Cognitive English Grammar (Cognitive Linguistics in Practice)

Cognitive English Grammar......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
List of typographical conventions used in the book......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
I. The cognitive framework......Page 16
Categories in thought and language......Page 18
Cognitive operations in thought and language......Page 36
From thought to language......Page 56
II. Things: Nouns and noun phrases......Page 76
Types of things: Nouns......Page 78
Grounding things: Reference......Page 102
Quantifying things: Quantifiers......Page 130
Qualifying things: Modifiers......Page 156
III. Situations as temporal units: Aspect, tense and modality......Page 186
Situation types: Aspect......Page 190
Grounding situations in time: Tense......Page 216
Grounding situations in potentiality: Modality......Page 248
IV. Situations as relational units: Sentence structure......Page 282
Event schemas: Sentence patterns......Page 284
Space and extensions of space......Page 318
References......Page 364
Glossary......Page 350
Index......Page 376
The series Cognitive Linguistics in Practice......Page 390