Change of Paradigms – New Paradoxes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Change of Paradigms – New Paradoxes write by Jocelyne Daems. This book was released on 2015-10-16. Change of Paradigms – New Paradoxes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Paradigm and Paradox, Dirk Geeraerts formulated many of the basic tenets that were to form what Cognitive Linguistics is today. Change of Paradigms –New Paradoxes links back to this seminal work, exploring which of the original theories and ideas still stand strong, which new questions have arisen and which ensuing new paradoxes need to be addressed. It thus reveals how Cognitive Linguistics has developed and diversified over the past decades.
Explanations in Sociosyntactic Variation
Explanations in Sociosyntactic Variation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Explanations in Sociosyntactic Variation write by Tanya Karoli Christensen. This book was released on 2022-01-20. Explanations in Sociosyntactic Variation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New perspectives on how and why syntax varies between and within speakers, focusing on explaining theoretical backgrounds and methods.
Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar
Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar write by Lotte Sommerer. This book was released on 2020-05-15. Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together ten contributions by leading experts who present their current usage-based research in Diachronic Construction Grammar. All papers contribute to the discussion of how to conceptualize constructional networks best and how to model changes in the constructicon, as for example node creation or loss, node-external reconfiguration of the network or in/decrease in productivity and schematicity. The authors discuss the theoretical status of allostructions, homostructions, constructional families and constructional paradigms. The terminological distinction between constructionalization and constructional change is revisited. It is shown how constructional competition but also general cognitive abilities like analogical thinking and schematization relate to the structure and reorganization of the constructional network. Most contributions focus on the nature of vertical and horizontal links. Finally, contributions to the volume also discuss how existing network models should be enriched or reconceptualized in order to integrate theoretical, psychological and neurological aspects missing so far.
Analogy and Contrast in Language
Analogy and Contrast in Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Analogy and Contrast in Language write by Karolina Krawczak. This book was released on 2022-10-15. Analogy and Contrast in Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Within cognitive and functional approaches to language structure and grammaticality, analogy and contrast represent two fundamental human cognitive capacities, which, up to now, have mostly been examined separately. This volume seeks to bridge that gap and in doing so it brings together cutting-edge theoretical and empirical research in the field. The chapters in this book examine analogy and contrast across a variety of languages (English, Finnish, Hungarian, Polish, Russian), for different language phenomena (constructions, lexical semantics, morphology, sentence structure, text organization), and with the use of various methods (corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, experimental methods, qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis). This state-of-the-art research presented in the book should be of interest to specialists within Cognitive Linguistics, corpus linguistics, construction grammar, discourse analysis, translation studies, metaphor research, and cross-cultural research.
Competition in Language Change
Competition in Language Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Competition in Language Change write by Eva Zehentner. This book was released on 2019-06-17. Competition in Language Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses one of the most pervasive questions in historical linguistics – why variation becomes stable rather than being eliminated – by revisiting the so far neglected history of the English dative alternation. The alternation between a nominal and a prepositional ditransitive pattern (John gave Mary a book vs. John gave a book to Mary) emerged in Middle English and is closely connected to broader changes at that time. Accordingly, the main quantitative investigation focuses on ditransitive patterns in the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English; in addition, the book employs an Evolutionary Game Theory model. The results are approached from an ‘evolutionary construction grammar’ perspective, combining evolutionary thinking with diachronic constructionist notions, and the alternation’s emergence is interpreted as a story of constructional innovation, competition, cooperation and co-evolution. The book not only provides a thorough and detailed analysis of the history of one of the most-discussed syntactic phenomena in English, but by fusing two frameworks and employing two different methodologies also presents a highly innovative approach to a problem of relevance to historical linguistics in general.
