Textbooks for cognitive linguistics and functional grammar

[Siva Kalyan]

There is also an abridged version called "Essentials of Cognitive Grammar",
which contains only the first six chapters (but thus excludes the bits on
discourse)

Siva

On Monday, 20 January 2014, Steffen Haurholm-Larsen wrote:

>     Dear Shihong Zhou,
>
>  A very accessible introduction to cognitive grammar is given by the
> "founding father" of that sub-branch of linguistics HERE<http://books.google.dk/books/about/Cognitive_Grammar_An_Introduction.html?id=UKVNKz0ZRqwC&redir_esc=y>.
> 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).
>
>  As for functional grammar this is an umbrella term that applies to a
> great variety of linguistic sub-branches (see for instance HERE<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_theories_of_grammar>)
> so you will most likely have to make a choice in favor of one of these.
>
>  I hope this helps you a small bit further in your search.
>
>  Best,
>
>  Steffen Haurholm-Larsen
>  University of Bern, Switzerland
>  PhD student
>
>
>
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> Date:    Mon, 20 Jan 2014 06:55:13 +0800
> From:    zhou <zsh9986 at 163.COM> <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'zsh9986 at 163.COM');>
> Subject: Textbooks for cognitive linguistics and functional grammar
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> 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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