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 T he de mise 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)