Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis

✍ Scribed by Ellen Contini-Morava (Ed.), Robert S. Kirsner (Ed.), Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller (Ed.)

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 398
• Series: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 51
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume is the product of a Columbia School Linguistics Conference held at Rutgers University in October 1999, where the plenary speaker was Ronald W. Langacker, a founder of Cognitive Linguistics. The goal of the book is to promote two kinds of dialogue. First, dialogue between Cognitive Grammar and the particular sign-based approach to language known as the Columbia School. While they share certain basic assumptions, the “maximalist” CG and the “minimalist” CS differ both theoretically and methodologically. Given that philosophers from Mill to Kuhn to Feyerabend have stressed the importance to any discipline of dialogue between opposing views, the dialogue begun here cannot fail to bear fruit. The second kind of dialogue is that among several sign-based approaches themselves and also between them and two competitors: grammaticalization theory and generic functionalism. Topics range from phonology to discourse. Analytical problems are taken from a wide range of languages including English, German, Guarani, Hebrew, Hualapai, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Mandarin, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Urdu, and Yaqui.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
List of contributors......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
PART I Cognitive Grammar......Page 28
CHAPTER 1 Form, meaning, and behavior-The Cognitive Grammar analysis of double subject constructions......Page 30
CHAPTER 2 Cataphoric pronounsas mental space designators-Their conceptual import and discourse function......Page 70
PART II Theoretical issues inclassical sign-based linguistics......Page 100
CHAPTER 3 Monosemy, homonymy and polysemy......Page 102
CHAPTER 4 On the relationship between form and grammatical meaning in the linguistic sign......Page 140
CHAPTER 5 Revisiting the gap between meaning and message......Page 164
PART III Analyses on the level ofthe classic linguistic sign......Page 184
CHAPTER 6 The givenness of background A semantic–pragmatic study of two modern German subordinating conjunctions......Page 186
CHAPTER 7 The relevance of relevance in linguistic analysis Spanish subjunctive mood......Page 214
CHAPTER 8 A sign-based analysis of English pronounsin conjoined expressions......Page 228
CHAPTER 9 Semantic oppositions in the Hebrew verb systemA sign-oriented approach......Page 244
CHAPTER 10 Grammaticization of ‘to’ and ‘away’A unified account of -k and -m in Hualapai......Page 270
PART IV Below and above the level of the sign......Page 284
CHAPTER 11 Interaction of physiology and communication in the makeup and distribution of stops in Lucknow Urdu......Page 286
CHAPTER 12 Between phonology and lexiconThe Hebrew triconsonantal (CCC) root systemrevolving around /r/ (C-r-C)......Page 298
CHAPTER 13 Length of the extra-information phraseas a predictor of word order A cross-language comparison......Page 334
CHAPTER 14 Word-order variation in spoken Spanish in constructions with a verb, a direct object,and an adverb......Page 350
CHAPTER 15 Estrategias discursivas como parámetrospara el análisis lingüístico......Page 370
Index of names......Page 390
Index of subjects......Page 393