Foundations of Cognitive Grammar: Volume II: Descriptive Application Hardcover - 1991 - 1st Edition
by Ronald W. Langacker
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THE DESCRIPTION OF nominals most revealingly begins with a characterization of nouns, their conceptually autonomous structural core.
From the rear cover
This is the second volume of a two-volume work that introduces a new and fundamentally different conception of language structure and linguistic investigation. The central claim of cognitive grammar is that grammar forms a continuum with lexicon and is fully describable in terms of symbolic units (i.e. form-meaning pairings). In contrast to current orthodoxy, the author argues that grammar is not autonomous with respect to semantics, but rather reduces to patterns for the structuring and symbolization of conceptual content.
This volume suggests how to use the theoretical tools presented in Volume I, applying cognitive grammar to a broad array of representative grammatical phenomena, primarily (but by no means exclusively) drawn from English.
Reviews
"The amount of data and the wealth of analyses presented is impressive. . . . Langacker has again succeeded in producing a very stimulating and coherent piece of work. And the material analyses offered deserve much more careful attention and reflection than is possible within the limits of a review."
--Canadian Journal of Linguistics
"Finding ways to talk about language as a cognitive process intricately interwoven with conceptual behavior seems to be the unifying concern of cognitive linguistics in general, and Langacker's work is of major significance in this respect. It has not been possible in this short review to do justice to the enormous complexity of the theoretical enterprise presented in Foundations of Cognitive Grammar nor the detail of analytical procedures and findings."
--Australian Journal of Linguistics
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- Title Foundations of Cognitive Grammar: Volume II: Descriptive Application
- Author Ronald W. Langacker
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 628
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford
- Date 1991-08-01
- ISBN 9780804719094 / 0804719098
- Weight 2.1 lbs (0.95 kg)
- Dimensions 9.29 x 6.36 x 1.62 in (23.60 x 16.15 x 4.11 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Cognitive grammar
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 84051300
- Dewey Decimal Code 415
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