
Ten Lectures on Grammar in the Mind
Ewa Dabrowska(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 1. June 2017
Book
Hardback
238 pages
978-90-04-33681-0 (ISBN)
Description
This volume presents a synthesis of cognitive linguistic theory and research on first and second language acquistion, language processing, individual differences in linguistic knowledge, and on the role of multi-word chunks and low-level schemas in language production and comprehension. It highlights the tension between "linguists' grammars", which are strongly influenced by principles such as economy and elegance, and "speakers' grammars", which are often messy, less than fully general, and sometimes inconsistent, and argues that cognitive linguistics is an empirical science which combines study of real usage events and experiments which rigorously test specific hypotheses.
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Series
Edition
xii, 226 pp.
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-33681-0 (9789004336810)
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Person
Ewa Dabrowska is Professor of Linguistics at Northumbria University and President of the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association. Her research interests include cognitive linguistics, language acquisition, the mental status of rules, and individual differences in linguistic knowledge.