The Nature Of Rules Regularities And Units In Language

Author : Rolf Kreyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110318717
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Rules, Regularities and Units in Language written by Rolf Kreyer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive networks of language make use of structures that go beyond the basic associative connections that can be found in the brain. The present study is an attempt to provide an account of language that restricts itself to structures of a neurophysiological kind, i.e. simple nodes, excitatory and inhibitory connections.

Author : Sebastian Patt
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3823367536
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Punctuation as a Means of Medium-dependent Presentation Structure in English written by Sebastian Patt and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2013 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Hilpert
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004446796
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ten Lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar written by Martin Hilpert and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Martin Hilpert lays out how Construction Grammar can be applied to the study of language change. In a series of ten lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar, the book presents the theoretical foundations, open questions, and methodological approaches that inform the constructional analysis of diachronic processes in language. The lectures address issues such as constructional networks, competition between constructions, shifts in collocational preferences, and differentiation and attraction in constructional change. The book features analyses that utilize modern corpus-linguistic methodologies and that draw on current theoretical discussions in usage-based linguistics. It is relevant for researchers and students in cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, and historical linguistics.

Author : Evie Coussé
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027264163
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar written by Evie Coussé and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammaticalization research has increasingly highlighted the notion of constructions in the last decade. In the wake of this heightened interest, efforts have been made in grammaticalization research to more precisely articulate the largely pretheoretical notion of construction in the theoretical framework of construction grammar. As such, grammaticalization research increasingly interacts and converges with the emerging field of diachronic construction grammar. This volume brings together articles that are situated at the intersection of grammaticalization research and diachronic construction grammar. All articles share an interest in integrating insights from grammaticalization research and construction grammar in order to advance our understanding of empirical cases of grammaticalization. Constructions at various levels of abstractness are investigated, both in well-documented languages, such as Ancient Greek, Latin, Spanish, German, Norwegian and English, and in less-described languages, such as Manchu and Mongolian.

Author : Ilse Depraetere
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110734257
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Models of Modals written by Ilse Depraetere and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modal verbs in English communicate delicate shades of meaning, there being a large range of verbs both on the necessity side (must, have to, should, ought to, need, need to) and the possibility side (can, may, could, might, be able to). They therefore constitute excellent test ground to apply and compare different methodologies that can lay bare the factors that drive the speaker’s choice of modal verb. This book is not merely concerned with a purely grammatical description of the use of modal verbs, but aims at advancing our understanding of lexical and grammatical units in general and of linguistic methodologies to explore these. It thus involves a genuine effort to compare, assess and combine a variety of approaches. It complements the leading descriptive qualitative work on modal verbs by testing a diverse range of quantitative methods, while not ignoring qualitative issues pertaining to the semantics-pragmatics interface. Starting from a critical assessment of what constitutes the meaning of modal verbs, different types of empirical studies (usage-based, data-driven and experimental), drawing considerably on the same data sets, shows how method triangulation can contribute to an enhanced understanding. Due attention is also given to individual variation as well as the degree to which modals can predict L2 proficiency level.

Author : Tobias Ungerer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009308750
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructionist Approaches written by Tobias Ungerer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Construction Grammar (CxG) has developed into a broad and highly diverse family of approaches that have in common that they see constructions, i.e. form-meaning pairs at various levels of abstraction and complexity, as the basic units of language. This Element gives an overview of the origin and the current state of the art of constructionist approaches, focusing, on the one hand, on basic concepts like the notion of 'constructions', while at the same time offering an in-depth discussion of current research trends and open questions. It discusses the commonalities and differences between the major constructionist approaches, the organization of constructional networks as well as ongoing research on linguistic creativity, multimodality and individual differences. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ronald W. Langacker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199937354
Total Pages : 278 pages
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Download or read book Essentials of Cognitive Grammar written by Ronald W. Langacker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tailored to students, this abridged version of Cognitive Grammar positions Langacker's authoritative work as an accessible, attractive cornerstone of cognitive linguistics as the field continues to evolve.

Author : Ronald W. Langacker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199887209
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Grammar written by Ronald W. Langacker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-04 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book fills a long standing need for a basic introduction to Cognitive Grammar that is current, authoritative, comprehensive, and approachable. It presents a synthesis that draws together and refines the descriptive and theoretical notions developed in this framework over the course of three decades. In a unified manner, it accommodates both the conceptual and the social-interactive basis of linguistic structure, as well as the need for both functional explanation and explicit structural description. Starting with the fundamentals, essential aspects of the theory are systematically laid out with concrete illustrations and careful discussion of their rationale. Among the topics surveyed are conceptual semantics, grammatical classes, grammatical constructions, the lexicon-grammar continuum characterized as assemblies of symbolic structures (form-meaning pairings), and the usage-based account of productivity, restrictions, and well-formedness. The theory's central claim - that grammar is inherently meaningful - is thereby shown to be viable. The framework is further elucidated through application to nominal structure, clause structure, and complex sentences. These are examined in broad perspective, with exemplification from English and numerous other languages. In line with the theory's general principles, they are discussed not only in terms of their structural characterization, but also their conceptual value and functional motivation. Other matters explored include discourse, the temporal dimension of language structure, and what grammar reveals about cognitive processes and the construction of our mental world.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1004 pages
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