| Ten Lectures on Grammar in the Mind Contributor(s): Dąbrowska, Ewa (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004336818 ISBN-13: 9789004336810 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $101.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Semantics |
| Series: Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.92 lbs) 238 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume presents a synthesis of cognitive linguistic theory and research on first and second language acquistion, language processing, individual differences in linguistic knowledge, and on the role of multi-word chunks and low-level schemas in language production and comprehension. It highlights the tension between "linguists' grammars", which are strongly influenced by principles such as economy and elegance, and "speakers' grammars", which are often messy, less than fully general, and sometimes inconsistent, and argues that cognitive linguistics is an empirical science which combines study of real usage events and experiments which rigorously test specific hypotheses. |
