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<div>Dear Shihong Zhou,<br>
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A very accessible introduction to cognitive grammar is
given by the "founding father" of that sub-branch of
linguistics <a
href="http://books.google.dk/books/about/Cognitive_Grammar_An_Introduction.html?id=UKVNKz0ZRqwC&redir_esc=y"
target="_blank">HERE</a>. You mean to focus on the
"discourse/syntax interaction" - you will find that in
Langacker's view language is not divisible into
modules such as "phonetics, phonology, lexicon,
morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics" (page
13 of Langacker cited in the link above) as in other
approaches to language - in fact, he only uses the
term "syntax" when speaking of formal approaches which
argue for the "autonomy of syntax" (with which he
disagrees).<br>
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As for functional grammar this is an umbrella term that
applies to a great variety of linguistic sub-branches
(see for instance <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_theories_of_grammar"
target="_blank">HERE</a>) so you will most likely have
to make a choice in favor of one of these. <br>
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I hope this helps you a small bit further in your search.<br>
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Best, <br>
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Steffen Haurholm-Larsen<br>
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University of Bern, Switzerland<br>
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PhD student<br>
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Den 1/20/14 6:00 AM, LINGTYP automatic digest system skrev:<br>
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1. Textbooks for cognitive linguistics and functional grammar
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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 06:55:13 +0800
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Subject: Textbooks for cognitive linguistics and functional grammar
Dear Colleagues,
Next semester, I will be giving two new courses , one is cognitive linguistics and the other is functional grammar, focusing on the discourse / syntax interaction, to the first year MA students of linguistics, I am now choosing the suitable textbooks for these two courses. So I am wondering what textbooks are good for the students who do not have a very good ground knowledge for linguistics, in regard to the its content and organizations, according to your teaching experience.
Thank you in advance.
Best regards!
Shihong Zhou
Linguisitcs Instit
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