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Cognitive Grammar

John R. Taylor

Price: £27.50 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-870033-3
Publication date: 19 December 2002
640 pages, 66 line illus, 246x171 mm
Series: Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics
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'Cognitive Grammar is quite an achievement. The book introduces the main aspects of the theory in a clear, concise and congenial manner ... a cohesive and comprehensive account of an approach to linguistic theory which places language within the broader realm of cognition. ' - Journal of Child Language

Description

Written in an accessible, jargon-free style for students
Introduces the concepts and terminology of Langacker's theory
Places cognitive grammar in the 'theoretical landscape' of modern linguistics
The clearest and most comprehensive introduction to cognitive linguistics yet published

'Cognitive Grammar' is a theory of language which has been developing since the late 1970's. Underlying the theory is the assumption that language is inherently symbolic in nature and that a language provides its speakers with a set of resources for relating phonological structures with semantic structures.

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 clear, non-technical language, and are applied to in-depth discussions of a range of topics in semantics, syntax, morphology, and phonology. Suggestions for further applications of the theory are contained in the numerous study questions which accompany each of the main chapters.

Readership: Advanced undergraduate and postgraduate Linguistics students interested in the foundations of linguistic theory and the nature of linguistic analyses. Also students on related courses in cognitive science and English Literature.

Contents

Part 1 Background

1. Cognitive Grammar and Cognitive Linguistics

2. Cognitive Grammar: An Overview

3. The Symbolic Thesis

4. The Symbolic Thesis: Some Questions and Answers

5. Phonological Structure in Cognitive Grammar

6. Semantic Structure in Cognitive Grammar

Part 2 Basic concepts

7. Schema and Instance

8. Schema and Instance in Phonology

9. Schema and Instance in symbolic units

10. Meaning: Profile, Base, and Domain

11. Nominal and Relational Profiles

12. Syntagmatic Relations: Combining Semantic Units

13. Syntagmatic Relations in Phonology

Part 3 Morphology

14. Morphology

15. Analyzability and Productivity

16. Schema Competition

17. Kinds of Symbolic Units

Part 4 Nouns, Verbs, and Clauses

18. Nouns and Nominals

19. Count nouns and Mass nouns

20. Tense and Aspect

Part 5 More on meaning

21. Clause Structure

22. Domains

23. Networks and Complex Categories

24. Metaphor: The Lakovian Approach

25. Jackendorff and Langacker on 'Go'

Part 7 Idioms and constructions

26. Alternatives to metaphor

27. Idioms, Formulas, and Fixed Expressions

28. Constructions

References

Authors, editors, and contributors

John R. Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Otago

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Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure
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