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Ronald W. Langacker
Ronald W.
Langacker
Lecture 4 - Ten Lectures on the Elaboration of Cognitive Grammar
Brill Online
2017
strata
quantifiers
grammatical categories
cognitive linguistics
function
system
dynamicity
Linguistics
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<p>This book reviews
the basic claims and descriptive constructs of Cognitive Grammar, outlines
major themes in its ongoing development, and applies these notions to central
problems in grammatical analysis. The initial review covers conceptual
semantics, the conceptual characterization of grammatical categories,
grammatical constructions, and the architecture of a unified theory of language
structure. Main themes in the frameworkâs development include the dynamicity of
language structure, grammar as the implementation of semantic functions,
systems of opposing elements to serve those functions, and organization in
strata representing successive elaborations of a baseline structure. The
descriptive application of these notions centers on nominal and clausal structure,
with special emphasis on nominal grounding.</p>