Topics in cognitive linguistics / edited by Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rudzka-Ostyn, Brygida.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 50.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (720 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia [Pa.] : J. Benjamins, 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume presents new developments in cognitive grammar and explores its descriptive and explanatory potential with respect to a wide range of language phenomena. These include the formation and use of locationals, causative constructions, adjectival and nominal expressions of oriented space, morphological layering, tense and aspect, and extended uses of verbal predicates. There is also a section on the affinities between cognitive grammar an early linguistic theories, both ancient and modern.

Contents:

TOPICS IN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; PART I. TOWARD A COHERENT AND COMPREHENSIVE LINGUISTIC THEORY; An Overview of Cognitive Grammar; A View of Linguistic Semantics; The Nature of Grammatical Valence; A Usage-Based Model; PART II. ASPECTS OF A MULTIFACETED RESEARCH PROGRAM; The Relation of Grammar to Cognition; Where Does Prototypicality Come From?; The Natural Category MEDIUM: An Alternative to Selection Restrictionsand Similar Constructs; Spatial Expressions and the Plasticity of Meaning

Contrasting Prepositional Categories: English and ItalianThe Mapping of Elements of Cognitive Space onto Grammatical Relations: An Example from Russian Verbal Prefixation; Conventionalization of Cora Locationals; The Conceptualisation of Vertical Space in English: The Case of Tall; Length, Width, and Potential Passing; On Bounding in Ik; A Discourse Perspective on Tense and Aspect in Standard Modern Greek and English; Semantic Extensions into the Domain of Verbal Communication; Spatial Metaphor in German Causative Constructions; Náhuatl Causative/Applicatives in Cognitive Grammar

PART III. AHISTORICAL PERSPECTIVEGrammatical Categories and Human Conceptualization: Aristotle and the Modistae; Cognitive Grammar and the History of Lexical Semantics; REFERENCES; Subject Index; The series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [679]-694) and index.

ISBN:

90-272-8619-1

1-283-09288-3

9786613092885

OCLC:

713010261