Cognitive foundations of linguistic usage patterns
By: edited by Hans-Jörg Schmid, Susanne Handl
Series: Applications of cognitive linguistics -- 13; Applications of cognitive linguistics -- 13.
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Berlin; New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9783110205176
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Hans-Jörg Schmid and Susanne Handl; title: Part I. Lexical patterns: A computational model of the ambiguity-vagueness spectrum / George Dunbar; title: Questions of life and death: Denotational boundary disputes / Olaf Jäkel; title: Breakthroughs and disasters: The politics and ethics of metaphor use in the media / Brigitte Nerlich; title: Synonymy, lexical fields, and grammatical constructions: A study in usage-based cognitive semantics / Dylan Glynn; title: Collocation, anchoring, and the mental lexicon: an ontogenetic perspective / Susanne Handl and Eva-Maria Graf; title: Part II. Grammatical patterns: The mean lean grammar machine meets the human mind: Empirical investigations of the mental status of linguistic rules / Ewa Dabrowska; title: Motivating grammatical and conceptual gender agreement in German / Klaus-Michael Köpcke, Klaus-Uwe Panther and David A. Zubin; title: Computed or entrenched? The French imparfait de politesse / Ulrich Detges; title: Valency constructions and clause constructions or how, if at all, valency grammarians might sneeze the foam off the cappuccino / Thomas Herbst; title: What exactly is the question-assertion distinction based on? An exploration in experimental speech act theory / Patric Bach and Dietmar Zaefferer.