Investigations in Cognitive Grammar

Ronald W. Langacker

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2009

Investigations in Cognitive Grammar

Ronald W. Langacker

Volume 42 in the series Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214369

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This volume makes accessible a substantial range of recent research in Cognitive Grammar. From disparate sources, it brings together a dozen innovative papers, revised and integrated to form a coherent whole. This work continues the ongoing program of progressively articulating the theoretical framework and showing its descriptive application to varied grammatical phenomena.

A number of major topics are examined in depth through multiple chapters viewing them from different perspectives: grammatical constructions (their general nature, their metonymic basis, their role in grammaticization), nominal grounding (quantifiers, possessives, impersonal it), clausal grounding (its relation to nominal grounding, an epistemic account of tense, a systemic view of the English auxiliary), the "control cycle" (an abstract cognitive model with many linguistic manifestations), finite clauses (their internal structure and external grammar), and complex sentences (complementation, subordination, coordination). In each case the presentation builds from fundamentals and introduces the background needed for comprehension. At the same time, by bringing fresh approaches and new descriptive insights to classic problems, it represents a significant advance in understanding grammar and indicates future directions of theory and research in the Cognitive Grammar framework.

The book is of great interest to students and practitioners of cognitive linguistics and to scholars in related areas.

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Ronald W. Langacker, University of California, San Diego, USA.

Reviews

"Ronald W. Langacker is universally acclaimed as one of the founding fathers of the cognitive linguistics movement. His pioneering efforts towards developing a meaning-oriented, usage-based theory of grammar have given cognitive linguistics many of its key concepts, and his theory of Cognitive Grammar is not only one of the cornerstones of cognitive linguistics, it is also a magnificent achievement in its own right."

Dirk Geeraerts, January 2009

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
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Chapter 1. Constructions in Cognitive Grammar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2. Metonymy in grammar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
Chapter 3. A constructional approach to grammaticization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
Chapter 4. Possession, location, and existence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Chapter 5. On the subject of impersonals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Chapter 6. Enunciating the parallelism of nominal and clausal grounding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
Chapter 7. The English present: Temporal coincidence vs. epistemic immediacy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Chapter 8. A functional account of the English auxiliary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Chapter 9. Aspects of the grammar of finite clauses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Chapter 10. Finite complements in English Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	290
Chapter 11. Subordination in Cognitive Grammar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
Chapter 12. The conceptual basis of coordination Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375

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