A01=Ronald W. Langacker
Author_Ronald W. Langacker
Category=CFK
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Product details
- ISBN 9780804738514
- Weight: 649g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 1999
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is the first volume of a two-volume work that introduces a new and fundamentally different conception of language structure and linguistic investigation. 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. form-meaning pairings). 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.
Ronald W. Langacker is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author or editor of several books on linguistics.
