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Cognitive Foundations of Grammar

Heine, Bernd
Innbundet / 1998 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780195102512
Publisert
1998
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
227 gr
Høyde
239 mm
Bredde
185 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
200

Forfatter
Heine, Bernd

Biografisk notat

Bernd Heine is Professor of African Studies (Afrikanistik) and Director of the Institute for African Studies at the University of Cologne in Germany. He has published thirty books, including Possession: Cognitive Sources, Forces, and Grammaticalization (1997), The Mukogodo Maasai: An Ethnobotanical Survey (co-author, 1994), Auxiliaries: Cognitive Forces and Grammaticalization (Oxford, 1993), and Grammaticalization: A Conceptual Framework (co-author, 1991).

Cognitive Foundations of Grammar

Heine, Bernd
Innbundet / 1998 / Engelsk
Heine, Bernd
Innbundet / 1998 / Engelsk
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an interesting and informative study that should appeal to linguistic and cognitive anthropologists, cognitive and historical linguists, and laypersons interested in languages ... Heine presents a plausible explanatory framework and lucid descriptions of a variety of lexical patterns and grammatical constructions in several domains of meaning.

Gary B. Palmer, Cognitive Linguistics, 10-2, 1999.

Wide-ranging the book indeed is ... and its lucid style, coherent focus, and wealth of examples make it an excellent intoduction to the topic and the method that it reprents ... richly informative book ... It can unreservedly be recommended as an introduction to contemporary grammaticalization theory, but it will also be useful and illuminating reading for researchers and students in all areas of cognitive-functional linguistics, and anyone interested in the cognitive foundations of language.

Chris Sinha, Linguistics 37-3 1999

The main function of language is to convey meaning. Therefore, argues Bernd Heine in these pages, the question of why language is structured the way it is must first of all be answered with reference to this function. Linguistic explanations offered in terms of other exponents of language structure (for example, syntax) are likely to highlight peripheral or epi-phenomenal--rather than central--characteristics of language structure. Heine provides a solid introductory treatment of the ways in which language structure (that is, grammar) and language usage can be explained with reference to the processes underlying human conceptualization and communication. Exploring and area of linguistics that has developed only recently and is rapidly expanding, Cognitive Foundations of Grammar will appeal to students of linguistics, psychology, and anthropology, especially those interested in grammaticalization processess.
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Heine provides an introductory treatment of the ways in which language structure (grammar) and language use can be explained with reference to the processes underlying human conceptualization and communication.
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an interesting and informative study that should appeal to linguistic and cognitive anthropologists, cognitive and historical linguists, and laypersons interested in languages ... Heine presents a plausible explanatory framework and lucid descriptions of a variety of lexical patterns and grammatical constructions in several domains of meaning.

Gary B. Palmer, Cognitive Linguistics, 10-2, 1999.

Wide-ranging the book indeed is ... and its lucid style, coherent focus, and wealth of examples make it an excellent intoduction to the topic and the method that it reprents ... richly informative book ... It can unreservedly be recommended as an introduction to contemporary grammaticalization theory, but it will also be useful and illuminating reading for researchers and students in all areas of cognitive-functional linguistics, and anyone interested in the cognitive foundations of language.

Chris Sinha, Linguistics 37-3 1999

The main function of language is to convey meaning. Therefore, argues Bernd Heine in these pages, the question of why language is structured the way it is must first of all be answered with reference to this function. Linguistic explanations offered in terms of other exponents of language structure (for example, syntax) are likely to highlight peripheral or epi-phenomenal--rather than central--characteristics of language structure. Heine provides a solid introductory treatment of the ways in which language structure (that is, grammar) and language usage can be explained with reference to the processes underlying human conceptualization and communication. Exploring and area of linguistics that has developed only recently and is rapidly expanding, Cognitive Foundations of Grammar will appeal to students of linguistics, psychology, and anthropology, especially those interested in grammaticalization processess.
Les mer
Heine provides an introductory treatment of the ways in which language structure (grammar) and language use can be explained with reference to the processes underlying human conceptualization and communication.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780195102512
Publisert
1998
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
227 gr
Høyde
239 mm
Bredde
185 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
200

Forfatter
Heine, Bernd

Biografisk notat

Bernd Heine is Professor of African Studies (Afrikanistik) and Director of the Institute for African Studies at the University of Cologne in Germany. He has published thirty books, including Possession: Cognitive Sources, Forces, and Grammaticalization (1997), The Mukogodo Maasai: An Ethnobotanical Survey (co-author, 1994), Auxiliaries: Cognitive Forces and Grammaticalization (Oxford, 1993), and Grammaticalization: A Conceptual Framework (co-author, 1991).

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