Hollmann, Willem (2013) Nouns and verbs in cognitive grammar:where is the 'sound' evidence? Cognitive Linguistics, 24 (2). n/a. ISSN 0936-5907 (In Press)
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Formalist approaches traditionally define word classes in distributional terms. By contrast, Cognitive Grammar advocates a semantic basis: nouns profile THINGS; verbs highlight PROCESSES. There is psycholinguistic support for the importance of semantics in lexical categorisation, but also for (language-particular) distributional and phonological properties. This paper focuses on phonology, whose importance is further underlined by data from language change and typology. Following a review of the psycholinguistic and historical linguistic and typological evidence, a gap in the literature is filled, i.e. an experiment involving the production of nonce nouns and verbs is conducted, providing further converging evidence for phonology. I then show how this evidence, although not currently recognised in Cognitive Grammar, can be straightforwardly accommodated as phonological sub-schemas. These sub-schemas are probably more important than the super-schemas proposed in Cognitive Grammar (which may actually be non-existent, and anyway fail to yield clear predictions vis-à-vis empirical data). I conclude that in developing the model further, a higher degree of responsibility to all the available empirical data is called for.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Cognitive Linguistics |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Cognitive Grammar ; psycholinguistics ; nouns ; verbs ; phonology |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Departments: | Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Linguistics & English Language |
| ID Code: | 59794 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer_pure |
| Deposited On: | 02 Nov 2012 08:50 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | In Press |
| Last Modified: | 23 Nov 2012 10:58 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/59794 |
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