Cognitive Grammar: An Introduction

by Ronald W. Langacker

Book Overview

This book fills a long standing need for a basic introduction to Cognitive Grammar that is current, authoritative, comprehensive, and approachable. It presents a synthesis that draws together and refines the descriptive and theoretical notions developed in this framework over the course of three decades. In a unified manner, it accommodates both the conceptual and the social-interactive basis of linguistic structure, as well as the need for both functional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195331966
• ISBN13: 9780195331967
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 584 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"