"John R. Taylor introduces the theory of Cognitive Grammar, placing it in the context of current theoretical debates about the nature of linguistic knowledge, and relating it to more general trends in cognitive linguistics. The central concepts of the theory are explained in cle…
This book introduces the notion of change construction and systematically studies, within a Cognitive Grammar framework, the rich inventory of its instantiations in English, from well-known structures such as the so-called resultative construction to a variety of largely ignored…
The motivated sign: a selection of papers given at the second interna…
by Norrman, Ralf, Goh, Robbie B. H., Nöth, Winfried, Sadowski, Piotr, Anderson, Earl R., Herlofsky, William J., International and Interdisciplinary Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (2, 1999, Amsterdam), White, John J., Henry, Anne C.
fromIconicity in language and literature
This volume contributes to the now one-century old question, 'Is the link between forms and meanings in language essentially arbitrary, as Saussure put it, or is it on the contrary also considerably motivated?' The greater part of the papers (Sections 1-3) analyze linguistic phe…
This is the second volume of papers on sign-based linguistics to emerge from Columbia School linguistics conferences. One set of articles offers semantic analyses of grammatical features of specific languages: English full-verb inversion; Serbo-Croatian deictic pronouns; English…
Studies in linguistic motivation
by Panther, Klaus-Uwe, Radden, Günter
fromCognitive linguistics research
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 t…
Studies in linguistic motivation
by Panther, Klaus-Uwe, Radden, Günter
fromCognitive linguistics research