Investigations in cognitive grammar
By: by Ronald W. Langacker.
Series: Cognitive linguistics research -- 42
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783110214345; 9783110214352
Subjects: Cognitive grammar
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: 1. Constructions in cognitive grammar; title: 2. Metonymy in grammar; title: 3. A constructional approach to grammaticization; title: 4. Possession, location, and existence; title: 5. On the subject of impersonals; title: 6. Enunciating the parallelism of nominal and clausal grounding; title: 7. The English present: temporal coincidence vs. epistemic immediacy; title: 8. A functional account of the English auxiliary; title: 9. Aspects of the grammar of finite clauses; title: 10. Finite complements in English; title: 11. Subordination in cognitive grammar; title: 12. The conceptual basis of coordination; title: References; title: Index.