearly defined.



Abstract Phonology in a Concrete Model

Author : Tore Nesset

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter

Page : 265 pages

File Size : 35,54 MB

Release : 2008-09-25

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3110208369

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This book is relevant for phonologists, morphologists, Slavists and cognitive linguists, and addresses two questions: How can the morphology-phonology interface be accommodated in cognitive linguistics? Do morphophonological alternations have a meaning? These questions are explored via a comprehensive analysis of stem alternations in Russian verbs. The analysis is couched in R.W. Langacker's Cognitive Grammar framework, and the book offers comparisons to other varieties of cognitive linguistics, such as Construction Grammar and Conceptual Integration. The proposed analysis is furthermore compared to rule-based and constraint-based approaches to phonology in generative grammar. Without resorting to underlying representations or procedural rules, the Cognitive Linguistics framework facilitates an insightful approach to abstract phonology, offering the important advantage of restrictiveness. Cognitive Grammar provides an analysis of an entire morphophonological system in terms of a parsimonious set of theoretical constructs that all have cognitive motivation. No ad hoc machinery is invoked, and the analysis yields strong empirical predictions. Another advantage is that Cognitive Grammar can identify the meaning of morphophonological alternations. For example, it is argued that stem alternations in Russian verbs conspire to signal non-past meaning. This book is accessible to a broad readership and offers a welcome contribution to phonology and morphology, which have been understudied in cognitive linguistics.



Cognitive Linguistics - A Survey of Linguistic Subfields

Author : Ewa Dąbrowska

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 283 pages

File Size : 16,84 MB

Release : 2019-07-08

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3110623153

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Book Description

The chapters provide comprehensive surveys of the major subfields of Cognitive Linguistics. Apart from phonology, construction grammar and lexical semantics, the areas of language use, language acquisition and literary discourse are comprehensively presented.



The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar

Author : Thomas Hoffmann

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 609 pages

File Size : 48,32 MB

Release : 2013-04-18

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0195396685

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Book Description

This Handbook is the first authoritative reference work solely dedicated to the theory, method, and applications of Construction Grammar, and will be a resource that students and scholars alike can turn to for a representative overview of its many sub-theories and applications.



The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

Author : Dirk Geeraerts

Publisher : OUP USA

Page : 1366 pages

File Size : 23,90 MB

Release : 2010-06-09

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0199738637

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Book Description

With 49 chapters written by experts in the field, this reference volume authoritatively covers cognitive linguistics, from basic concepts and models to practical applications.



The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

Author : Barbara Dancygier

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 1427 pages

File Size : 45,75 MB

Release : 2017-06-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1108146139

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Book Description

The best survey of cognitive linguistics available, this Handbook provides a thorough explanation of its rich methodology, key results, and interdisciplinary context. With in-depth coverage of the research questions, basic concepts, and various theoretical approaches, the Handbook addresses newly emerging subfields and shows their contribution to the discipline. The Handbook introduces fields of study that have become central to cognitive linguistics, such as conceptual mappings and construction grammar. It explains all the main areas of linguistic analysis traditionally expected in a full linguistics framework, and includes fields of study such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics, diachronic studies, and corpus linguistics. Setting linguistic facts within the context of many other disciplines, the Handbook will be welcomed by researchers and students in a broad range of disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, gesture studies, computational linguistics, and multimodal studies.



Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics

Author : René Dirven

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 291 pages

File Size : 10,65 MB

Release : 2004-06-30

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027295417

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Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is designed as a comprehensive introductory text for first and second-year university students of language and linguistics. It provides a chapter on each of the more established areas in linguistics such as lexicology, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology, historical linguistics, and language typology and on some of the newer areas such as cross-cultural semantics, pragmatics, text linguistics and contrastive linguistics. In each of these areas language is explored as part of a cognitive system comprising perception, emotion, categorisation, abstraction processes, and reasoning. All these cognitive abilities may interact with language and be influenced by language. Thus the study of language in a sense becomes the study of the way we express and exchange ideas and thoughts. This Second Revised Edition is corrected, updated and expanded. Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is clearly presented and organized after having been tested in several courses in various countries. Includes exercises (solutions to be found on the Internet).



Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology

Author : William Croft

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 321 pages

File Size : 13,27 MB

Release : 2020-09-25

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 900436353X

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In Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology, William Croft presents a unified theory of linguistic form and meaning that encompasses crosslinguistic diversity, verbalization and language change. Croft begins from construction grammar, a theory of syntax in which all syntactic structures are a pairing of form and meaning. Constructions are posited as basic; syntactic categories are defined by constructions. The internal structure of constructions directly link elements of constructions to the meanings they express, Constructions across languages can be situated in a space of syntactic variation. Grammar emerges from the verbalization of experience. Constructions occur in a probability distribution across the conceptual space of meanings. These probability distributions evolve, leading to grammatical change in language, modeled in an evolutionary framework.



The Construction of Words

Author : Geert Booij

Publisher : Springer

Page : 617 pages

File Size : 41,38 MB

Release : 2018-04-13

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3319743945

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This volume focuses on detailed studies of various aspects of Construction Morphology, and combines theoretical analysis and descriptive detail. It deals with data from several domains of linguistics and contributes to an integration of findings from various subdisciplines of linguistics into a common model of the architecture of language. It presents applications and extensions of the model of Construction Morphology to a wide range of languages. Construction Morphology is one of the theoretical paradigms in present-day morphology. It makes use of concepts of Construction Grammar for the analysis of word formation and inflection. Complex words are seen as constructions, that is, pairs of form and meaning. Morphological patterns are accounted for by construction schemas. These are the recipes for coining new words and word forms, and they motivate the properties of existing complex words. Both schemas and individual words are stored, and hence there is no strict separation of lexicon and grammar. In addition to abstract schemas there are subschemas for subclasses of complex words with specific properties. This architecture of the grammar is in harmony with findings from other empirical domains of linguistics such as language acquisition, word processing, and language change.



Cognitive Linguistics for Linguists

Author : Margaret E. Winters

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 89 pages

File Size : 34,18 MB

Release : 2020-01-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3030336042

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This volume offers an introduction to cognitive linguistics, written by authors who were engaged in the field from its beginnings. It starts by reviewing these early studies and provides an overview of the sources and conceptual underpinnings of the theory. This is followed by a description of how cognitive linguistics has been (and continues to be) applied in all subcomponents of language study. From the point of view of the history of Linguistics, it presents the evolution of the theory over time in a range of directions, including its view of the nature of Language itself, as well as how it is acquired. The final chapter provides an overview of relatively new approaches, in particular those which are provoking a significant challenge to the generative account.