The book provides a theoretical and empirical evaluation of a field that has been the focus of generative theories on language acquisition: the acquisition of finiteness and related properties such as root infinitives, verb movement and null subjects.
This book is relevant for phonologists, morphologists, Slavists and cognitive linguists, and addresses two questions: How can the morphology-phonology interface be accommodated in cognitive linguistics?
This book offers an inclusive perspective on the constellation of languages in Europe by taking into account official state languages, regional minority languages and immigrant minority languages.
Over the past decade, Cognitive Linguistics has grown to be one of the most broadly appealing and dynamic frameworks for the study of natural language.
The papers in this volume deal with the issue of how corpus data relate to the questions that cognitive linguists have typically investigated with respect to conceptual mappings.
This collection of twelve papers demonstrates that the concepts developed within the Cognitive Linguistics movement afford an insightful perspective on several important areas of second language acquisition and pedagogy.
The proposition that there is a correlation between language and culture or culture-specific ways of thinking can be traced back to the views of Herder and von Humboldt in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Current Trends in the Development and Teaching of the four Language Skills builds connections from theory in the four language skills to instructional practices.
Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives is an up-to-date survey of recent research in Cognitive Linguistics and its applications by prominent researchers.
This volume presents important results of the Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich) "e;Situated Artificial Communicators,"e; which was funded by grants from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) for more than twelve years.
The book testifies of the great tolerance of Cognitive Linguists towards internal variety within itself and towards external interaction with major linguistic subdisciplines.
Cognitive Linguistics, the branch of linguistics that tries to "e;make one's account of human language accord with what is generally known about the mind and the brain,"e; has become one of the most flourishing fields of contemporary linguistics.
This book, addressed primarily to students and researchers in semantics, cognitive linguistics, English, and Australian languages, is a comparative study of the polysemy patterns displayed by percussion/impact ('hitting') verbs in English and Warlpiri (Pama-Nyungan, Central Australia).
Non-Native Prosody: Phonetic Description and Teaching Practice is a response to the increasing interest in the field of prosody in second language acquisition and teaching.
The renewed focus on the evidential base of linguistics in general, but particularly on syntax, is in to a large degree dependent on technological developments: computers, electronic storage and transmission.
Questioning the construction of the 'native speaker' as an authority and ideal in language education, this book offers a critical and accessible engagement with research problematising notions of 'nativeness' while emphasising the interactional and ongoing nature of identity construction.
Advancing Global Competencies in Education offers an in-depth and insightful exploration into the evolving field of international education and intercultural communication.
Diese Studie untersucht, wie deutschsprachige Kinder - im Vergleich zu Erwachsenen - ambige Koordinationen wie "Robert gab Leo ein Buch und Hans eine CD" interpretieren.
Dieses Buch ist eine empirische Studie, die individuelle Grunde fur spezifische Sprachpraktiken und fur die Verhandlung und Performanz hybrider Identitaten innerhalb der intimsten "e;Community of Practice (CofP)"e;, der Ehe, untersucht.
