
By Stefan Th. Gries,Anatol Stefanowitsch
Cognitive Linguistics, the department of linguistics that attempts to "make one's account of human language accord with what's often recognized concerning the brain and the brain," has turn into essentially the most flourishing fields of latest linguistics. The chapters deal with many vintage issues of Cognitive Linguistics. those issues comprise reports at the semantics of particular phrases (including polysemy and synonymy) in addition to semantic features of specific syntactic styles / buildings (including constructional synonymy and the schematicity of constructions), the research of causatives, transitivity, and image-schematic points of posture verbs.
the most important attribute of this quantity is that every one papers undertake the methodological viewpoint of Corpus Linguistics, the speedily evolving department of linguistics according to the automatic research of language utilized in genuine settings. hence, the contributionsdo not just all offer quite a few new insights of their respective fields, additionally they introduce new info in addition to new corpus-based and quantitative tools of study. at the foundation in their findings, the authors speak about either theoretical implications going way past the singular issues of the experiences and express how the self-discipline of Cognitive Linguistics can enjoy the rigorous research of naturally-occurring language. The languages that are investigated are English, German, Dutch, and Russian, and the information come from various diversified corpora. As such, the current volumewill be of curiosity to quite a lot of students with many alternative foci and pursuits and will pave the way in which for additional integration of usage-based ideas of study inside this intriguing paradigm.
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