Ten Lectures on Language As Cognition : : A Multi-Method Approach / / Dagmar Divjak and Petar Milin.

• Superior document: Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics Series ; Volume 28
• Author: China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics
• VerfasserIn: Divjak, Dagmar,; Milin, Petar,
• TeilnehmendeR: Milin, Petar,; China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics (20th : 2021 : Bejing, China)
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Distinguished lectures in cognitive linguistics ; Volume 28.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (293 pages)

"Merging insights from cognitive linguistic theories of language and learning theories originating within psychology, Divjak and Milin present a new paradigm that has computational modelling at its core. They showcase the power of this interdisciplinary approach for linguistic theory, methodology and description. Through a series of detailed case studies that model usage of the English article system, the Polish aspectual system, English tense/aspect contrasts and the Serbian case system they show how computational models anchored in learning can provide a simple and comprehensive account of how intricate phenomena that have long defied a unified treatment could be learned from exposure to usage alone. As such, their models form the basis for a first rigorous test of a core assumption of usage-based linguistics: that of the emergence of structure from use"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Usage-based linguistics -- Memory and attention -- Construal -- Learning -- Allomorphy -- How to teach machines to learn -- Inflectional paradigms and classes -- The unbearable lightness of English articles -- Modelling aspect: do we really have a choice? -- Is the past perfect and the present continuous: questioning the cognitive reality of tense label.