(Ebook) Cognitive foundations of linguistic usage patterns by Hans-Jörg Schmid; Susanne Handl ISBN 9783110205176, 9783110216035, 3110205173, 3110216035

(Ebook) Cognitive foundations of linguistic usage patterns by Hans-Jörg Schmid; Susanne Handl ISBN 9783110205176, 9783110216035, 3110205173, 3110216035

There is an increasing awareness in linguistics that linguistic patterns can be explained with recourse to general cognitive processes. The contributions collected in this volume pursue such a usage-based cognitive linguistic approach by presenting empirical investigations of lexical and grammatical patterns and probing into their implications for the relations between language structure, use and cognition. Content: Introduction / Hans-Jörg Schmid and Susanne Handl -- Part I. Lexical patterns: A computational model of the ambiguity-vagueness spectrum / George Dunbar -- Questions of life and death: Denotational boundary disputes / Olaf Jäkel -- Breakthroughs and disasters: The politics and ethics of metaphor use in the media / Brigitte Nerlich -- Synonymy, lexical fields, and grammatical constructions: A study in usage-based cognitive semantics / Dylan Glynn -- Collocation, anchoring, and the mental lexicon: an ontogenetic perspective / Susanne Handl and Eva-Maria Graf -- Part II. Grammatical patterns: The mean lean grammar machine meets the human mind: Empirical investigations of the mental status of linguistic rules / Ewa Dabrowska -- Motivating grammatical and conceptual gender agreement in German / Klaus-Michael Köpcke, Klaus-Uwe Panther and David A. Zubin -- Computed or entrenched? The French imparfait de politesse / Ulrich Detges -- Valency constructions and clause constructions or how, if at all, valency grammarians might sneeze the foam off the cappuccino / Thomas Herbst -- What exactly is the question-assertion distinction based on? An exploration in experimental speech act theory / Patric Bach and Dietmar Zaefferer. Abstract: There is an increasing awareness in linguistics that linguistic patterns can be explained with recourse to general cognitive processes. This title features contributions that pursue such a usage-based cognitive linguistic approach by presenting empirical investigations of lexical and grammatical patterns.