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Topic: Cognitive Grammar

	CRL Newsletter Article 4-3-1
		Grammar is therefore said to be symbolic in the specific sense that it reduces to form-meaning pairings.
		Nevertheless, cognitive grammar is not unreasonably viewed as representing the logical culmination of all the aforementioned trends, the kind of natural, unified, and restrictive theory that might emerge if they ran their full course and certain basic but erroneous assumptions were abandoned.
		Cognitive grammar is thus coherent and consistent in accepting the non-predictability of grammatical structure while nevertheless denying its autonomy.
	crl.ucsd.edu /newsletter/4-3/Article1.html (6664 words)

	Ling2-492E: Cognitive English Grammar (CEG) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Cognitive grammar is a model of linguistic description which combines conceptual categories and processes of the mind with linguistic form.
		Consequently, grammar is part of cognition and makes use of the same cognitive principles that govern all our cognitive processes such as perception and thought.
		Cognitive grammar accounts for both language structure and language use in an integrated fashion.
	www.enl.auth.gr /ling/cognitiv.htm (161 words)

	About Cognitive Linguistics
		Cognitive Linguistics grew out of the work of a number of researchers active in the 1970s who were interested in the relation of language and mind, and who did not follow the prevailing tendency to explain linguistic patterns by means of appeals to structural properties internal to and specific to language.
		For many cognitive linguists, the main interest in CL lies in its provision of a better-grounded approach to and set of theoretical assumptions for syntactic and semantic theory than generative linguistics provides.
		Cognitive linguistics conferences continue to be organized in many countries, to the extent that it is difficult to keep track of them all.
	www.cognitivelinguistics.org /cl.shtml (1559 words)

	Rosebrooke Teaching and Learning¦ Welcome
		Cognitive grammar is the study and practice of how thoughts are formed and developed to express and achieve critical understanding.
		Cognitive grammar compliments Chomsky's notion that a child's inborn knowledge of the principles of grammatical structure of all languages is the basis for the deep structure of the sentence and is the basis for the regulation of human thought.
		Cognitive grammar provides a way to integrate the teaching profession intellectually and operationally; it provides a way for students at all levels to fulfill their human potential.
	www.rosebrooke.com /Rosebrooke4_02-02-2002.html (2113 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on cognitive linguistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In linguistics and cognitive science, cognitive linguistics (CL) refers to the currently dominant school of linguistics that views the important essence of language as innately based in evolutionarily-developed and speciated faculties, and seeks explanations that advance or fit well into the current understandings of the human mind.
		Cognitive linguistics is divided into two main areas of study, which are currently being reunified, as linguists have grown to understand their mutual interdependence:
		A further complication arises because the terminology of cognitive linguistics is not entirely stable, both because it is a relatively new field and because it interfaces with a number of other disciplines.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/cognitive_linguistics (788 words)

	Does Cognitive Linguistics live up to its name?
		Cognitive Linguistics has come a long and arduous way, but it has an even longer and more arduous way to go: to increase its chances of real integration in and recognition by the cognitive science community at large, it must engage with this new form of God's truth, i.e.
		If there is one Cognitive Linguist who is widely known for having succeeded in capturing the biological reality not just to some extent, but (in my view) to a very considerable extent, and to present that reality, in its full complexity, to his fellow linguists in a relatively easy-to-follow way, it must be Sydney Lamb.
		Cognitive Linguists, for instance, rightly start from conceptual structures, which can be reflected in thousands of different ways in the languages of the world, where they are shaped in part by the building blocks of those languages.
	www.tulane.edu /~howard/LangIdeo/Peeters/Peeters.html (7508 words)

	CRL Newsletter Article 5-3
		A theory of language allowing a high degree of flexibility in the conceptual underpinnings of language, Cognitive Grammar, is used as a framework for explanations of non-conforming preposition use in Williams syndrome subjects.
		However, the strong claim is made in CG that the cognitive abilities that underlie semantic representation and language use are not essentially different in nature from other cognitive abilities of the human.
		All established cognitive routines are called units, whether they be individual units (a particular concept or a particular phonological form) or paired units, called symbolic units, in which a phonological form is associated with and symbolizes a semanticrepresentation.
	crl.ucsd.edu /newsletter/5-3/Article1.html (4763 words)

	Richard Strand's Nuristân Site: Cognitive Grammar
		A cognitive model by its nature has at its core a system of visual processing, and the model used here is convergent with current models developed by computer scientists to generate visual content from speech.
		It represents the cognitive model that a hearer constructs as he or she comprehends a speaker's utterances.
		Other morphemes trigger changes in the Cognitive Image that represent the speaker's mode of cognitive processing; that is, whether the image is drawn from current perception, recollection, or various forms of conceptualizaion.
	users.sedona.net /~strand/cogIm.html (864 words)

	Ling 105/CogSci 101
		Descriptive grammar: describe what people say, when and why they say it, and what it means.
		Grammar is the study of how words and morphemes combine in various patterns to be meaningful.
		Cognitive Grammar (CG) aims to achieve full coverage of the facts of language, including idioms, core, and peripheral constructions, therefore uses corpus data.
	www.icsi.berkeley.edu /~bbergen/mindlang/lecs/lec19.htm (680 words)

	Cognitive Linguistics - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Cognitive Linguistics argues that language is governed by general cognitive principles, rather than by a special-purpose language module.
		This introductory textbook surveys the field of cognitive linguistics as a distinct area of study, presenting its theoretical foundations and the arguments supporting it.
		The authors begin by explaining the conceptual structures and cognitive processes governing linguistic representation and behaviour, and go on to explore cognitive approaches to lexical semantics, as well as syntactic representation and analysis, focusing on the closely related frameworks of cognitive grammar and construction grammar.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?ISBN=0521661145 (245 words)

	Cognitive Linguistics: An Introductory Bibliography
		Explains that CL takes language as part of general cognition, but takes a strongly Cognitive Grammar view on syntax (the main difference between CL and GG concerns the rejection/acceptance of autonomous syntax) and implies that this is the same as the rejection of autonomous language.
		Grammar and lexicon are parts of a single unified system.
		Considers phonetics/phonology, semantics, grammar and pragmatics separately, showing for each how it is integrated within general cognition, and lacks specific modules.
	cogweb.ucla.edu /CogSci/CogLingLit.html (1068 words)

	Cognitive Grammar Syllabus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The interaction of folk models and syntax: Case choice after prepositional verbs of cognition in German (In Casad 1996, 837-866).
		Cognitive Linguistics in the Redwoods: the expansion of a new paradigm in linguistics.
		Langacker, Ronald W. An introduction to cognitive grammar.
	www.stanford.edu /~emaslova/Teaching/Cognitive.html (175 words)

	Amazon.ca: Cognitive Grammar: Books: John R. Taylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		'Cognitive Grammar' is is a theory of language which has been developing since the late 1970's.
		Underlying the theory is the assumption that language is inherently symbolic in nature and that a language provides its speakers with a set of resources for relating phonological structures with semantic structures.
		John R. Taylor introduces the theory of Cognitive Grammar, placing it in the context of current theoretical debates about the nature of linguistic knowledge, and relating it to more general trends in 'cognitive' linguistics.
	www.amazon.ca /Cognitive-Grammar-John-R-Taylor/dp/0198700334 (319 words)

	Cognitive grammar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Cognitive grammar is an influential cognitive approach to language developed since 1976 by Ronald Langacker.
		Cognitive grammar treats human languages as consisting solely of semantic units, phonological units, and symbolic units (conventional pairings of phonological and semantic units).
		Like construction grammar (developed by Langacker's student Adele Goldberg), and unlike many mainstream linguistic theories, cognitive grammar extends the notion of symbolic units to the grammar of languages.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Cognitive_grammar (231 words)

	LINGUIST List 5.477: Cognitive grammar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This is something that I think formalists and functionalists CAN agree on.* The claim of cognitive grammar, and I think, of functionalism in general---the controversial one that formalists take issue with---is that syntactic organization exists only by virtue of its being the form side of the form-meaning or symbolic organization of language.
		In cognitive grammar, the symbolic structures that [NOUN] and [PLURAL] are part of are the fundamental units of grammar; the form side is derivative of that.
		In cognitive grammar, syntax isn't reduced to phonology, nor to semantics; it is reduced to semiology, in the Saussurean sense of that term.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/5/5-477.html (946 words)

	New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		He is best known for his pioneering research on the relationship between grammar and cognition and for the theory of Cognitive Grammar, which he has developed.
		His central research interest is in the developmental relations between language, cognition and culture, and a main aim of his research is to integrate cognitive linguistic with socio-cultural approaches to language acquisition and development.
		He is the initiator of Project SCALA, which has pioneered a cognitive semantic-based approach to language acquisition and development, focussing on the cross-linguistic and cross-cultural study of the development of spatial language and cognition.
	www.cogling.org.uk /NDCL/PlenarySpeakers.htm (2142 words)

	LINGUIST List 2.27: International Cognitive Linguistics Assoc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Within cognitive linguistics, the analysis of the conceptual and experiential basis of linguistic categories and constructs is of primary importance: the formal structures of language are studied not as if they were autonomous, but as reflections of general conceptual organization, categorization principles, and processing mechanisms.
		Since cognitive linguistics sees language as making use of conceptual structure and general cognitive mechanisms, the following topics have been of special interest to cognitive linguists: -- Cognitive approaches to grammar (cognitive grammar, construction grammar, functional and discourse-based approaches to grammar).
		The journal, "Cognitive Linguistics," published by mouton de gruyter provides a forum for high-quality research on language from a cognitive perspective: as an instrument for organizing, processing, and conveying information.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/2/2-27.html (442 words)

	Linguist List - Book Information
		This research monograph develops and illustrates an innovative theory of linguistic structure, called "cognitive grammar", and applies it to representative phenomena in English and other languages.
		Cognitive grammar views language as an integral facet of cognition and claims that grammatical structure cannot be understood or revealingly described independently of semantic considerations.
		It argues that grammar forms a continuum with the lexicon and is reducible to symbolic relationships (i.e.
	linguistlist.org /pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=2352 (148 words)

	Precis of: Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution
		Generative grammar was correct to focus on the child's acquisition of language as its central problem, leading to the hypothesis of an innate Universal Grammar.
		Transferred into the mentalistic framework of 1965, the consequence of combinatoriality is that speakers of the language must have rules of language (or mental grammars) in their heads as part of their f-knowledge.
		An important reason for the spectacular reception of early generative grammar was that it went beyond merely claiming that language needs rules: it offered rigorous formal techniques for characterizing the rules, based on approaches to the foundations of mathematics and computability developed earlier in the century.
	www.bbsonline.org /Preprints/Jackendoff-07252002/Referees (8148 words)

	Cognitive Typology
		In the heydays of philosophical grammars, that is between say 1750 and 1850, it was rationalism, especially its variant in terms of Wolffian logicism that dominated the explanatory access to language.
		They are construed as a cognitive reality by human beings during the times of language acquisition in accordance with the linguistic knowledge of their instructors.
		Language systems and cognitive activities are thought to be structurally coupled on the basis of a mainly diachronic relationship that presupposes an adequate linguistic treatment of the data in question.
	www.lrz-muenchen.de /~wschulze/cog_typ.htm (5459 words)

	UCL Phonetics & Linguistics
		Word Grammar is a theory of language structure which Richard (= Dick) Hudson has been building since the early 1980's.
		As the latter title indicates, Chomsky's transformational grammar was very much `in the air', and both books accepted his goal of generative grammar but offered other ideas about sentence structure as alternatives to his mixture of function-free phrase structure plus transformations.
		Perhaps the most accessible source of detailed information is the Encyclopedia of English Grammar and Word Grammar, which is about 140 pages single-spaced including diagrams and can be used in hypertext mode.
	www.phon.ucl.ac.uk /home/dick/wg.htm (1262 words)

	Cognitive science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		With a limited set of grammar rules and a finite set of terms, man is able to produce an infinite number of sentences, including sentences nobody has ever said before.
		Minimalist Program) make strong claims regarding universal grammar — that the grammatical principles underlying languages are completely fixed and innate, and the differences among the world's languages can be characterized in terms of parameter settings in the brain (such as the
		Sometimes generative grammar analyses break down when applied to languages which have not previously been studied, and many changes in generative grammar have occurred due to an increase in the number of languages analysed.
	dks.thing.net /Cognitive_science.html (5883 words)

	LINGUIST List 5.461: Langacker's Cognitive Grammar, Locatives from temporals
		The relevant paragraph begins: > Langacker's Cognitive Grammar is unique in its attempt to > REDUCE syntax to abstract semantic patterns.
		Langacker characterizes a grammar as a "structured inventory of conventional linguistic units".
		It is a major problem for functionalist accounts of grammar, yet the only responses to it that I have seen all resort to Gesamtbedeugungen.
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/5/5-461.html (564 words)

	Cognitive Science - Grammar
		This is because we understand the rules, or the grammar, of our language.
		Prescriptive rules are rules that are developed and taught by teachers and grammar experts.
		People who use grammar correctly are considered to have linguistic competence.
	www.richmond.edu /~pli/teaching/psy333/ling_grammar.html (491 words)

	Cognitive linguistics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Conceptual semantics, pursued by generative linguist Ray Jackendoff is related because of its active psychological realism and the incorporation of prototype structure and images.
		Insights and developments from cognitive linguistics are becoming accepted ways of analysing literary texts, too.
		In the Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, Dirk Geeraerts and Herbert Cuyckens, eds., Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cognitive_linguistics (488 words)

	Book reviews
		Recent publications as well as unpublished dissertations from all areas of Cognitive Linguistics, or other areas of research that are relevant to Cognitive Linguistics, are welcome.
		A cognitive semantic analysis of causal verbs and causal connectives in Dutch.
		Key words: metaphor and metonymy, vantage theory, complex sentence, cognitive grammar, tense and aspect, discourse, subjectification, polysemy of prepositions.
	www.cognitivelinguistics.org /bookreviews.shtml (928 words)

	[No title]
		Traditional generative grammar accepted a closely interrelated group of assumptions or ideals, including (1) the expectation that grammars will consist of a relatively small number of absolutely true generalizations, from which (2) particular cases can be completely predicted.
		The Cognitive grammar model (CG, nèe Space grammar, Langacker 1981, 1987a, 1987b, etc.; To appear is especially relevant) provides an alternative viewpoint.
		CG claims that, to the extent that that similarity is perceived and conventionalized by speakers of the language, it, as embodied in a schema, is part of the grammar of that language.
	www.sil.org /~tuggyd/Scarecrow/SCARECRO.htm (6369 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 84051300
		The central claim of cognitive grammar is that grammar forms a continuum with lexicon and is fully describable in terms of symbolic units (i.e.
		In contrast to current orthodoxy, the author argues that grammar is not autonomous with respect to semantics, but rather reduces to patterns for the structuring and symbolization of conceptual content.
		This volume suggests how to use the theoretical tools presented in Volume 1, applying cognitive grammar to a broad array of representative grammatical phenomena, primarily (but by no means exclusively) drawn from English.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cam022/84051300.html (162 words)

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