Rudzka-Ostyn Brygida (ed.) Topics in Cognitive Linguistics

John Benjamins, 1988. — 721 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 50). — ISBN: 978-90-272-3544-9.Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in cognitive linguistics, a framework aiming at an adequate account of the relationship between language and cognition and as such involving human psychology, interpersonal relations, culture, and a host of other domains. Our purpose has been to present the theoretical premises of this framework and to explore its descriptive and explanatory potential with respect to a wide range of language phenomena. In pursuing this goal, we have frequently relied on corpus analyses, intensive field work, and other means of empirical verification. Crossing the boundaries of particular languages or language families has lent additional support to the findings emerging from our research.Toward a Coherent and Comprehensive Linguistic Theory
An Overview of Cognitive Grammar
A View of Linguistic Semantics
The Nature of Grammatical Valence
A Usage-Based Model
Aspects of a Multifaceted Research Program
The Relation of Grammar to Cognition
Where Does Prototypicality Come From?
The Natural Category MEDIUM: An Alternative to Selection Restrictions and Similar Constructs
Spatial Expressions and the Plasticity of Meaning
Contrasting Prepositional Categories: English and Italian
The Mapping of Elements of Cognitive Space onto Grammatical Relations: An Example from Russian Verbal Prefixation Conventionalization of Cora Locationals
The Conceptualisation of Vertical Space in English: The Case of Tall
Length, Width, and Potential Passing
On Bounding in Ik
A Discourse Perspective on Tense and Aspect in Standard Modern Greek and English
Semantic Extensions into the Domain of Verbal Communication
Spatial Metaphor in German Causative Constructions
Nahuatl Causative/Applicatives in Cognitive Grammar
A Historical Perspective
Grammatical Categories and Human Conceptualization: Aristotle and the Modistae
Cognitive Grammar and the History of Lexical Semantics