Morphology in Cognitive Linguistics [PDF]
Cognitive linguistics and morphology bear the promise of a happy marriage. Cognitive linguistics provides theoretical concepts and analytical tools for empirical analysis, while morphology offers fertile ground for testing hypotheses and refining core concepts.
Tore Nesset
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Linguistically Grounded Models of Language Change [PDF]
Questions related to the evolution of language have recently known an impressive increase of interest (Briscoe, 2002). This short paper aims at questioning the scientific status of these models and their relations to attested data. We show that one cannot directly model non-linguistic factors (exogenous factors) even if they play a crucial role in ...
Poibeau, Thierry
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Embodied-Cognitive Linguistics: Integrating Marxist perspectives on contemporary Cognitive Linguistics theory [PDF]
Honglin Zhou, Xiaoyang Luo
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Conceptual Metaphors of time in Persian: A cognitive and Corpus-based Approach [PDF]
Metaphor is a systematic mapping between two conceptual domains. In metaphor; an experimental domain called as source domain is mapped into another domain as target domain.
Fattemeh Raiisi+3 more
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Production of prosodic cues in coordinate name sequences addressing varying interlocutors
Prosodic boundaries can be used to disambiguate the syntactic structure of coordinated name sequences (coordinates). To answer the question whether disambiguating prosody is produced in a situationally dependent or independent manner and to contribute to
Carola de Beer+3 more
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A book review: Metaphor and Emotion: Language, Culture, and Body in Human Feeling, by Zoltan Kövecses [PDF]
After the publication of the influential book The Metaphors We Live By, by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in 1980, many thinkers have started studying the conceptual metaphor’s various dimensions besides how it affects thinking and everyday life.
Fatemeh Shafiei
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Corrigendum: The influence of temperament and perinatal factors on language development: a longitudinal study [PDF]
Andrea Balázs+7 more
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Children’s Learning of Non-adjacent Dependencies Using a Web-Based Computer Game Setting
Infants show impressive speech decoding abilities and detect acoustic regularities that highlight the syntactic relations of a language, often coded via non-adjacent dependencies (NADs, e.g., is singing).
Mireia Marimon+9 more
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Empty names, hallucinations, and semantics
In this paper we introduce the problem space of the intersection of hallucinatory experiences and hallucinatory thoughts involving empty names. We recount a brief history of the theory of names. We select and defend a direct reference theory of names. We
Fred Adams, Andrew Jackson
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Teaching Cognitive Linguistics Methods at Master Degree Programmes
Cognitive linguistics combines knowledge of different sciences, such as philosophy, linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, mathematical statistics and others.
Elena S. Milkevich
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