Ten Lectures on the Elaboration of Cognitive Grammar
Ten Lectures on the Elaboration of Cognitive Grammar

Author: Ronald Langacker

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-07-31

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 900434747X

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This book reviews the basic claims and descriptive constructs of Cognitive Grammar, outlines major themes in its ongoing development, and applies these notions to central problems in grammatical analysis. The initial review covers conceptual semantics, the conceptual characterization of grammatical categories, grammatical constructions, and the architecture of a unified theory of language structure. Main themes in the framework’s development include the dynamicity of language structure, grammar as the implementation of semantic functions, systems of opposing elements to serve those functions, and organization in strata representing successive elaborations of a baseline structure. The descriptive application of these notions centers on nominal and clausal structure, with special emphasis on nominal grounding.

Ten Lectures on the Basics of Cognitive Grammar
Ten Lectures on the Basics of Cognitive Grammar

Author: Ronald Langacker

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-07-31

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 9004347453

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These lectures provide a basic introduction to the linguistic theory known as Cognitive Grammar. It is argued that a conceptualist semantics, well motivated in its own terms, provides the basis for a symbolic view of grammar. Consisting in the structuring and symbolization of conceptual content, grammar is inherently meaningful, and basic grammatical notions have conceptual characterizations. An account is given of grammatical categories, markings, and constructions. A number of central topics are examined in detail, including subjects, possessives, locatives, voice, and impersonals.

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Semantics
Ten Lectures on Cognitive Semantics

Author: Leonard Talmy

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-01-29

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 900434957X

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In his ten Beijing lectures, Leonard Talmy represents the range of his work in cognitive semantics. The central concern of this approach is the linguistic representation of conceptual structure, that is, the patterns in which and processes by which conceptual content is organized in language. The lectures examine the semantics of grammar, force dynamics, a typology of how motion events are represented, factive versus fictive motion, a typology of event integration, differences in how spoken and signed language structure space, the attention system of language, introspection as a methodology in linguistics, the relation of language to other cognitive systems, and digitalization in the Evolution of language.

NGLISH ACROSS DISCIPLINES: Proceedings of the Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching Conference 2022
NGLISH ACROSS DISCIPLINES: Proceedings of the Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching Conference 2022

Author: Contributors:

Publisher: Zayed University Press

Published: 2024-02-09

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9948791444

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This volume contains a selection of articles that were originally presented at the Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching International Conference and Exhibition (ALLT 2022), held at Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in March 2022. The articles in this volume represent the diverse backgrounds, experiences, and research interests of the ALLT presenters. They cover a range of theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical practices with a strong emphasis on language teaching. While most of the papers focus on English language, the findings and lessons are applicable to the teaching of any language. This makes the volume an invaluable resource, addressing important aspects of contemporary research topics and the pedagogy of language teaching.

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Construction of Meaning
Ten Lectures on Cognitive Construction of Meaning

Author: Gilles Fauconnier

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-07-17

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 9004360719

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As we think and talk, rich arrays of mental spaces and connections between them are constructed unconsciously. Conceptual integration of mental spaces leads to new meaning, global insight, and compressions useful for memory and creativity. A powerful aspect of conceptual integration networks is the dynamic emergence of novel structure in all areas of human life (science, religion, art, ...). The emergence of complex metaphors creates our conceptualization of time. The same operations play a role in material culture generally. Technology evolves to produce cultural human artefacts such as watches, gauges, compasses, airplane cockpit displays, with structure specifically designed to match conceptual inputs and integrate with them into stable blended frames of perception and action that can be memorized, learned by new generations, and thus culturally transmitted.

Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects
Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects

Author: Yolanda Fernández-Pena

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-12-30

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1000282007

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This book uses corpus-based methodologies to investigate the wide variety of factors behind verb number agreement with complex collective noun phrases in English. The literature on collective nouns and their agreement patterns spans an array of disciplines and approaches. However, little of the research conducted to date has focused on the influence of of-dependents on verb number with relational collective nouns, as in examples such as a bunch of or a group of. Drawing on data from two case studies – one based on the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), and the other on the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) – Fernández-Pena uses statistical modelling to unpack the different morphological, syntactic, semantic and lexical dimensions of the variables affecting verb number agreement with complex collective noun phrases in English. This multidimensional analysis of the significance of of-dependents in the patterning and contemporary usage of collective nouns offers new insight into and understanding of both synchronic variation and diachronic change. This book is an essential read for scholars of English language variation and change, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, and usage-based approaches to the study of language.

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Modeling
Ten Lectures on Cognitive Modeling

Author: Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-11-04

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 9004439226

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These lectures discuss cognitive modelling in language-based meaning construction. It puts forward a unified analytical framework for several linguistic phenomena, including different types of constructions, traditional implicature and speech acts, and figures of speech like metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole, and irony.

Ten Lectures on Language, Cognition, and Language Acquisition
Ten Lectures on Language, Cognition, and Language Acquisition

Author: Melissa Bowerman

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-07-17

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 9004362827

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In her Beijing lectures, Melissa Bowerman presents a lucid introduction and account of her research on a range of topics: how children acquire the semantics of spatial terms, how they construct categories and acquire the semantics of nouns, and how they master the semantics of verbs in early language acquisition. Bowerman also covers the learning of argument structure and expressions of end-state, with special attention to the adult speech that guides children, and hence also the role of typology in acquisition; how cross-linguistic variation affects, for example, how speakers represent ‘cutting’ and ‘breaking’ in different languages, and the relation of the Whorfian Hypothesis to cross-linguistic variations in the semantics of languages. Bowerman’s over-riding concern throughout is with how children come to master the first language being spoken to them by their parents and caregivers.

Ten Lectures on Language, Culture and Mind
Ten Lectures on Language, Culture and Mind

Author: Chris Sinha

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-08-28

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 900434909X

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In this interdisciplinary collection of lectures, Chris Sinha presents an overview of topics ranging from language in children’s play, through cultural conceptualizations of time, to philosophical and linguistic relativism. The intertwining of the evolutionary and individual time scales of human development is a key theme unifying the lectures, as is the fundamentally cultural nature of language and cognition. Familiar topics in cognitive linguistics, such as spatial semantics and conceptual blending, are addressed from these cultural, comparative and developmental perspectives. Chris Sinha also discusses the psychological roots of key concepts in cognitive linguistics, and sets out a biocultural approach to language evolution.

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Evolutionary Linguistics
Ten Lectures on Cognitive Evolutionary Linguistics

Author: Arie Verhagen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-06-22

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9004422358

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Conceiving of language and cognition as biological phenomena, these lectures provide and illustrate a coherent, integrated theoretical framework for studying essentially any aspect of language systems, language use, language change, and language evolution.