The structure of the volume follows the original division into 10 different lectures. They fall apart in two larger blocks: the first part (comprising Lectures 1 and 2) presents the overall theoretical framework of cognitive, usage-based linguistics and its methodological consequences. The remaining part (Lectures 3 to 10) presents different case studies that I have carried out within this framework, some of these in collaboration with colleagues. They can be grouped in four large areas of research: (i) the study of lexical causatives in English (Lectures 3 and 4), (ii) posture and placement verbs in Dutch and English (Lectures 5, 6, 7 and 8), (iii) typological perspectives on spatial expressions (Lecture 9), and some particular grammaticalization studies (Lecture 10).

The research presented in this volume represents the large strands of research that I have been working on in the course of my career. What is common to all these strands is that they all use a cognitive usage based perspective on language. It is therefore warranted that we open this volume with two lectures that present this theoretical model.

【简介】

本稿为""国际认知语言学前言课题讲座""丛书之一，包含作者在不同场合下所做的10个讲座的文字版，主要围绕认识语言学研究领域的诸多热点问题研究展开，对很多备受关注的语言词句和语言现象进行了深入浅出的分析和解释。全稿分为两个部分，第一部分（第1, 2个讲座）构建全书总体框架，第二部分（第3-10个讲座）分别聚焦不同个案研究，如共时和历时的角度下英语致使词的范式、荷兰语中staan（stand）、liggen（lie）和zitten（sit）三个姿态动词（posture verb）以及它们怎样被语法化为进行体的标记词、方位动词（placement verb）的特点及其与姿态动词的对比，以及类型学视角下的一些其他语法现象。作者Maarten Lemmens为国际认知语言学界知名学者，现任法国里尔大学英语和瑞典语系教授。

【Contents】

Summary

Lecture 1 Introduction to a cognitive view on language

1.1 Basic postulates of cognitive linguistics

1.2 The structure of grammar

1.3 The emergence of grammar: a usage-based view

1.4 What is cognitive about cognitive linguistics?

1.5 Concluding remarks

Lecture 2 Usage-based linguistics and its methodological consequences

2.1 Introduction

2.2 A constructional view on linguistic knowledge

2.3 Defining constructions

2.4 From constructs to constructions

2.5 From usage to grammar and back

2.6 Concluding remarks

Lecture 3 Lexical-paradigmatic analysis of lexical causatives (synchronic perspective)

3.1 The lexical-paradigmatic approach

3.2 Case study 1: The (transitive) objectless construction

3.3 Case study 2: The causative alternation

3.4 Concluding remarks

Lecture 4 Lexical-paradigmatic analysis of lexical causatives (diachronic perspective)

4.1 Introduction

4.2 The ergativization of intransitives

4.3 The ergativization of transitives

4.4 Some particular paradigmatic changes

4.5 Concluding remarks

Lecture 5 A cognitive lexical semantic analysis of posture verbs

5.1 Introduction

5.2 A cognitive account of (Dutch) posture verbs

5.3 A look at learner language

5.4 Posture verbs in other languages

5.5 Concluding remarks

Lecture 6 A cognitive lexical semantic analysis of placement verbs

6.1 Posture and placement verbs

6.2 Aspect-causative lexicalization patterns

6.3 Dutch placement verbs

6.4 Concluding remarks

Lecture 7 Grammaticalization of (Dutch) posture verbs to grammatical markers

7.1 From spatial to progressive

7.2 Locational progressive constructions in Dutch

7.3 Comparison of pos and prep progressives

7.4 Concluding remarks

Lecture 8 Diachronic perspectives on posture and placement verbs

8.1 Posture verbs in Germanic languages

8.2 The demise of posture verbs in English

8.3 The demise of set and the rise of put

8.4 Concluding remarks

Lecture 9 Typological perspectives on location

9.1 Typological perspectives on motion and location

9.2 Cross-linguistic differences in locative expressions

9.3 Concluding remarks

Lecture 10 Two case studies in grammaticalization

10.1 From particle to evaluative adjective

10.2 Light verbs in Odia

10.3 Concluding remarks

Bibliography

Appendices

Appendix 1: List of texts for pilot study on English sit (Lecture 8)

Appendix 2: List of texts for the rise of English put (Lecture 8)

Appendix 3: Pictures used in the Oral Picture Description Experiment (Lecture 9)