Cognitive Phonology In Construction Grammar
Download Cognitive Phonology In Construction Grammar full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Cognitive Phonology In Construction Grammar ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Cognitive Phonology in Construction Grammar
Author | : Riitta Välimaa-Blum |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2011-12-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110920598 |
Download Cognitive Phonology in Construction Grammar Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This textbook is an accessible introduction to both English phonology and phonology in general. It analyzes some central phenomena of the sound system of two standard varieties of English, Southern British English and General American. The framework adopted is Cognitive Linguistics and Construction Grammar, and this entails in particular that all the elements of the sound system are tightly interwoven with the meaningful units: morphemes, words, phrases and sentences. The book contains chapters on articulatory phonetics, sounds and meaning, alternation patterns, word stress and intonation. Each chapter ends with an invitation to analyze English and other languages with the tools of Cognitive Linguistics. The book is designed for students as well as teachers of English and linguistics, and while the target readership should already have a background in linguistics, a beginner in phonology will find all the basic concepts clearly defined.
Phonology
Author | : Geoffrey S. Nathan |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027219077 |
Download Phonology Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This textbook introduces the reader to the field of phonology, from allophones to faithfulness and exemplars. It assumes no prior knowledge of the field, and includes a brief review chapter on phonetics. It is written within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, but covers a wide range of historical and contemporary theories, from the Prague School to Optimality Theory. While many examples are based on American and British English, there are also discussions of some aspects of French and German colloquial speech and phonological analysis problems from many other languages around the world. In addition to the basics of phoneme theory, features, and morphophonemics there are chapters on casual speech, first and second language acquisition and historical change. A final chapter covers a number of issues in contemporary phonological theory, including some of the classic debates in Generative Phonology (rule ordering, abstractness, 'derivationalism') and proposals for usage-based phonologies.
Construction Grammars
Author | : Jan-Ola Östman,Mirjam Fried |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2005-02-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027294708 |
Download Construction Grammars Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The notion ‘construction’ has become indispensable in present-day linguistics and in language studies in general. This volume extends the traditional domain of Construction Grammar (CxG) in several directions, all with a cognitive basis. Addressing a number of issues (such as coercion, discourse patterning, language change), the contributions show how CxG must be part and parcel of cognitively oriented studies of language, including language universals. The volume also gives informative accounts of how the notion ‘construction’ is developed in approaches that are conceptually close to, and relatively compatible with, CxG: Conceptual Semantics, Word Grammar, Cognitive Grammar, Embodied Construction Grammar, and Radical Construction Grammar.
Cognitive Linguistics A Survey of Linguistic Subfields
Author | : Ewa Dąbrowska,Dagmar Divjak |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2019-07-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110623154 |
Download Cognitive Linguistics A Survey of Linguistic Subfields Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The chapters provide comprehensive surveys of the major subfields of Cognitive Linguistics. Apart from phonology, construction grammar and lexical semantics, the areas of language use, language acquisition and literary discourse are comprehensively presented.
Applied Construction Grammar
Author | : Sabine De Knop,Gaëtanelle Gilquin |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2016-04-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110458268 |
Download Applied Construction Grammar Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Current research within the framework of Construction Grammar (CxG) has mainly adopted a theoretical or descriptive approach, neglecting the more applied perspective and especially the question of how language acquisition and pedagogy can benefit from a CxG-based approach. The present volume explores various aspects of “Applied Construction Grammar” through a collection of studies that apply CxG and CxG-inspired approaches to relevant issues in L2 acquisition and teaching. Relying on empirical data and covering a wide range of constructions and languages, the chapters show how the cross-fertilization of CxG and L2 acquisition/teaching can improve the description of learners’ use of constructions, provide theoretical insights into the processes underlying their acquisition (e.g. with reference to inheritance links or transfer from the L1), or lead to novel teaching practices and resources aimed to help learners make the generalizations that native speakers make naturally from the input they receive.
Abstract Phonology in a Concrete Model
Author | : Tore Nesset |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2008-09-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110208368 |
Download Abstract Phonology in a Concrete Model Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book is relevant for phonologists, morphologists, Slavists and cognitive linguists, and addresses two questions: How can the morphology-phonology interface be accommodated in cognitive linguistics? Do morphophonological alternations have a meaning? These questions are explored via a comprehensive analysis of stem alternations in Russian verbs. The analysis is couched in R.W. Langacker's Cognitive Grammar framework, and the book offers comparisons to other varieties of cognitive linguistics, such as Construction Grammar and Conceptual Integration. The proposed analysis is furthermore compared to rule-based and constraint-based approaches to phonology in generative grammar. Without resorting to underlying representations or procedural rules, the Cognitive Linguistics framework facilitates an insightful approach to abstract phonology, offering the important advantage of restrictiveness. Cognitive Grammar provides an analysis of an entire morphophonological system in terms of a parsimonious set of theoretical constructs that all have cognitive motivation. No ad hoc machinery is invoked, and the analysis yields strong empirical predictions. Another advantage is that Cognitive Grammar can identify the meaning of morphophonological alternations. For example, it is argued that stem alternations in Russian verbs conspire to signal non-past meaning. This book is accessible to a broad readership and offers a welcome contribution to phonology and morphology, which have been understudied in cognitive linguistics.
Extending the Scope of Construction Grammar
Author | : Ronny Boogaart,Timothy Colleman,Gijsbert Rutten |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2014-09-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110366273 |
Download Extending the Scope of Construction Grammar Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The field of constructionist linguistics is rapidly expanding, as research on a broad variety of language phenomena is increasingly informed by constructionist ideas about grammar. This volume is comprised of 11 original research articles representing several emerging new research directions in construction grammar, which, together, offer a rich picture of the various directions in which the field seems to be moving.
Constructionalization and Constructional Changes
Author | : Elizabeth Closs Traugott,Graeme Trousdale |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2013-11-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780191669491 |
Download Constructionalization and Constructional Changes Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale develop an approach to language change based on construction grammar. Construction grammar is a theory of signs construed at the level of the phrase, clause, and complex sentence. Until now it has been mainly synchronic. The authors use it to reconceptualize grammaticalization (the process by which verbs like to have lose semantic content and gain grammatical functions, or word order moves from discourse-prominent to syntax-prominent), and lexicalization (in which idioms become fixed and complex words simplified). Basing their argument on the notions that language is made up of language-specific form-meaning pairings and that there is a gradient between lexical and grammatical constructions, Professor Traugott and Dr Trousdale suggest that language change proceeds by micro-steps that involve closely related changes in syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse functions. They illustrate their exposition with numerous English examples drawn from Anglo-Saxon times to the present, many of which they discuss in depth. The book is organized in six chapters. The first outlines the approach and the questions to be addressed. The second reviews usage-based models of language change. The third considers the relation between grammatical constructionalization and grammaticalization. Chapters 4 and 5 focus respectively on lexical constructionalization and the role of context. The final chapter draws the authors' arguments together and outlines prospects for further research. Constructionalization and Constructional Changes propounds and demonstrates a new and productive approach to historical linguistics.