Investigations in cognitive grammar/

Main Author: Langacker, Ronald W.
Corporate Author: de Gruyter, Mouton
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York: Mouton de Gruyter, c2009
Series:Cognitive linguistics research ; 42
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Constructions in cognitive grammar
  • 2. Metonymy in grammar
  • 3. A constructional approach to grammaticization
  • 4. Possession, location, and existence
  • 5. On the subject of impersonals
  • 6. Enunciating the parallelism of nominal and clausal grounding
  • 7. The English present: temporal coincidence vs. epistemic immediacy
  • 8. A functional account of the English auxiliary
  • 9. Aspects of the grammar of finite clauses
  • 10. Finite complements in English
  • 11. Subordination in cognitive grammar
  • 12. The conceptual basis of coordination
  • References
  • Author index
  • Subject index