Overview

Cognitive linguistics has an honourable tradition of paying respect to naturally occurring language data and there have been fruitful interactions between corpus data and aspects of linguistic structure and meaning. More recently, dialect data and sociolinguistic data collection methods/theoretical concepts have started to generate interest. There has also been an increase in several kinds of experimental work. However, not all linguistic data is simply naturally occurring or derived from experiments with statistically robust samples of speakers. Other traditions, especially the generative tradition, have fruitfully used introspection and questions about the grammaticality of different strings to uncover patterns which might otherwise have gone unnoticed. The divide between generative and cognitive approaches to language is intimately connected to the kinds of data drawn on, and the way in which generalisations are derived from these data. The papers in this volume explore these issues through the lens of synchronic linguistic analysis, the study of language change, typological investigation and experimental study. Originally published in Studies in Language Vol. 36:3 (2012).

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Author:   Nikolas Gisborne (University of Edinburgh) ,  Willem B. Hollmann (Lancaster University)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   67
Weight:   0.625kg
ISBN:  

9789027242556

ISBN 10:   9027242550
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   24 September 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Theory and data in cognitive linguistics (by Gisborne, Nikolas); 3. Frequencies, probabilities, and association measures in usage-/exemplar-based linguistics: Some necessary clarifications (by Gries, Stefan Th.); 4. Reconstructing constructional semantics: The dative subject construction in Old Norse-Icelandic, Latin, Ancient Greek, Old Russian and Old Lithuanian (by Barddal, Johanna); 5. The historical development of the it-cleft: A comparison of two different approaches (by Patten, Amanda L.); 6. Theory and data in diachronic Construction Grammar: The case of the what with construction (by Trousdale, Graeme); 7. The semantics of definite expressions and the grammaticalization of THE (by Gisborne, Nikolas); 8. Cognitive explanations, distributional evidence, and diachrony (by Cristofaro, Sonia); 9. Word classes: Towards a more comprehensive usage-based account (by Hollmann, Willem B.); 10. Smashing new results on aspectual framing: How people talk about car accidents (by Matlock, Teenie); 11. Index

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Comprehensive, informative and insightful, this volume brings together a series of extraordinarily careful analyses which significantly advance our understanding of language and will be useful to students and established researchers alike. The contributions make connections between theory and data, investigations of lexis and syntax, form and function, and diachrony and synchrony in a synthesis that embraces 'traditional' cognitive linguistic topics as well as phenomena that have hitherto been within the purview of formalist approaches. -- Ewa Dabrowska, University of Northumbria

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