Cognitive foundations of language introduces the reader to the abilities and processes in which research in Cognitive Linguistics is grounded. The book looks at key concepts, such as embodiment, salience, entrenchment, construal, categorization, and collaborative communication, and discusses their genesis and implications for cognitive linguistic research.
Cognitive Linguistics: Foundations, Scope, and Methodology
The volume presents an up-to-date collection of methodologically sensitive contributions providing mainly enthusiastic, at times also critical support for the cognitive-linguistic enterprise.
perhaps most intensively, the human genome project. In a recent report “Realising the potential of genomic medicine”, Paul Martin and Michael Morrison (2006) have urged readers to rethink what has so often been called the genomic ...
... Todd 207–9, 210 Smith, Linda B. 92–93 Omar, M. 300 Soto, Pilar 324 Sperber, Dan 100 Pardo, Elly 306 Stassen, Leon 319 Parisi, Domenico 329 Steen, Gerard J. 199 Perlmutter, David M. 229 Pine, Julian 323, 324 Pinker, Stephen 294, 295, ...
The book looks at key concepts, such as embodiment, salience, entrenchment, construal, categorization, and collaborative communication, and discusses their genesis and implications for cognitive linguistic research.
Probing the core and origins of language, a linguistics scholar shares his insights into the complex relationship between language, perception, and the human brain.
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 ...
Institute of African Studies University of Cologne Bernd Heine Professor of Linguistics ... My thanks are due in particular to Jiirgen Broschart, Joan Bybee, Ulrike Claudi, Bernard Comrie, Karen Ebert, Suzanne Fleischman, Orin Gensler, ...
This volume enlists more than two dozen experts in the fields of linguistics, psycholinguistics, neurology, and cognitive psychology in providing a realistic picture of the psychological and linguistic foundations of language.
... indefinite article (a knob; *a gold); only mass nouns occur with certain quantifiers (a lot of gold; *a lot of knob); and only mass nouns occur as full noun phrases without any sort of determiner (He found gold; * He found knob).