Cognitive English Grammar

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Pub. Date: 2007-07-01
Publisher(s): John Benjamins Pub Co
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Table of Contents

The cognitive frameworkp. 1
Categories in thought and languagep. 3
Cognitive operations in thought and languagep. 21
From thought to language : cognitive grammarp. 41
Things : nouns and noun phrasesp. 61
Types of things : nounsp. 63
Grounding things : referencep. 87
Quantifying things : quantifiersp. 115
Qualifying things : modifiersp. 141
Situations as temporal units : aspect, tense and modalityp. 171
Situation types : aspectp. 175
Grounding situations in time : tensep. 201
Grounding situations in potentiality : modalityp. 233
Situations as relational units : sentence structurep. 267
Event schemas : sentence patternsp. 269
Space and extensions of space : complements and adjunctsp. 303
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