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.
Based on a range of novel theoretical positions and case studies, this book explores the key ideas of Word Grammar when applied to different levels of language, typologically different languages and language change. It is essential reading for researchers and students interested in English syntax, morphology, phonology and linguistic theory.
Recenzijas
'This book, celebrating Dick Hudson's 80th birthday a few years ago, presents eleven interesting papers in Hudson's cognitively motivated Word Grammar framework. Several advantages of Hudson's simple framework are made clear by these interesting papers, including its cognitive basis and its ease of representing many complex phenomena across languages.' Edward Gibson, Professor of Cognitive Science, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT 'The authors of this book throw new light on a well-established theory of Word Grammar as proposed by Richard Hudson, comparing it both to more recent trends, and to the theory of dependency grammar. In this sense, this volume offers not only a wider perspective on the theory of Word Grammar with regard to the language phenomena belonging to different language layers, but presents an original contribution to the study of language.' Eva Hajiovį, Professor, Charles University, Prague
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An exploration of the key ideas of Word Grammar in different levels of language, typologically different languages and language change.
Introduction Nikolas Gisborne, Eva Duran Eppler and And Rosta;
1. Word
Grammar in its intellectual contexts Nikolas Gisborne and Stefan Müller;
2.
Raising in phonology And Rosta;
3. Grammar change in the network Nikolas
Gisborne;
4. Word formation change in Word Grammar: two case studies Graeme
Trousdale;
5. The metaphorical bases of constituency and dependency Andrįs
Imrényi;
6. From social psychology to cognitive sociolinguistics: the
self-serving bias and interplay with gender and modesty in language use
Willem B. Hollmann;
7. Hudson on heads: about distributional criteria Sylvain
Kahane;
8. Ordinary French Houses: Revisiting the Dependency vs. Phrase
Structure Debate Timothy Osborne;
9. Dependency grammar and subordination
Jackie Nordström;
10. Verb phrases as attributive nominal modifiers Bas
Aarts;
11. Testing the predictions of word grammar, the minimalist programme
and the matrix language frame model for German/English mixed determinernoun
constructions Eva Duran Eppler, Adrian Luescher and Margaret Deuchar;
12.
Factors Influencing Dependency Distance: An Account of the MDD Variation
between Chinese and English Ruochen Niu and Haitao Liu.
Eva M. Duran Eppler is a Reader in Linguistics at the University of Roehampton. She is chair of the Committee for Linguistics in Education. Notable publications include English Words and Sentences (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Nikolas Gisborne is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Notable publications include The Event Structure of Perception Verbs (OUP, 2010) and Ten Lectures on Events in a Network Theory of Language (Brill, 2020). And Rosta is Senior Lecturer of English Linguistics at the University of Central Lancashire.
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