Cognitive Linguistics - Key Topics

✍ Scribed by Ewa Dąbrowska (editor); Dagmar Divjak (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 320
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The key topics discussed in this book illustrate the breadth of cognitive linguistic research and include semantic typology, space, fictive motion, argument structure constructions, and prototype effects in grammar. New themes such as individual differences, emergence, and default non-salient interpretations also receive coverage.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Chapter 1: Semantic typology
Chapter 2: Polysemy
Chapter 3: Space
Chapter 4: Time
Chapter 5: Motion
Chapter 6: Fictive motion
Chapter 7: Prototype effects in grammar
Chapter 8: Argument structure constructions
Chapter 9: Default nonliteral interpretations. The case of negation as a low-salience marker
Chapter 10: Tense, aspect and mood
Chapter 11: Grammaticalization
Chapter 12: Individual differences in grammatical knowledge
Chapter 13: Signed languages
Chapter 14: Emergentism
Index

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