The first four lectures revolve around field semantics β research methods for studying linguistic meaning under fieldwork conditions. The remaining six lectures deal with semantic typology, the crosslinguistic study of how humans communicate about the world in terms of the meaning categories of the
Ten Lectures on Grammaticalization: An Introduction (Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics, 33)
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- Publisher
- Brill Academic Pub
- Year
- 2024
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 226
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This unique series brings together the greatest minds in cognitive linguistics. Each volume contains the transcripts of the 10 keynote lectures given by a distinguished scholar at the China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics since 2004.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Grammatical Category Labels
Note on Supplementary Material
Lecture 1 Introduction
Lecture 2 Basic Concepts of Grammaticalization Theory
Lecture 3 Types of Variation in Grammar
Lecture 4 Criteria and Parameters of Grammaticalization
Lecture 5 Delimiting Grammaticalization
Lecture 6 Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects of Grammaticalization
Lecture 7 Grammaticalization in Some Functional Domains
Lecture 8 Directionality of Grammaticalization
Lecture 9 Grammaticalization and Linguistic Typology
Lecture 10 Cognitive Basis of Grammaticalization
Conclusion
References
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