Word Grammar, Cognition and Dependency
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Word Grammar, Cognition and Dependency

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Word Grammar, Cognition and Dependency

About this book

Established in the early 1980s, Word Grammar is the first theory of grammar that was cast in the terms of cognitive linguistics. This book surveys the groundbreaking contribution of WG to a number of disciplines both within and outside of linguistics. It illustrates the benefits of thinking beyond traditional phrase-structural notions of syntax, and beyond encapsulated theories of cognition, by exploring how key problems in theoretical linguistics and historical linguistics can be approached from alternative perspectives. It provides examples of how theoretical linguistic notions and constructs of WG can be applied to bilingual language use, as well as a variety of typologically different languages including English, Chinese, German and Swedish. It also explores the relationship between language and social cognition and dependency distance as a universal measure of syntactic complexity. It is essential reading for linguists seeking creative ideas on how to advance explanations of language, language variation and change.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2025
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
eBook ISBN
9781009037341
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Imprints page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. List of Contributors
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Introduction
  12. 1 Word Grammar in Its Intellectual Contexts
  13. 2 Raising in Phonology
  14. 3 Grammar Change in the Network
  15. 4 Word Formation Change in Word Grammar: Two Case Studies
  16. 5 The Metaphorical Bases of Constituency and Dependency
  17. 6 From Social Psychology to Cognitive Sociolinguistics: The Self-Serving Bias and Interplay with Gender and Modesty in Language Use
  18. 7 Hudson on Heads: About Distributional Criteria
  19. 8 Ordinary French Houses: Revisiting the Dependency vs. Phrase Structure Debate
  20. 9 Dependency Grammar and Subordination
  21. 10 Verb Phrases as Attributive Nominal Modifiers
  22. 11 Testing the Predictions of Word Grammar, the Minimalist Programme and the Matrix Language Frame Model for German/English Mixed Determiner–Noun Constructions
  23. 12 Factors Influencing Dependency Distance: An Account of the MDD Variation between Chinese and English
  24. Index

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