Cognitive (Construction) Grammar
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Ronald W. Langacker
Abstract
Goldberg overstates the differences between Cognitive Grammar and Cognitive Construction Grammar. The former does not claim that a clause invariably inherits its profile from the verb; it has merely been suggested that the latter's preference for monosemy may have been pushed too far. The matter can only be addressed given a specific definition of what is meant in saying that a verb “has” a certain sense. Also, the schematic meanings proposed in Cognitive Grammar for basic grammatical notions do not imply a “reductionist” or “essentialist” view based on classical categorization. Instead they complement the characterization of these notions as “metageneralizations over construction-specific categories”, which otherwise begs the question of why the distributional patterns supporting such generalizations should be observed in the first place.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Cognitive Linguistics comes of age
- ‘Caused motion’? The semantics of the English to-dative and the Dutch aan-dative
- Fictive dynamicity, nominal aspect, and the Finnish copulative construction
- The role of gesture in crossmodal typological studies
- The nature of generalization in language
- Constructions at work or at rest?
- On Subject-Auxiliary Inversion and the notion “purely formal generalization”
- The case of the missing generalizations
- Constructions and generalizations
- Cognitive (Construction) Grammar
- Constructions on holiday
- Developing constructions
- Constructions work
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Cognitive Linguistics comes of age
- ‘Caused motion’? The semantics of the English to-dative and the Dutch aan-dative
- Fictive dynamicity, nominal aspect, and the Finnish copulative construction
- The role of gesture in crossmodal typological studies
- The nature of generalization in language
- Constructions at work or at rest?
- On Subject-Auxiliary Inversion and the notion “purely formal generalization”
- The case of the missing generalizations
- Constructions and generalizations
- Cognitive (Construction) Grammar
- Constructions on holiday
- Developing constructions
- Constructions work
