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Evans, Hywel. "Simpler semantics for computational and cognitive linguistics." Investigationes Linguisticae 41 (December 11, 2019): 17–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/il.2018.41.2.

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Certain consequences are considered regarding a simpler, more cognitively plausible treatment of semantics in SignBased Construction Grammar, a cognitive, unification- based theory of language. It is proposed that a construction grammar may be able to improve its coverage of core linguistic phenomena in line with minimalist goals (Chomsky 1993). Suggestions are offered regarding relative clauses and wh-expressions to show that a more straightforward account is available, one that allows a unified treatment of scope for quantifiers and wh-expressions.
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Feldman, Jerome A. "Advances in Embodied Construction Grammar." Constructions and Frames 12, no. 1 (2020): 149–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cf.00038.fel.

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Abstract This paper describes the continuing goals and present status of the ICSI/UC Berkeley efforts on Embodied Construction Grammar (ECG). ECG is semantics-based formalism grounded in cognitive linguistics. ECG is the most explicitly inter-disciplinary of the construction grammars with deep links to computation, neuroscience, and cognitive science. Work continues on core cognitive, computational, and linguistic issues, including aspects of the mind/body problem. Much of the recent emphasis has been on applications and on tools to facilitate new applications. Extensive documentation plus dow
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Peng, Yuhai. "On the Integrated Descriptions of Metaphorical Sememes of Verbs." Russian and Chinese Studies 5, no. 1 (2021): 62–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.17150/2587-7445.2021.5(1).62-72.

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Cognitive metaphor is an important way and mechanism of semantic derivation of verbs, the resulting large number of verbal metaphorical sememes has different expressions in their semantic features, formal syntax, communicative structure and even modality and pragmatics. This paper thoroughly and carefully discusses the problem of semantic change of verbal metaphor in terms of the integrated description method of the Moscow Semantic School. Thus, we will create a unique and innovative framework and theoretical model of generalized formal feature analysis, we will also try to introduce formal se
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Rundquist, Eric. "The Cognitive Grammar of drunkenness: Consciousness representation in Under the Volcano." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 29, no. 1 (2020): 39–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947020908622.

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Cognitive Grammar analyses the semantics of linguistic features in relation to human cognition; Free Indirect Style allows authors to represent their characters’ cognition with language. This article applies Cognitive Grammar to the analysis of a character’s mind that is represented with Free Indirect Style. In the tradition of mind style analysis, it aims to use linguistics to reveal some of the underlying cognitive processes and proclivities at work in the character’s psychology. The character in question is the protagonist in Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, an alcoholic who is largely ch
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Seuren, Pieter. "Essentials of Semantic Syntax." Cadernos de Linguística 2, no. 1 (2021): 01–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2021.v2.n1.id290.

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Semantic Syntax (SeSyn), originally called Generative Semantics, is an offshoot of Chomskyan generative grammar (ChoGG), rejected by Chomsky and his school in the late 1960s. SeSyn is the theory of algorithmical grammars producing the well-formed sentences of a language L from the corresponding semantic input, the Semantic Analysis (SA), represented as a traditional tree structure diagram in a specific formal language of incremental predicate logic with quantifying and qualifying operators (including the truth functions), and with all lexical items filled in. A SeSyn-type grammar is thus by de
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Langacker, Ronald W. "A view from cognitive linguistics." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22, no. 4 (1999): 625. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x99392141.

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Barsalou's contribution converges with basic ideas and empirical findings of cognitive linguistics. They posit the same general architecture. The perceptual grounding of conceptual structure is a central tenet of cognitive linguistics. Our capacity to construe the same situation in alternate ways is fundamental to cognitive semantics, and numerous parallels are discernible between conceptual construal and visual perception. Grammar is meaningful, consisting of schematized patterns for the pairing of semantic and phonological structures. The meanings of grammatical elements reside primarily in
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Marmaridou, Sophia. "Cognitive, cultural, and constructional motivations of polysemy and semantic change." Pragmatics and Cognition 18, no. 1 (2010): 68–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pc.18.1.04mar.

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Within the framework of cognitive linguistics and construction grammar (as in Lakoff 1987; Langacker 2000; Goldberg 1995; and Fried and Östman 2004), it is claimed in this paper that the semantics of psuche (psyche) is motivated by cognitive, cultural, and constructional parameters of meaning. More specifically, it is argued that psyche, as the immaterial nature of a human being, and the seat of emotions and feelings in particular, is understood in terms of image-based metaphors, a cultural model of the self, and a cultural narrative of existence. It is also argued that the frequent occurrence
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Singh, Rajdeep. "Derivational Grammar Model and Basket Verb: A Novel Approach to the Inflectional Phrase in the Generative Grammar and Cognitive Processing." English Linguistics Research 7, no. 2 (2018): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/elr.v7n2p9.

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Generative grammar was a true revolution in the linguistics. However, to describe language behavior in its semantic essence and universal aspects, generative grammar needs to have a much richer semantic basis. In this paper, we took a novel morpho-syntactic approach to the inflectional phrase to account for the very diverse inflectional phrase qualities in different languages. Some languages show a very different surface verbal inflection, providing evidence of a different mental processing at the semantic level. In fact, the inflectional phrase is a great representative of the mental and sema
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Chovancová, Katarína, Lucia Ráčková, Dagmar Veselá, and Monika Zázrivcová. "Valency Potential of Slovak and French Verbs in Contrast." Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis 68, no. 2 (2017): 156–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2017-0026.

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Abstract The paper presents results of synchronous contrastive study of fifteen most frequent Slovak full verbs and their French equivalents by the method of corpus analysis aimed at observation and comparison of their valency potential in relation to their semantic structure. The inventory of valency structures of Slovak verbs and their French equivalents shows not only differences, but also, to a great extent, identical semantic-syntactic connectivities. The main apport of the study lies in the contrastive research perspective and the interdisciplinary character on the crossroads of grammar,
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Jackendoff, Ray. "Précis of Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution,." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26, no. 6 (2003): 651–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x03000153.

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The goal of this study is to reintegrate the theory of generative grammar into the cognitive sciences. Generative grammar was right to focus on the child's acquisition of language as its central problem, leading to the hypothesis of an innate Universal Grammar. However, generative grammar was mistaken in assuming that the syntactic component is the sole course of combinatoriality, and that everything else is “interpretive.” The proper approach is a parallel architecture, in which phonology, syntax, and semantics are autonomous generative systems linked by interface components. The parallel arc
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Sambre, Paul. "Framing from grammar to application." Framing 24 (December 10, 2010): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/bjl.24.00int.

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This thematic issue of the BJL presents eight contributions on the notion of framing, ranging from theoretical to applied perspectives, and reflecting a range of issues on lexico-grammatical and discourse issues. More than forty years after Charles Fillmore’s (1968, 1977) seminal work on case grammar, the general objective of this volume is to show the vividness of the linguistic debate which arose out of Fillmore’s frame semantics. We do so both by bringing together a range of empirical materials reaching from strictly grammatical and lexical to discourse patterns, and by stimulating discussi
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DE WIT, ASTRID, and FRANK BRISARD. "A Cognitive Grammar account of the semantics of the English present progressive." Journal of Linguistics 50, no. 1 (2013): 49–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226713000169.

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In this paper, we propose a unified account of the semantics of the English present progressive in the form of a semantic network, basing ourselves on the theoretical principles and analytical tools offered by the theory of Cognitive Grammar, as laid out by Langacker (1987, 1991). The core meaning of the English present progressive, we claim, is to indicateepistemic contingencyin the speaker's immediate reality. It thus contrasts with the simple present, which is associated with situations that are construed asstructurallybelonging to reality. On the basis of a study of the Santa Barbara Corpu
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Peng, Yanghua. "On the Coordinate Expression “A and B” from the Perspective of Cognitive Grammar." International Journal of English Linguistics 11, no. 3 (2021): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v11n3p33.

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The coordinate expression of “A and B” formed by the coordinate conjunction “and” shows a variety of syntactic features and semantic relations. Based on the research of scholars at home and abroad the paper argues that the cognitive grammatical research outweighs other theoretical views on the researches of the internal motivations of complex phenomena. It further points out that A and B are parallel in grammar and semantics，and “A and B” is polysemous.
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Dempster, Douglas. "Is there Even a Grammar of Music ?" Musicae Scientiae 2, no. 1 (1998): 55–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/102986499800200104.

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Does the music that we know have a language-like semantics? I argue that mere agreement among auditors about their cognitive representations and descriptions of music doesn't give grounds for attributing meaning to music. I also argue that music does not have a language-like semantics not because it fails to be robustly referential, but because musical structures are not genuine grammars. The reason is that while music typically has very elaborate and regular structures - much like language - these structures do not apparently originate from nor are they in the service of the need to encode me
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Hollmann, Willem B. "Nouns and verbs in Cognitive Grammar: Where is the ‘sound’ evidence?" Cognitive Linguistics 24, no. 2 (2013): 275–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cog-2013-0009.

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AbstractFormalist approaches traditionally define word classes in distributional terms. By contrast, Cognitive Grammar advocates a semantic basis: nouns profile THINGS; verbs highlight PROCESSES. There is psycholinguistic support for the importance of semantics in lexical categorisation, but also for (language-particular) distributional and phonological properties. This paper focuses on phonology, whose importance is further underlined by data from language change and typology. Following a review of the psycholinguistic, historical linguistic and typological evidence, a gap in the literature i
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Waszakowa, Krystyna. "Wieloaspektowość pojęcia konceptualizacja w gramatyce Ronalda Langackera (spojrzenie z perspektywy użytkownika terminologii kognitywnej)." LingVaria, no. 1(29) (May 16, 2020): 9–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/lv.15.2020.29.01.

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MULTIASPECTUALITY OF THE NOTION OF CONCEPTUALIZATION IN RONALD LANGACKER’S GRAMMAR: FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A USER OF COGNITIVE TERMINOLOGY
 The paper presents the scope of understanding of the notion of conceptualization, a notion that belongs to the elementary toolbox of R. Langacker’s cognitive grammar. The author shows the different perspectives of viewing conceptualization, and discusses ways of defining the term. By contrasting it with other terms from the paradigm of cognitive semantics (among others, categorization, construal, profiling, conceptualizer, spekaer, addressee, usage e
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Tyler, Andrea, Charles M. Mueller, and Vu Ho. "Applying cognitive linguistics to instructed L2 learning." AILA Review 23 (December 9, 2010): 30–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aila.23.03tyl.

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This paper reports the results of a quasi-experimental effects-of-instruction study examining the efficacy of applying a Cognitive Linguistic (CL) approach to L2 learning of the semantics of English modals. In spite of their frequency in typical input, modal verbs present L2 learners with difficulties, party due to their inherent complexity — modals typically have two divergent senses — a root1 sense and an epistemic sense. ELT textbooks and most grammar books aimed at L2 teachers present the two meanings as homophones, failing to address any systematic semantic patterning in the modal system
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Fischer, Kerstin. "Beyond the sentence." Constructions and Frames 2, no. 2 (2010): 185–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cf.2.2.03fis.

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Construction grammarians are still quite reluctant to extend their descriptions to units beyond the sentence. However, the theoretical premises of construction grammar and frame semantics are particularly suited to cover spoken interaction from a cognitive perspective. Furthermore, as construction grammar is anchored in the cognitive linguistics paradigm and as such subscribes to meaning being grounded in experience, it needs to consider interaction since grammatical structures may be grounded not only in sensory-motor, but also in social-interactive experience. The example of grounded languag
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Almeida, Marta. "Verbs of Motion: The Implications of Cognitive Semantics in Teaching Grammar." Hispania 85, no. 3 (2002): 609. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4141150.

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Schneider, Nathan. "Computational Cognitive Morphosemantics: Modeling Morphological Compositionality in Hebrew Verbs with Embodied Construction Grammar." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 36, no. 1 (2010): 353. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v36i1.3923.

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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt:This paper brings together the theoretical framework of construction grammar and studies of verbs in Modern Hebrew to furnish an analysis integrating the form and meaning components of morphological structure. In doing so, this work employs and extends Embodied Construction Grammar (ECG; Bergen and Chang 2005), a computational formalism developed to study grammar from a cognitive linguistic perspective. In developing a formal analysis of Hebrew verbs (section 3), I adapt ECG—until now a lexical/syntactic/semantic formalism—to account for the comp
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Torres-Martínez, Sergio. "Working out multiword verbs within an Applied Cognitive Construction Grammar framework." European Journal of Applied Linguistics 5, no. 1 (2017): 55–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/eujal-2016-0003.

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AbstractThis article presents a constructionist approach to the teaching of multiword verbs. To that end, I outline a pedagogical model, Applied Cognitive Construction Grammar (ACCxG), which is deemed to provide insight into a novel classification of multiword verbs as constructions (form-function pairings). The ACCxG framework integrates four cognitively-driven rationales, namely Focus on Form, Task-based Language Teaching, Data-driven Learning, and Paper-based Data-Driven Learning. It is argued that the syntax-semantics of multiword verbs can be better understood through recourse to their re
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Toan, Ly Ngoc. "Lexical Expressions of Path Motion in Vietnamese: A Perspective from Cognitive Linguistics." International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 1, no. 1 (2019): 14–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v1i1.25.

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The aim of this paper is to study the semantics and syntax of lexical expressions of path motion in Vietnamese. This paper is conducted on theory of lexicalization patterns which is related to the conflation of semantic components into linguistic units. The data are the expressions of motion verbs and spatial prepositions which were taken from 12 Vietnamese stories and three novels in the 20th century onward. The result of this paper presents several lexicalization patterns of semantic components conflated into the path verbs and the spatial prepositions. Moreover, this paper takes into accoun
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Formigari, Lia. "Modelli del pensare metaforico." PARADIGMI, no. 1 (May 2009): 15–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/para2009-001002.

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- Thought Through an apparently uniform development starting from Aristotle's argumentation theory, more or less strong versions of the cognitive import of metaphor have been advanced. A first turning point can be summarized as the move from external to internal representation (17th and 18th centuries), when metaphor came to be seen, not as an optional linguistic device, but as a necessary modality of categorization, a form of conceptualization complementary to abstraction and, as such, as a primary principle of lexical semantics. A second turning point is still under way. Post-Chomskyan seman
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Välimaa-Blum, Riitta. "The English bare plural and the Finnish partitive." Languages in Contrast 3, no. 2 (2001): 181–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lic.3.2.03val.

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To understand the use of a grammatical form in one language, it is sometimes helpful to look at another language. In this paper, I propose that the English bare plural expresses nonbounded quantity in a mental space, just as the Finnish bare partitive does. The different formal means used by English and Finnish thus converge in the cognitive unity of the grammatical structuring of the lexical content. The bare plural is not the plural counterpart of the indefinite singular, that is, it does not express the discourse status of its referent, but rather, it belongs to the quantity domain. One of
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Rakhmankulova, Svetlana. "Cognitive Linguistics Approaches to Teaching Foreign Grammar." Nizhny Novgorod Linguistics University Bulletin, no. 49 (March 31, 2020): 86–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.47388/2072-3490/lunn2020-49-1-86-103.

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At the present time, foreign language instruction boasts a plethora of different methods and practices, with the communicative approach dominating the scene. Alongside innovative methods based on modern technologies, traditional structural methods still remain popular. The cognitive linguistics approach discussed in the paper is based on the advantages of the existing methods and seems to overcome their shortcomings. The article offers a review of Russian and foreign papers of the recent decades on the problem of integrating cognitive linguistics into theory and methodology of foreign language
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Evans, Vyvyan, and Andrea Tyler. "Applying cognitive linguistics to pedagogical grammar: the english prepositions of verticality." Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada 5, no. 2 (2005): 11–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1984-63982005000200002.

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In this paper, we illustrate the merit of applying insights from Cognitive Linguistics to pedagogical grammar. We do so by examining English prepositions, long assumed to be one of the most difficult areas of acquisition for second language learners. The approach to the semantics of English prepositions we present is that developed in Evans and Tyler (2004a, b, In prep.) and Tyler and Evans (2001a, 2003). This account offers the following insights: 1) the concepts encoded by prepositions are image-schematic in nature and thus have an embodied basis. In other words, prepositions are not appropr
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Welke, Klaus. "Bedeutung und Weltwissen in der Konstruktionsgrammatik. Holistik oder Modularität?" Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik 49, no. 2 (2021): 369–415. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zgl-2021-2030.

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Abstract Empirical and theoretical arguments are presented against a framesemantic grounding of construction grammar and thus against a holistic unification of meaning and world knowledge. A modular conception is the basis of the interplay between construction and projection in Goldberg (1995). Goldberg’s attempt to include frame semantics is at odds with this foundation and must be considered a failure. The same is true for the continuation by Boas (2003). The argumentation is supplemented, among other things, by the reference to the contrast of a perceptual system and a linguistic system of
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Gisborne, Nikolas. "The semantics of definite expressions and the grammaticalization of THE." Theory and data in cognitive linguistics 36, no. 3 (2012): 603–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.36.3.06gis.

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This paper explores the claim that definite expressions involve universal and existential quantification from the point of view of Word Grammar, in order to establish whether the quantificational view of definiteness is compatible with a particular cognitive theory of language, and to see how it compares with the familiarity treatment of definiteness. It is argued that the quantificational approach is superior to the familiarity approach in the analysis of a number of linguistic phenomena, and a number of Word Grammar analyses are presented. The paper concludes with an investigation into the g
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Shi, Yuzhi. "Rule and Construction: The Transitivity of Resultatives in English." Cognitive Semantics 6, no. 1 (2020): 107–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23526416-00502005.

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The resultative construction has been one of the focuses in exploring the interfaces between semantics and syntax. In the generativist tradition, constructions are regarded as the surface structures that are generated by a set of phrasal rules. In cognitive linguistics, especially the approach of construction grammar, constructions are viewed as the fixed pairings of forms and meanings that are regarded as symbolic like lexical items. This article argues that constructions are schemas determined by certain rules, and a set of subconstructions may be produced by a base construction. The article
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Sullivan, Karen. "Integrating constructional semantics and conceptual metaphor." Constructions and Frames 8, no. 2 (2016): 141–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cf.8.2.02sul.

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Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) aims to represent the conceptual structure of metaphors rather than the structure of metaphoric language. The theory does not explain which aspects of metaphoric language evoke which conceptual structures, for example. However, other theories within cognitive linguistics may be better suited to this task. These theories, once integrated, should make building a unified model of both the conceptual and linguistic aspects of metaphor possible. First, constructional approaches to syntax provide an explanation of how particular constructional slots are associated wi
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Andreyeva, Tetyana. "Communicative grammar in modern Ukrainian linguodidactics." Actual issues of Ukrainian linguistics: theory and practice, no. 37 (2018): 141–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/apultp.2018.37.141-156.

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This article examines the notion of communicative grammar in its relations with the Ukrainian linguodidactics. This problem is related to the language competence, which serves as a component of communicative competence. The present stage of studying the numerous problems of linguistics is characterized by the fact that they are considered in a cognitive-communicative perspective. The fact of the establishment of a cognitive-communicative paradigm in modern linguistics leads to the foreground of the study, which uses the functional description of the language system and its constructive units.
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Shreves, Wyley B., William Hart, John M. Adams, Rosanna E. Guadagno, and Cassie A. Eno. "The complex interplay between semantics and grammar in impression formation." Cognition 132, no. 3 (2014): 455–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.05.007.

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Stjernfelt, Frederik. "We Can't Go On Meeting Like This." Nordic Journal of Linguistics 18, no. 2 (1995): 121–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0332586500000135.

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The article investigates the meeting between linguistics and literary theory under the auspices of cognitive grammar. First, it places this recent meeting in contrast to the relation between the two under structuralism; second, it sketches the philosophical foundations of cognitive linguistics in a series of related ideal types, such as cognitivism, diagrammatism, gestaltism, phenomenology, etc.; third, it investigates the literary theory of cognitive semantics in Lakoff and Turner's More Than Cool Reason as a background for some critical remarks.
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Zhabotynska, S. "SEMANTICS OF LINGUAL NETWORKS IN AN EDUCATIONAL COMBINATORY THESAURUS." Studia Philologica, no. 2 (2019): 17–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2311-2425.2019.13.3.

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A cognitive turn in contemporary methodologies of teaching foreign languages is primarily associated with employment of the brain / mind covert potential (memory capacities, emotional responses, particulars of the individual’s perceptions, etc.) in language learning. Meanwhile, the cognitive approach to language teaching takes little notice of such powerful tool as conceptual structures that underpin linguistic structures and, therefore, facilitate their understanding and acquisition. The nature of relations between linguistic and conceptual structures is focused on in Semantics of Lingual Net
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Thal, Donna J., Elizabeth Bates, Mary Jane Zappia, and Melinda Oroz. "Ties between lexical and grammatical development: evidence from early-talkers." Journal of Child Language 23, no. 2 (1996): 349–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000900008837.

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ABSTRACTCase studies are presented for two linguistically precocious children (early-talkers) aged 1;9 and 1;5, one of whom represents a striking dissociation between vocabulary size and mean length of utterance. Each early-talker is compared to controls in the same language stage; 10 in Early Stage I (mean age 1; 7) and 10 in Stage II (mean age 2; 3). Data are explored to determine if the dissociation is best characterized as one between grammar and semantics, or a difference in cognitive style. Results showed that the child who used mostly single words produced high proportions of predicates
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Dobrosz-Michiewicz, Karolina. "The Structure of Ambiguity Phenomena (Based on Cognitive Analyses of the Ways in Which Politicians Communicate)." Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica 35, no. 5 (2017): 75–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1505-9057.35.06.

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The paper presents the ambiguity phenomena in terms of cognitive categorization and blending processes. The analyses of politicians’ programme speeches, based on Lakoff’s and Langacker’s semantics and Langacker’s grammar research, result in describing the ambiguity phenomena as sender’s or receiver’s mental concepts rather than relating it to linguistic properties of the message. Moreover, a cognitive point of view in the research on ambiguity reveals its multilevelled structure, which stems from the polysemic nature of mental categories and blends.
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Stanojcic, Zivojin. "Semantics, analogy and alternation capacity of syntactic structures." Juznoslovenski filolog, no. 69 (2013): 245–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/jfi1369245s.

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Departing from examples found in the language of Njegos and later writers from a broader area, and on the theoretical premises of cognitive linguistics as well as on transformational grammar methodology, author is discussing the syntactic and semantic elements that enable the alternations of conjunctions gde, sto, kako and da - mutually and with other dependent clauses conjunctions the semantic basis of which are the notions ?cause?, ?space?, ?manner of an action? and ?object of an action?. According to author, in the given process, with inner linguistic semantic and analogical factors, the id
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Langacker, Ronald W. "The English present tense." English Language and Linguistics 5, no. 2 (2001): 251–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674301000235.

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It is generally agreed that the English ‘present tense’ is not appropriately analyzed as indicating present time: present-time events often cannot be expressed in the present tense; conversely, the present tense is often used for nonpresent occurrences. I will argue, however, that these problems are only apparent, arising from a failure to appreciate the numerous conceptual factors that are crucially involved. When these are properly elucidated, using notions available in cognitive semantics and cognitive grammar, the characterization ‘coincidence with the time of speaking’ proves remarkably a
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TAYLOR, NICOLE, WILBERTA DONOVAN, SALLY MILES, and LEWIS LEAVITT. "Maternal control strategies, maternal language usage and children's language usage at two years." Journal of Child Language 36, no. 2 (2008): 381–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000908008969.

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ABSTRACTThe present study determined whether parenting style, defined by control strategies varying in power-assertion mediated the established relation between maternal language usage (grammar and semantics) and child language (grammar, semantics and pragmatics) during toddlerhood (n=60). Based upon their use of control strategies mothers were categorized into continuum-of-control groups (i.e. high guidance (HG), high control (HC) or high negative control (HNC)). Mothers in the high negative control group, who characteristically used high levels of prohibitions and commands, had children who
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MAGNE, CYRILLE, MIREILLE BESSON, and STÉPHANE ROBERT. "Context influences the processing of verb transitivity in French sentences: more evidence for semantic−syntax interactions." Language and Cognition 6, no. 2 (2014): 181–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2014.7.

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abstractThe influence of semantic context on verb argument structure processing was investigated in two experiments using both ERP and behavioral measures. Participants were presented with sentences ending with syntactically and/or semantically congruous or incongruous noun phrases and they were asked to judge the overall acceptability of the sentences. Syntactically incongruous sentences contained an intransitive verb followed by a direct object (e.g., *L’ennemi a conspiré (INTR) un complot *‘The enemy conspired a scheme’). In line with our hypothesis, results showed that the processing of sy
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Corballis, Michael C. "On Phrase Structure and Brain Responses: A Comment on Bahlmann, Gunter, and Friederici (2006)." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 19, no. 10 (2007): 1581–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2007.19.10.1581.

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Bahlmann et al. (2006) reported an experiment on event-related brain potentials of sequences of syllables obeying two rules, one defined by AnBn and the other by (AB)n, where the As and Bs are different classes of syllables. They interpreted their findings on the assumption that AnBn are parsed according a center-embedded phrase-structure grammar. In fact, such sequences are much more likely to be parsed in terms of the repetition of element types, without reference to phrase structure. This raises a general issue about attempting to study syntactic processing independently of semantics.
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Roitto, Rikard. "The Polyvalence of ἀφίημι and the Two Cognitive Frames of Forgiveness in the Synoptic Gospels". Novum Testamentum 57, № 2 (2015): 136–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685365-12341489.

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Depending on whether God or a human is the forgiving agent in the Synoptic Gospels (and beyond), the verb valence of ἀφίημι, “forgive,” differs in several ways. The present article argues that the differences are reflections in linguistic conventions of the cognition that only God can remove the substance of sin, while both God and humans can remit the moral debt of sin. Construction grammar, a linguistic theory which assumes that syntax and semantics are inseparable, is used in the analysis. Theological implications are discussed.
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Levshina, Natalia. "Anybody (at) home? Communicative efficiency knocking on the Construction Grammar door." Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 6, no. 1 (2018): 71–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/gcla-2018-0004.

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Abstract The present study focuses on the locative adverbials home and at home, which are interchangeable in some contexts, e.g. She decided to stay (at) home today. Using data from the spoken component of COCA and different multivariate statistical techniques, such as conditional inference trees and dichotomous logistic regression, I investigate the differences between home and at home with regard to several contextual variables, such as the syntactic function of (at) home, the presence of particular adverbs, e.g. back (at) home, figurativeness of semantics and the presence of presupposed arr
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Vandenberghe, R., A. C. Nobre, and C. J. Price. "The Response of Left Temporal Cortex to Sentences." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 14, no. 4 (2002): 550–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/08989290260045800.

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The meaning of a sentence differs from the sum of the meanings of its constituents. Left anterior temporal cortex responds to sentences more strongly than to unconnected words. We hypothesized that the anterior temporal response to sentences is due to this difference in meaning (compositional semantics). Using positron emission tomography (PET), we studied four experimental conditions (2 × 2 factorial design): In one condition, subjects read normal sentences. In a second condition, they read grammatically correct sentences containing numerous semantic violations (semantically random sentences)
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Andrighetto, Giulia. "Universali linguistici e categorie grammaticali." PARADIGMI, no. 2 (July 2009): 113–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/para2009-002010.

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- In this paper I explore the consistency of an idea of language structures as both universal in their nature and empirical in their genesis. To this aim, I assume the theory of the parts of speech as a case study. I proceed from a brief historical reconstruction of 20th-century theories of grammatical categories to an analysis of the semantics of the parts of speech, with particular emphasis on Ronald Langacker's philosophy of grammar. Finally I focus on the theory of prepositions in order to explore the relations between language and perception and the function of perceptual schemas at the b
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Cienki, Alan. "The Semantics of Possessive and Spatial Constructions in Russian and Bulgarian: A Comparative Analysis in Cognitive Grammar." Slavic and East European Journal 39, no. 1 (1995): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/308693.

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Horsch, Jakob. "VIDÍŠ TÝM LEPŠIE, ČÍM BLIŽŠIE SA POZERÁŠ SLOVAK COMPARATIVE CORRELATIVE CC' CONSTRUCTIONS FROM A CONSTRUCTION GRAMMAR PERSPECTIVE." Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis 71, no. 1 (2020): 25–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2020-0010.

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Abstract The Slovak Comparative Correlative (CC) construction has received little attention, although it is interesting regarding both its semantics and its form: As discussed in Horsch (2019), CCs are characterized by their complex symmetric (parallel change over time) and asymmetric (cause-effect) semantics, which are encoded in a biclausal structure in which each clause consists of a combination of fixed material and obligatory/optional slots. Typically, the first clause (C1) encodes a cause/protasis, and precedes the second clause (C2), which encodes an effect/apodosis: [čím bližšie sa poz
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Джарбо Сaмер Омар. "The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface: The Case of the Singular Feminine Demonstrative in Jordanian Arabic." East European Journal of Psycholinguistics 4, no. 1 (2017): 63–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.29038/eejpl.2017.4.1.jar.

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The aim in this study is to investigate the interface between semantics and pragmatics in relation to the use of the indexical demonstrative ‘haay’ ‘this-S.F.’ in Jordanian Arabic (JA). It is argued here that an analysis of meaning in relation to context-sensitivity inherent in the use of ‘haay’ can give evidence to the view that semantic and pragmatic processes can be distinguished from each other. I have found that the meaning of ‘haay’ consists of three distinct levels: linguistic, semantic, and pragmatic meaning. The denotational and conventional senses of ‘haay’ comprise its linguistic me
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Dragicevic, Rajna. "On nouns functioning as prepositions." Juznoslovenski filolog, no. 68 (2012): 91–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/jfi1268091d.

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This paper analyzes semantic transformations of nouns functioning as prepositions. The semantic characteristics of prepositions are discussed, and Belic? concept of adverbial origin and meaning of prepositions is reviewed. Contrary to usual perception that prepositions have mere grammatical meaning, it is concluded in this paper that they also have lexical meaning, like adverbs. Cognitive linguistics has so far dealt with lexical meanings of prepositions, and it is up to contemporary semantics to further explore and evolve this approach. Based on this fact that prepositions have lexical meanin
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BRISARD, FRANK. "Be going to: an exercise in grounding." Journal of Linguistics 37, no. 2 (2001): 251–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226701008866.

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This paper investigates the semantics of be going to, starting from a schematic definition which interprets temporal meanings in terms of referential and epistemological attributes. The analysis is framed within the model of cognitive grammar, taking deictic syntactical constructions as instances of grounding predications and differences between them as triggered by aspects of construal and profiling. On the basis of corpus material from American and British English texts, it is concluded that be going to features a paradoxical but pragmatically plausible interpretation of the future as non-gi
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