The Structure of Lexical Variation

Geeraerts, Dirk; Grondelaers, Stefan; Bakema, Peter

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“…There is, of course, a large and rapidly growing body of research in cognitive sociolinguistics (e.g. Geeraerts et al 1994;Geeraerts 2010;Kristiansen and Dirven 2008;Pütz et al 2014; see Geeraerts and Kristiansen 2015 for a recent review). Most of this work, however, has concentrated on language variation rather than social influences on language structure per se.…”

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Cognitive Linguistics’ seven deadly sins

Dąbrowska

2016

Cognitive Linguistics

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Cognitive Linguistics is an approach to language study based on three central premises: that the function of language is to convey meaning, that linguistic description must rely on constructs that are psychologically real, and that grammar emerges from usage. Over the last 40 years, this approach to studying language has made enormous strides in virtually every aspect of linguistic inquiry, achieving major insights as well as bringing about a conceptual unification of the language sciences. However, it has also faced problems, which, I argue, must be addressed if the approach is to continue to flourish. Some of these are shared with generative linguistics, while some are peculiar to the cognitive approach. The former include excessive reliance on introspective evidence; paying only lip service to the Cognitive Commitment; too much focus on hypothesis formulation (and not enough on hypothesis testing); ignoring individual differences; and neglecting the social aspects of language. The latter include assuming that we can deduce mental representations from patterns of use and equating distribution with meaning. I conclude by sketching out how these pitfalls could be avoided.

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Cognitive Linguistics’ seven deadly sins

Dąbrowska

2016

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“…Such lexical research in Cognitive Linguistics includes Lehrer (1982Lehrer ( , 1990, Dirven & al. (1982), Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (1996), Geeraerts (1993bGeeraerts ( , 1997Geeraerts ( , 2000Geeraerts ( , 2006Geeraerts ( , & al. 1994, Schmid (1993Schmid ( , 2000, Fischer (2000), Grondelaers & Geeraerts (2003), Frohning (2005), and Glynn (2004a, 2004b, 2006a, 2006b).…”

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Iconicity and the grammar–lexis interface

Glynn¹

2007

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This study examines the proposal in Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 1987, Talmy 2000 that grammatical classes are iconically motivated. The discussion follows a case-study to test this hypothesis. Using found data, we examine the productivity of a range of grammatical classes across Dutch, English, and German. The study bases its analysis on the lexical concept of precipitation. The perceptual and universal nature of such a concept should be a best-case scenario for iconic motivation of grammatical classes. However, despite this, the test-case produces mixed results. Although the hypothesis is not disproved, we reveal how it cannot, alone, explain the vagaries of lexical -class grammaticality.

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“…Geeraerts (1994) gives the example of trousers / pants / blue jeans and discusses some of the factors that determine their respective salience and variation in particular contexts.…”

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Lexical Culture

Hartmann

2013

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The paper focuses on the mutual relations between linguistics and lexicograph Against the background of etymology and comparative-historical linguistic studies and using ;~ words 'lexical' and 'culture' as examples, an attempt is made to demonstrate the relevance of mOrphology, grammar and semantics to the description of vocabulary and its lexicographic codifica_ tion. Issues of intra lingual variety and interlingual diversity can now also be addressed Within the theoretical framework of contrastive textology, supported by computer-aided parallel text corpus analysis. However, lexicography is not entirely dependent on the results of linguistic research; it needs to move on and develop its own theoretical base. Recent progress in four fields of dictionary research has indeed contributed to an international upsurge of 'lexical culture'. Keywords: LINGUISTICS (ETYMOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY, GRAMMAR, SEMANTICS), CONTRASTIVE TEXTOLOGY (PARALLEL TEXT CORPORA), LEXICOGRAPHY (REFERENCE SCIENCE, DICTIONARY RESEARCH), CULTUREOpsomming: Leksikale kultuur. In hierdie artikel word gekonsentreer op die gemeenskaplikhede tussen die linguistiek en die leksikografie. Teen die agtergrond van die etimologie en vergelykend-historiese linguistiese studies en met 'lexical' en 'culture' as voorbeelde, word 'n poging aangewend om die relevansie van morfologie, grammatika en semantiek aan te dui in die beskrywing van die woordeskat en die leksikografiese kodifiering daarvan. Kwessies van buitetalige verskeidenheid en intertalige uiteenlopendheid word ook aangespreek binne die teoretiese raamwerk van kontrastiewe tekstologie, ondersteun deur rekeneaargesteunde parallelle tekskorpusanalise. Leksikografie is egter nie heeltemal afhanklik van die resultate van linguistiese navorsing nie; dit moet verder vorder en 'n eie teoretiese basis ontwikkel. OnIangse ontwikkeling in vier velde van woordeboeknavorsing het inderdaad bygedra tot 'n internasionale oplewing van 'leksikale kultuur'.

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The Structure of Lexical Variation

Cited by 193 publications

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Cognitive Linguistics’ seven deadly sins

Cognitive Linguistics’ seven deadly sins

Iconicity and the grammar–lexis interface

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