Bücher der Reihe Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]

This title elaborates one of Roman Jakobson's brilliant ideas, his insight that the two cognitive strategies of the metaphoric and the metonymic are the end-points on a continuum of conceptualization processes.

The papers in this book are all written within a cognitive linguistics framework, concentrated around different linguistic aspects of the verb. The two keynote papers serve as an introduction to this main theme, providing a broad perspective and a general, theoretical background.

I-VIII -- Introduction -- Assessing the cognitive linguistic enterprise -- Some contributions of typology to cognitive linguistics and vice versa -- Methods and generalizations -- Compositionality and blending: semantic composition in a cognitively realistic framework -- Idealist and empiricist tendencies in cognitive semantics -- Partial Autonomy. Ontology and methodology in cognitive linguistics -- Grounding, mapping, and acts of meaning -- List of contributors -- Index of names -- Subject index -- 271-272

Focusing on a wide range of linguistic structures, the articles in this volume explore the explanatory potential of two of the most influential cognitive-linguistic theories, conceptual metaphor and metonymy theory and conceptual blending theory.

Addresses aspects of language change using the semantics-based theory of Cognitive Linguistics, and focuses on the lexicon and metaphor, the semantics of syntax, and language evolution. This title considers various approaches to questions of the mental organization of meaning and its expression.

All languages of the world provide their speakers with linguistic means to express causal relations in discourse. This book discusses parameters of categorization that shape the use of causal connectives and auxiliary verbs across languages like English, Dutch and Polish.

This volume makes accessible a substantial range of recent research in Cognitive Grammar. From disparate sources, it brings together a dozen innovative papers, revised and integrated to form a coherent whole. This work continues the ongoing program of progressively articulating the theoretical framework and showing its descriptive application to varied grammatical phenomena. A number of major topics are examined in depth through multiple chapters viewing them from different perspectives: grammatical constructions (their general nature, their metonymic basis, their role in grammaticization), nominal grounding (quantifiers, possessives, impersonal it), clausal grounding (its relation to nominal grounding, an epistemic account of tense, a systemic view of the English auxiliary), the "e;control cycle"e; (an abstract cognitive model with many linguistic manifestations), finite clauses (their internal structure and external grammar), and complex sentences (complementation, subordination, coordination). In each case the presentation builds from fundamentals and introduces the background needed for comprehension. At the same time, by bringing fresh approaches and new descriptive insights to classic problems, it represents a significant advance in understanding grammar and indicates future directions of theory and research in the Cognitive Grammar framework. The book is of great interest to students and practitioners of cognitive linguistics and to scholars in related areas.