Ten Lectures on Language as Cognition: A Multi-Method Approach

By Dagmar Divjak

Merging insights from cognitive linguistic theories of language and learning theories originating within psychology, Divjak and Milin present a new paradigm that has computational modelling at its core. They showcase the power of this interdisciplinary approach for linguistic theory, methodology and description. Through a series of detailed case studies that model usage of the English article system, the Polish aspectual system, English tense/aspect contrasts and the Serbian case system they show how computational models anchored in learning can provide a simple and comprehensive account of how intricate phenomena that have long defied a unified treatment could be learned from exposure to usage alone. As such, their models form the basis for a first rigorous test of a core assumption of usage-based linguistics: that of the emergence of structure from use.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004506500
• ISBN13: 9789004506503
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"