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Word Grammar, Cognition and Dependency -

Word Grammar, Cognition and Dependency

Buch | Hardcover
333 Seiten
2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-316-51706-2 (ISBN)
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Based on a range of novel theoretical positions and case studies, this book explores the key ideas of Word Grammar when applied to different levels of language, typologically different languages and language change. It is essential reading for researchers and students interested in English syntax, morphology, phonology and linguistic theory.
Established in the early 1980s, Word Grammar is the first theory of grammar that was cast in the terms of cognitive linguistics. This book surveys the groundbreaking contribution of WG to a number of disciplines both within and outside of linguistics. It illustrates the benefits of thinking beyond traditional phrase-structural notions of syntax, and beyond encapsulated theories of cognition, by exploring how key problems in theoretical linguistics and historical linguistics can be approached from alternative perspectives. It provides examples of how theoretical linguistic notions and constructs of WG can be applied to bilingual language use, as well as a variety of typologically different languages including English, Chinese, German and Swedish. It also explores the relationship between language and social cognition and dependency distance as a universal measure of syntactic complexity. It is essential reading for linguists seeking creative ideas on how to advance explanations of language, language variation and change.

Eva M. Duran Eppler is a Reader in Linguistics at the University of Roehampton. She is chair of the Committee for Linguistics in Education. Notable publications include English Words and Sentences (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Nikolas Gisborne is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Notable publications include The Event Structure of Perception Verbs (OUP, 2010) and Ten Lectures on Events in a Network Theory of Language (Brill, 2020). And Rosta is Senior Lecturer of English Linguistics at the University of Central Lancashire.

Introduction Nikolas Gisborne, Eva Duran Eppler and And Rosta; 1. Word Grammar in its intellectual contexts Nikolas Gisborne and Stefan Müller; 2. Raising in phonology And Rosta; 3. Grammar change in the network Nikolas Gisborne; 4. Word formation change in Word Grammar: two case studies Graeme Trousdale; 5. The metaphorical bases of constituency and dependency András Imrényi; 6. From social psychology to cognitive sociolinguistics: the self-serving bias and interplay with gender and modesty in language use Willem B. Hollmann; 7. Hudson on heads: about distributional criteria Sylvain Kahane; 8. Ordinary French Houses: Revisiting the Dependency vs. Phrase Structure Debate Timothy Osborne; 9. Dependency grammar and subordination Jackie Nordström; 10. Verb phrases as attributive nominal modifiers Bas Aarts; 11. Testing the predictions of word grammar, the minimalist programme and the matrix language frame model for German/English mixed determiner–noun constructions Eva Duran Eppler, Adrian Luescher and Margaret Deuchar; 12. Factors Influencing Dependency Distance: An Account of the MDD Variation between Chinese and English Ruochen Niu and Haitao Liu.

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Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-316-51706-3 / 1316517063
ISBN-13 978-1-316-51706-2 / 9781316517062
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