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Concept, Image, And Symbol - The Cognitive Basis Of Grammar

by Ronald W. Langacker

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 This classic research monograph develops and illustrates the theory of linguistic structure known as Cognitive Grammar, and applies it to representative phenomena in English and other languages.
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Grammar And Conceptualization

by Ronald W. Langacker

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 This work documents the developments in the theory of cognitive grammar that occurred in the 1990s. It brings together 12 previous articles which have been substantially revised and integrated. Included are basic theoretical statements, analyses and descriptions of particular phenomena.
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The Lexical Typology Of Semantic Shifts

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 Focuses on semantic shifts and motivation patterns in the lexicon. This book presents current theoretical and methodological trends in the study of semantic shifts and motivational patters based on an abundance of empirical findings across genetically, areally and typologically diverse languages.
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Viewpoint And The Fabric Of Meaning - Form And Use Of Viewpoint Tools Across Languages And Modalities

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 Explores the cross-linguistic diversity, and possibly inconsistency, of the span of linguistic means that signal reported speech and thought. This book also considers the integration of broad linguistic and cognitive strategies for handling mixed points of view.
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Extending The Scope Of Construction Grammar

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 The field of constructionist linguistics is rapidly expanding, as research on a broad variety of language phenomena is increasingly informed by constructionist ideas about grammar. This volume is comprised of 11 original research articles representing several emerging new research directions in construction grammar.
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Linguistic Profiles - Going From Form To Meaning Via Statistics

by Julia Kuznetsova

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 Focusing on a group of statistical methods referred to as "linguistic profiles" that have been developed recently by researchers at the University of Tromso (Norway), this book discusses grammatical, semantic, constructional, collostructional and diachronic profiles.
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Advances In Cognitive Sociolinguistics

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 Brings together studies into the social and conceptual aspects of language-internal variation. This title covers three main areas where Cognitive Linguistics and sociolinguistics meet: lexical and lexical-semantic variation, constructional variation, and research on lectal attitudes and acquisition.
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Variation In Metonymy - Cross-Linguistic, Historical And Lectal Perspectives

by Weiwei Zhang

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 Provides insights into variation in metonymy, focusing especially on changes of naming with respect to a particular concept. This title also includes case studies that delineate how both linguistic and cultural-social factors exert an influence on metonymic conceptualization.
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Metaphor And Metonymy Across Time And Cultures - Perspectives On The Sociohistorical Linguistics Of Figurative Language

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 This volume offers new insights into figurative language and its pervasive role as a factor of linguistic change.
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The Nature Of Rules, Regularities And Units In Language - A Network Model Of The Language System And Of Language Use

by Rolf Kreyer

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 Comprehensive networks of language make use of structures that go beyond the basic associative connections that can be found in the brain. The present study is an attempt to provide an account of language that restricts itself to structures of a neurophysiological kind, i.e. simple nodes, excitatory and inhibitory connections.
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Lexical Bootstrapping - The Role Of Lexis And Semantics In Child Language Development

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 The internal bootstrapps for establishing the grammatical system of a human language build an essential topic in language acquisition research. The discussion of the last 20 years came up with the Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis which assigns lexical development the role of the central bootstrapping process.
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Extending The Scope Of Construction Grammar

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 The field of constructionist linguistics is rapidly expanding, as research on a broad variety of language phenomena is increasingly informed by constructionist ideas about grammar.
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Incipient Productivity - A Construction-Based Approach To Linguistic Creativity

by Arne Zeschel

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 This study presents a usage-based approach to linguistic creativity: combining detailed qualitative with large-scale quantitative analyses of corpus data, it traces the emergence of partial productivity in clusters of conventional collocations.
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Meaning In Mind And Society - A Functional Contribution To The Social Turn In Cognitive Linguistics

by Peter Harder

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 Cognitive Linguistics is becoming increasingly oriented towards the social dimension. This book describes this development and discusses some central issues for the emerging socio-cognitive synthesis. It also suggests principles for an analysis of the relation between conceptual and social processes.
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Abstract Phonology In A Concrete Model - Cognitive Linguistics And The Morphology-Phonology Interface

by Tore Nesset

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 Offers a contribution to phonology and morphology, which have been understudied in cognitive linguistics. This book provides an account of Russian verbs that illustrates the efficacy of Cognitive Grammar as an insightful approach to abstract phonology that uses a restricted set of cognitively motivated theoretical constructs.
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Cognitive Sociolinguistics - Language Variation, Cultural Models, Social Systems

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 Taking a broad view on Cognitive Sociolinguistics, the volume covers three main areas: corpus-based research on language variation, cognitive cultural models, and the ideologies of sociopolitical and socio-economic systems.
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Cognitive Paths Into The Slavic Domain

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 Cognitive Paths into the Slavic Domain presents an overview of recent cognitive linguistic research on Slavic languages. The analyses are couched in a variety of cognitive linguistic frameworks, making the volume a worthwhile read for Slavic and cognitive linguists alike.
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Language In The Context Of Use - Discourse And Cognitive Approaches To Language

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 Explores key convergences between cognitive and discourse approaches to language and language learning, both first and second. This volume places emphasis on the role of language as it is used in everyday interaction and as it reflects everyday cognition.
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Sociocultural Situatedness

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 The papers in this volume introduce and elaborate upon the concept of sociocultural situatedness, understood broadly as the way in which minds and cognitive processes are shaped, both individually and collectively, by their interaction with culturally contextualized structures and practices;
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Space, Time, And The Use Of Language - An Investigation Of Relationships

by Thora Tenbrink

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 How are expressions such as before and after, in front and behind actually used in natural discourse - does their application reflect a conceptual dependency relation? This book addresses this question from a different perspective, drawing together findings from various directions and supplementing them by empirical investigations.
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Words And Other Wonders - Papers On Lexical And Semantic Topics

by Dirk Geeraerts

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 Brings together seventeen articles on lexical and semantic topics by one of the most influential authors in cognitive linguistic lexicology. This book serves as an introduction to the field.
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Cognitive Linguistics - Internal Dynamics And Interdisciplinary Interaction

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 Testifies of the great tolerance of Cognitive Linguists towards internal variety, within itself and towards external interaction with major linguistic subdisciplines. Of interest to scholars, this book provides an overview of the connections between cognition and social, psychological, pragmatic, and discourse-oriented dimensions of language.
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Subjectification - Various Paths To Subjectivity

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 The papers also investigatewhether we have a continuum from highly subjective to more objective, whether subjective need be opposed to objective, or whether subjective may also be understood in contrast to neutral, which is often the case in Traugott's examples of grammaticalization.
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Windows To The Mind - Metaphor, Metonymy And Conceptual Blending

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 Focusing on a wide range of linguistic structures, the articles in this volume explore the explanatory potential of two of the most influential cognitive-linguistic theories, conceptual metaphor and metonymy theory and conceptual blending theory.
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