Cognitive linguistics has reached a stage of maturity where many researchers are looking for an explicit formal grounding of their work. Unfortunately, most current models of deep language processing incorporate assumptions from generative grammar that are at odds with the cognitive movement in linguistics. This demonstration shows how Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG), a fully operational and b...

Most schools of linguistics have their foundations in a study of the syntax and semantics of individual sentences. Cognitive linguistics is to some extent no exception: while it has always devoted considerable attention to the conceptual aspects of linguistic meaning and to the study of language in use, the focus of research has still traditionally been on single sentences or propositions rathe...

Cognitive linguistics is the study of essence a particular concept in linguistic description world and its relation to realities. Concept one main categories cognitive an element that establishes connection between culture man. cluster closely related approaches language as mental phenomenon. emerged school 1970s. knowledge, language, which represents crucial role secular information structures...

It is remarkable if any relationship at all persists between computational linguists (CL) and that part of general linguistics comprising the mainstream of MIT transformational-generative (TG) theoretical syntax. If the lines are still open, it represents something of a tribute to CL practitioners’ tolerance — a triumph of hope and goodwill over the experience of abuse — because the TG communit...

For me, this is an exciting time to be a cognitive scientist and a cognitive linguist. Cognitive Linguistics has developed rapidly and with enormous success over the past two decades, providing a cognitively based account of language. When results in cognitive linguistics are taken together with results in the other cognitive sciences, a radically new view of the mind and language—and their rel...

1 Bilingual Cognition and Development Lab, Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China, 2 Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, Center for Studies of Psychological Application, School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China, 3 College of Psychology and Sociology, Shenzhen U...

This paper will appear, in a slightly shortened form, as an in-depth article (# 231) in the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Nature Publishing Group, Macmillan Publishers Ltd. For alerts on the project’s progress, visit www.cognitivescience.net. Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science #231, Categorial grammar and formal semantics Michael Moortgat Professor of Computational Linguistics Utrecht Insti...

Research in cognitive linguistics has yielded valuable semantic and pragmatic insights that should be incorporated by language understanding systems. These insights have not been expressed in a rigorous enough form to be implemented. We provide a unified formalism for representing four conceptual primitives: schemas, constructions, mental spaces, and maps. These primitives are motivated by the ...

Many attempts have been made to discover some systematicity in the semantics of phrasal verbs. However, most research has investigated the semantics of particles exclusively; no study has examined how the multiple meanings of the verb also contribute to the meanings of phrasal verbs. The current corpus-based (COCA) study advances the research on phrasal verbs by examining the interaction of the...