Grammar and Cognition: Dualistic models of language structure and language processing

✍ Scribed by Alexander Haselow (editor), Gunther Kaltenböck (editor)

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 368
• Series: Human Cognitive Processing; 70
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume brings together linguistic, psychological and neurological research in a discussion of the Cognitive Dualism Hypothesis, whose central idea is that human cognitive activity in general and linguistic cognition in particular cannot reasonably be reduced to a single, monolithic system of mental processing, but that they have a dualistic organization. Drawing on a wide range of methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks that account for how language users mentally represent, process and produce linguistic discourse, the studies in this volume provide a critical examination of dualistic approaches to language and cognition and their impact on a number of fields. The topics range from formulaic language, the study of reasoning and linguistic discourse, and the lexicon–grammar distinction to studies of specific linguistic expressions and structures such as pragmatic markers and particles, comment adverbs, extra-clausal elements in spoken discourse and the processing of syntactic groups.

✦ Table of Contents

Grammar and Cognition
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Preface
The brain and the mind behind grammar: Dualistic approaches in grammar research and (neuro)cognitive studies of language
1. Introduction: Two traditions of grammatical research
2. Linguistic approaches to dualism
3. Psychological approaches to dualism
4. Neurological approaches to dualism
5. The contributions to this volume
References
Part 1. Dualistic approaches to language and cognition
1. Familiar phrases in language competence: Linguistic, psychological, and neurological observations support a dual process model of language
1. Background
2. Characteristics of familiar phrases
3. Examples from media: Knowledge of familiar expressions and their characteristics
4. Incidence of familiar phrases known to speakers
5. Cohesion and flexibility in familiar phrases
6. Memory capacity: Relationship to familiarity
7. Acquisition of formulaic expressions: Frequency of exposure or rapid uptake
8. Psycholinguistic approaches: On line and survey studies
9. Neurological studies of formulaic language
10. Dual-process model of speech production
11. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Funding
References
2. Dual process frameworks on reasoning and linguistic discourse: A comparison
1. Introduction
2. Mental activity
2.1 The distinction
2.2 Features proposed
2.3 Interaction between the two types
2.4 Discussion
3. Linguistic activity
3.1 Frameworks
3.1.1 Formulaic vs. novel speech
3.1.2 Thetical grammar vs. sentence grammar
3.1.3 Macrostructure vs. microstructure
3.2 Discussion
4. Comparison
4.1 Themes
4.1.1 Interaction between types
4.1.2 Context
4.1.3 Coherence
4.1.4 Analyzability
4.1.5 Truth conditions
4.1.6 Self-control
4.1.7 Intuitive vs. reflective behavior
4.2 Discussion
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
3. Language activity in the light of cerebral hemisphere differences: Towards a pragma-syntactic account of human grammar
1. Introduction
2. Hemispheric asymmetry in humans
3. Hemispheric asymmetry in language processing
4. The Fribourg pragma-syntax
4.1 Macro-syntactic approaches in French linguistics
4.2 The Fribourg model: Discourse and articulations
4.3 Morphosyntactic domain
4.4 Pragma-syntactic domain
4.4.1 Enunciation
4.4.2 Discursive memory
4.4.3 Macro-syntactic routines
4.4.4 Model of the world vs model of communicative actions
5. Linking pragma-syntax with hemispheric asymmetry
5.1 On the necessity to find an appropriate equilibrium between both operational domains
5.2 Effects on discursive memory: Primary cues vs meta-enunciative cues
5.2.1 LH dysfunction and impaired access to verbal content of clauses
5.2.2 RH dysfunction and impaired access to metacommunicative cues
6. Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
Funding
References
4. Dual processing in a functional-cognitive theory of grammar and its neurocognitive basis
1. Introduction
2. Construction grammar and the distinction between lexicon and grammar
3. Our proposal: Secondary prominence and dependency
4. Modularity vs. parallel distributed processing
5. A neurocognitive framework: The REF model
6. Two aspects of the language ability: The ability to retrieve from the cognitive store – and the ability to combine retrieved items
7. Grammar in a differentiated spectrum of ‘dualities’
8. Summary and conclusions
References
Part 2. Dualistic approaches to the analysis of forms and structures in languages
5. Dichotomous or continuous? Final particles and a dualistic conception of grammar
1. Introduction
2. Sequences of sentence-final particles in East Asian languages
2.1 Japanese sentence-final particles and their ordering principle
2.2 Sentence-final particle sequences in Korean, Chinese, and Mongolian
2.3 “Grammatical” aspects of sentence-final particles
3. Final particle sequences in West European languages
3.1 English final particles (pragmatic markers) and their sequences
3.2 Sequence of final pragmatic markers in Spanish
3.3 Final-particle sequences in German
3.4 Syntactic rather than morphological regulation of final particles
4. Further testimony to continuity in dualistic conceptions of grammar
4.1 Syntactic regulation and morphological integration
4.2 Utterance-final particles and “final field” in Japanese
4.3 Ordering principle and degree of morphosyntactic integration
5. Final particles in dualistic conceptions of grammar
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Funding
References
6. The semantics, syntax and prosody of adverbs in English: An FDG perspective
1. Introduction
2. The relation between the semantic, syntactic, and prosodic features of “parenthetical” adverbs
3. Criteria and application
3.1 Semantic (non-)integration
3.1.1 The assent-dissent test
3.1.2 The scope (“embedding”) test
3.2 Prosodic (non-)integration
3.3 Syntactic (non-)integration
3.3.1 Subset 1: Syntactic features following from semantic non-integration
3.3.2 Subset 2: Syntactic features unrelated to semantic non-integration
3.3.3 Subset 3: Syntactic features unrelated to semantic and prosodic non-integration
3.3.4 Summary
4. FDG analysis
4.1 Introduction to FDG
4.1.1 Overall characterization
4.1.2 Four levels of analysis
4.2 A (partial) classification of adverbs in FDG
4.2.1 The distinction between interpersonal and representational modifiers
4.2.2 Adverbs as separate Propositional Contents at the Representational Level
4.2.3 Adverbs as separate Discourse Acts at the Interpersonal Level
4.3 Summing up
5. Conclusion
References
Corpora
7. Formulaic language and Discourse Grammar: Evidence from speech disorder
1. Introduction
2. Discourse Grammar and hemispheric differences
2.1 The concept of Discourse Grammar
2.2 Neurolinguistic correlations
3. Formulaic language and brain lateralization
3.1 What are formulaic sequences?: Delimiting an elusive concept
3.2 Formulaic language: A right-hemisphere phenomenon?
3.3 Classifying formulaic sequences
3.3.1 Hudson‘s (1998) fixed expressions
3.3.2 Erman and Warren‘s (2000) prefabs
3.3.3 Cowie’s (1988) formulae and composites
3.3.4 Wray‘s (2002) heteromorphic distributed lexicon
3.4 Interim conclusion
4. Formulaic sequences in aphasia and right hemisphere disorder
4.1 Outline of the study: Aim and database
4.2 Data analysis
4.2.1 Identifying formulaic sequences
4.2.2 Classification as SG-FS or TG-FS
4.3 Results
4.4 Discussion
5. Conclusion
References
8. Local and global structures in discourse and interaction: Linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects
1. Introduction
2. Micro-and macrostructures in language
3. Micro- and macrostructures in spontaneous speech: Psycholinguistic aspects
4. Structural relations on the macrolevel
5. Grammatical principles on the macrolevel of language structure
5.1 Turn-initial and -final extra-clausal constituents
5.2 Method
5.3 Results
6. Discussion
7. Conclusion
References
9. Agreement Groups and dualistic syntactic processing
1. Introduction
1.1 Agreement groups
1.2 Agreement groups coverage
2. Inherent dualities of the AG model
2.1 Duality 1: Familiar versus novel utterances
2.2 Duality 2: Direct mapping onto groups versus onto combinations of groups
2.3 Duality 3: Continuous vs. discontinuous fragments
3. Theoretical implications for linguistic modelling
3.1 Familiar-novel ‘continuum’
3.2 Groups and group combinations: A dualistic parsing mechanism
3.3 Discontinuity enhances processing potential
4. AGs and cognitive processing
4.1 Usage-based generalisations
4.2 Categorisation
4.3 Errors
4.4 Discourse cues for shaping AGs
4.5 Time course of language acquisition
4.6 AGs as constructions
5. AGs beyond syntax
5.1 Morphology
5.2 Analogical reasoning
5.3 Concept representation
5.4 Language evolution
6. Conclusions
References
Index