: Hans-Jörg Schmid, Susanne Handl
: Cognitive Foundations of Linguistic Usage Patterns Empirical Studies
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110216035
: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL]ISSN
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< >There is an increasing awareness in linguistics that linguistic patterns can be explained with recourse to general cognitive processes. The contributions collected in this volume pursue such a usage-based cognitive linguistic approach by presenting empirical investigations of lexical and grammatical patterns and probing into their implications for the relations between language structure, use and cognition.

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Hans-Jörg SchmidandSus nne Handl, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitä , Munich, Germany.
Table of contents5
Introduction11
Part I: Lexical patterns21
A computational model of the ambiguity-vagueness spectrum23
Questions of life and death: Denotational boundary disputes43
Breakthroughs and disasters: The politics and ethics of metaphor use in the media73
Synonyme, lexical fields, and grammatical constructions. A study in usage-based cognitive semantics99
Collocation, anchoring, and the mental lexicon – an ontogenetic perspective129
Part II: Grammatical patterns159
The mean lean grammar machine meets the human mind: Empirical investigations of the mental status of linguistic rules161
Motivating grammatical and conceptual gender agreement in German181
Computed or entrenched? The French imparfait de politesse205
Valency constructions and clause constructions or how, if at all, valency grammarians might sneeze the foam off the cappuccino235
What exactly is the question-assertion distinction based on? An exploration in experimental speech act theory267
Index285