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A view from cognitive linguistics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1999

Ronald W. Langacker
Ronald W. Langacker
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0108 [email protected]
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Abstract

Barsalou's contribution converges with basic ideas and empirical findings of cognitive linguistics. They posit the same general architecture. The perceptual grounding of conceptual structure is a central tenet of cognitive linguistics. Our capacity to construe the same situation in alternate ways is fundamental to cognitive semantics, and numerous parallels are discernible between conceptual construal and visual perception. Grammar is meaningful, consisting of schematized patterns for the pairing of semantic and phonological structures. The meanings of grammatical elements reside primarily in the construal they impose on conceptual content. This view of linguistic structure appears to be compatible with Barsalou's proposals.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , August 1999 , pp. 625
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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