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"Cognitive English Grammar" is designed to be used as a textbook in
courses of English and general linguistics. It introduces the
reader to cognitive linguistic theory and shows that Cognitive
Grammar helps us to gain a better understanding of the grammar of
English. The notions of motivation and meaningfulness are central
to the approach adopted in the book. In four major parts comprising
12 chapters, "Cognitive English Grammar "integrates recent
cognitive approaches into one coherent model, allowing the analysis
of the most central constructions of English. Part I presents the
cognitive framework: conceptual and linguistic categories, their
combination in situations, the cognitive operations applied to
them, and the organisation of conceptual structures into linguistic
constructions. Part II deals with the category of things and their
linguistic structuring as nouns and noun phrases. It shows how
things are grounded in reality by means of reference, quantified by
set and scalar quantifiers, and qualified by modifiers. Part III
describes situations as temporal units of various layers:
internally, as types of situations; and externally, as located
relative to the time of speech and grounded in reality or
potentiality. Part IV looks at situations as relational units and
their structuring as sentences. Its two chapters are devoted to
event schemas and space and metaphorical extensions of
space."Cognitive English Grammar" offers a wealth of linguistic
data and explanations. The didactic quality is guaranteed by the
frequent use of definitions and examples, a glossary of the terms
used, overviews and chapter summaries, suggestions for further
reading, and study questions. For the Key to Study Questions click
here.
How much of language is motivated? Recently, cognitive and
functional linguists have proposed new solutions to this intriguing
question. The thirteen articles collected in this volume cover
various aspects of motivation in grammar and in the lexicon. The
phenomena discussed in the contributions can be grouped into four
types of motivation, which, along with other types, are explicated
in the introductory chapter: ecological motivation, i.e. motivation
of a linguistic unit due to its place, or "ecological niche,"
within a system; genetic motivation, i.e. motivation of present-day
linguistic behavior or structure due to historical factors;
experiential motivation, i.e. motivation that is based on embodied
experience; and cognitive motivation, i.e. motivation that is based
on human knowledge and cognitive operations such as metonymy and
metaphor. The languages studied in some detail include Afrikaans,
Croatian, Dutch, English, French, German, Hausa, and Hungarian.
This volume makes a strong case for the pervasiveness of motivation
in natural language. It will be of interest to teachers,
researchers and students of linguistics, especially of functional
and cognitive linguistics.
In the past two decades, the study of prepositions has grown
steadily. The papers collected in this volume bring together the
multifaceted perspectives on prepositions that have been developed
in contemporary linguistics. Some papers mainly discuss syntactic
(and morphological) aspects of prepositions; other papers
predominantly focus on cognitive aspects. All the papers are,
however, concerned with the semantics of prepositions. This volume
evolved from a workshop on prepositions held at Hamburg University
on June 26 and 27, 1998.
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