APPLIED COGNITIVE CONSTRUCTION GRAMMAR: A COGNITIVE GUIDE TO THE AI-DRIVEN TEACHING OF PHRASAL VERBS

By Sergio Torres-Martínez

Since its inception in 2015, Applied Cognitive Construction Grammar (ACCxG) has undergone a profound epistemological metamorphosis, transcending the ontological constraints of traditional Cognitive Construction Grammar (tCCxG) and its concomitant reliance on statistical learning mechanisms. The initial Goldbergian theoretical architecture has been supplanted by a substantially more nuanced framework predicated upon agentive intentionality, predictive processing, and materiality-grounded linguistic phenomena. ACCxG has decisively repudiated the conceptualization of language as a mere combinatorial symbolic system subject to frequency-dependent modifications. Instead, it posits meaning as an emergent property arising from the intricate interplay of semiotic agency, predictive inferential processes, and material anchoring mechanisms. This theoretical reorientation, informed by Peircean semiotic principles and Fristonian active inference postulates, elucidates how linguistic constructions emerge organically from embodied cognitive substrates rather than from abstract probabilistic distributions. The pedagogical dimension of ACCxG has undergone a particularly significant transformation. Whereas preliminary methodological approaches were predominantly characterized by corpus-based statistical modeling, contemporary frameworks judiciously incorporate artificial intelligence systems, particularly advanced language modeling architectures, to generate meticulously calibrated linguistic data for instructional applications. This methodological sophistication facilitates more rigorous comparative analyses between computationally generated linguistic patterns and contextually situated human linguistic production. This scholarly volume is systematically structured into three interconnected sections: theoretical foundations that establish the conceptual architecture, cognitive pedagogical grammar that mediates between theoretical abstraction and pedagogical praxis, and comprehensive applications with particular emphasis on the acquisition and utilization of phrasal verb constructions. ACCxG ultimately offers a revolutionary reconceptualization of language as a sophisticated cognitive instrument for predictive modeling, challenging established linguistic orthodoxies while advancing innovative approaches to both theoretical linguistics and pedagogical implementation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F5NZT2C1
• ISBN13: 9798311679497
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 199 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.7" x 6.2"