Kreyer Rolf. The Nature of Rules, Regularities and Units in Language: A Network Model of the Language System and of Language Use

Walter de Gruyter, 2014. — x, 292 pages. — (Cognitive Linguistics Research). — ISBN: 978-3-11-031871-5.The model of language suggested in the present study is in line with the general claims underlying the models suggested by Hudson and others. It follows the Network Postulate, in that it understands language to be a network and nothing but a network. However, the present study wants to take the network idea one step further. The appeal of network models lies in the fact that the brain itself consists of a network of nerve cells and links between these nerve cells. Network models seem to be inherently closer to a possible psychological or neurophysiological reality and, hence, more cognitively plausibleA cognitively plausible network model of the language system
Units, classes, structures and rules – language data and linguistic modelling
‘Traditional’ concepts and their representation in the network model
Cognitive schemas
Beyond grammar: language use and the network
Outlook and conclusion