The notion of panchrony is discussed in the context on-going polarization between structurally- and functionally-oriented linguistic paradigms. two radically divergent conceptions are thus surveyed, as envisaged by, respectively, Saussure cognitive linguistics. As not yet a widely accepted research paradigm, it suggested that while functionalists seem to be still search an appropriate understan...

The notion of cognitive linguistics first appeared in the 1970's, largely as a response to the shortcomings of truth-conditional semantics and generative grammar. Since then it has attracted the interest of a number of scholars, giving rise to a complex discipline encompassing the study of semantics, syntax, morphology, as well as reaching other disciplines of linguistic investigations, such as...

The main objective of Bolshakov and Gelbukh's new textbook in computational linguistics is to provide students in computer science with a foundation in the fundamentals of general linguistics necessary to develop applied software systems, and to enable students to make informed choices of proper models and data structures. Although Spanish-language applications are emphasized, the textbook cont...

Causation is very important from social and communicative pragmatic point of view closely connected with the rapid development cognitive linguistics. The modern linguistics characterized by investigating real task language in linguocognitive aspect. This process focused on putting semantics into first place. Investigating world taken place every field layer, it because given opportunity to lear...

We present a system to comprehend natural language that combines cognitive linguistics with known properties of human language processing. It is built on Embodied Construction Grammar (ECG) and the Soar cognitive architecture. Its core is a novel grounded semantic parser. Experiments show the system produces actionable meanings and fulfills ten cognitive criteria we set out.

Language is a social phenomenon and variation is inherent to its social nature. Recently, there has been a surge of interest within the computational linguistics (CL) community in the social dimension of language. In this article we present a survey of the emerging field of ”computational sociolinguistics" that reflects this increased interest. We aim to provide a comprehensive overview of CL r...

This volume appears as the next installment in the CSLI series of edited volumes on cognitive and functional linguistics, Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language (CSDL). The name of the series reflects the theme of the first conference, held in 1994 at the University of California, San Diego, and the title of the first volume, edited by Adele Goldberg (1996). It is now also the name of the...

Steven Franks (1996) in his Reflections piece from the Journal of Slavic Linguistics made a comment that “...the walls that divide us [linguists] are coming down all over. What’s next?”, he asked. “Cognitive Science?” I think the answer to this question is a definite yes. The ability to produce and comprehend language is crucial for functioning in our society, and for the past two decades, ling...