Review article

Cognitive Grammar in the Context of Construction Grammars

Branimir Belaj orcid.org/0000-0002-2334-9673 ; Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku
Goran Tanacković Faletar ; Filozofski fakultet u Osijeku

Abstract

The topic of this paper are the cognitive linguistic approaches to grammar which can be covered by the term construction grammars. In the first part of the paper construction grammars are situated within the framework of functional approaches to grammar. This is followed by the discussion of how they square with the basic tenets of the so-called traditional functionalism, that is, functional grammars, and how they compare to generative grammar. The main part of the paper focuses on the analysis of the different construction grammars themselves, especially Cognitive Grammar, and proposes their classification into construction grammars in the narrow sense, which would include, among others, the theoretical models of A. Goldberg (1995, 2006) and W. Croft (2001), and construction grammars in the broader sense. The latter would then include, in addition to the former, Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar (1987, 1991), which shares some of the basic assumptions with construction grammars narrowly defined, but includes a number of specific features which set it apart from them.

Keywords

construction grammars; traditional functionalism; Cognitive Grammar; generative grammar; componential models; compositional models

Hrčak ID:

117054

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/117054

Publication date:

3.3.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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