Cognitive Foundations of Linguistic Usage Patterns : : Empirical Studies /

Cognitive Foundations of Linguistic Usage Patterns : : Empirical Studies / / ed. by Hans-Jörg Schmid, Susanne Handl.

The volume presents an up-to-date collection of methodologically sensitive contributions providing mainly enthusiastic, at times also critical support for the cognitive-linguistic enterprise. The book is important for the advancement of cognitive linguistics because the contributions demonstrate the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Bach, Patric,
Detges, Ulrich,
Dunbar, George,
Dąbrowska, Ewa,
Glynn, Dylan,
Graf, Eva-Maria,
Handl, Susanne,
Herbst, Thomas,
Jäkel, Olaf,
Köpcke, Klaus-Michael,
Nerlich, Brigitte,
Panther, Klaus-Uwe,
Schmid, Hans-Jörg,
Zaefferer, Dietmar,
Zubin, David A.,
HerausgeberIn:
Handl, Susanne,
Schmid, Hans-Jörg,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , 13
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Physical Description:1 online resource (277 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Lexical patterns
  • A computational model of the ambiguity-vagueness spectrum
  • Questions of life and death: Denotational boundary disputes
  • Breakthroughs and disasters: The politics and ethics of metaphor use in the media
  • Synonyme, lexical fields, and grammatical constructions. A study in usage-based cognitive semantics
  • Collocation, anchoring, and the mental lexicon – an ontogenetic perspective
  • Part II: Grammatical patterns
  • The mean lean grammar machine meets the human mind: Empirical investigations of the mental status of linguistic rules
  • Motivating grammatical and conceptual gender agreement in German
  • Computed or entrenched? The French imparfait de politesse
  • Valency constructions and clause constructions or how, if at all, valency grammarians might sneeze the foam off the cappuccino
  • What exactly is the question-assertion distinction based on? An exploration in experimental speech act theory
  • Backmatter

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