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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972947503321

Autore

Langacker Ronald W

Titolo

Cognitive grammar : a basic introduction / / Ronald W. Langacker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

0198044194

9780198044192

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

x, 562 p. : ill

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Cognitive grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 541-550) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Part I: Preliminaries -- 1 Orientation -- 1.1 Grammar and Life -- 1.2 The Nature of the Beast -- 1.3 Grammar as Symbolization -- 2 Conceptual Semantics -- 2.1 Meaning and Semantic Representations -- 2.2 Conceptual Content -- 3 Construal -- 3.1 Specificity -- 3.2 Focusing -- 3.3 Prominence -- 3.4 Perspective -- 3.5 Evidence for Semantic Claims -- Part II: Fundamentals -- 4 Grammatical Classes -- 4.1 Are Conceptual Characterizations Conceivable? -- 4.2 Nouns and Verbs -- 4.3 Classes of Relational Expressions -- 5 Major Subclasses -- 5.1 Count and Mass Nouns -- 5.2 Perfective and Imperfective Verbs -- 6 Constructions: General Characterization -- 6.1 Symbolic Assemblies -- 6.2 Constructional Schemas -- 6.3 Unipolar vs. Bipolar Organization -- 7 Constructions: Descriptive Factors -- 7.1 Correspondences -- 7.2 Profile Determinance -- 7.3 Elaboration -- 7.4 Constituency -- 8 Rules and Restrictions -- 8.1 Networks and Schemas -- 8.2 Assessing Conventionality -- 8.3 Networks of Constructions -- 8.4 Regularity -- Part III: Structures -- 9 Grounding -- 9.1 Subjective and Objective Construal -- 9.2 Type vs. Instance -- 9.3 Nominal Grounding -- 9.4 Clausal Grounding -- 10 Nominal Structure -- 10.1 Structure and Function -- 10.2 Noun Modifiers -- 10.3 Classification and Quantification -- 10.4 Inflection and Agreement -- 11 Clause Structure -- 11.1 Global Organization -- 11.2 Subject and Object -- 11.3 Clause Types -- 11.4 Complex Verbs -- 12 Complex Sentences -- 12.1 Ordination: Co- and Sub- -- 12.2 Clausal Connections -- 12.3 Finite



Complements -- Part IV: Frontiers -- 13 Discourse -- 13.1 The Basis of Language Structure -- 13.2 Conceptual Substrate -- 13.3 Discourse Genres -- 13.4 Structure Building -- 14 Engaging the World -- 14.1 Dynamicity -- 14.2 Fictivity -- 14.3 Simulation and Subjectification -- 14.4 Mind, Meaning, and Grammar.

References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

This lucid and authoritative introduction to Cognitive Grammar presents the theory and its rationale in careful, systematic detail. Its application to central domains of language structure makes a compelling case that grammar is inherently meaningul. The book holds great interest for linguists, linguistics students, and professionals in related disciplines.