Investigations in cognitive grammar [electronic resource] / by Ronald W. Langacker.
Series: Cognitive linguistics research ; 42.Publication details: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2009.Description: xiv, 396 p. : illISBN:- 9783110214345 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 3110214342 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9783110214352 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 3110214350 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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- P165 .L365 2009eb

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Preface -- 1. Constructions in cognitive grammar -- 2. Metonymy in grammar -- 3. A constructional approach to grammaticization -- 4. Possession, location, and existence -- 5. On the subject of impersonals -- 6. Enunciating the parallelism of nominal and clausal grounding -- 7. The English present: temporal coincidence vs. epistemic immediacy -- 8. A functional account of the English auxiliary -- 9. Aspects of the grammar of finite clauses -- 10. Finite complements in English -- 11. Subordination in cognitive grammar -- 12. The conceptual basis of coordination -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.
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