LINGUIST List 12.1007

Tue Apr 10 2001

Books: Cognitive Linguistics

Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara <naomilinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Kimberly Kahn, Cognitive Linguistics: Cognitive Interfaces by van de Zee & Nikanne
2. Kimberly Kahn, Cognitive Linguistics: Possessives in English by Taylor

COGNITIVE INTERFACES: Constraints on Linking Cognitive Information
Emile van de Zee, University of Lincolnshire & Humberside, and
Edited by Urpo Nikanne, University of Oslo

This book brings new perspectives to bear on the architecture of the
mind and the relationship between language and cognition. It
considers how information is linked in the mind between different
cognitive and expressive levels - so that people can, for example,
talk about what they see and act upon what they hear - and how these
linkages are and need to be constrained. The book is concerned in
particular with the perception and representation of spatial
structure. The authors, all psychologists and linguists, show that
insights can be gained from the joint deployment of theoretical
linguistic and experimental psychological research and the value of a
multi-disciplinary approach to the study of mind, brain, and language.

Contents: 

1. Introducing Cognitive Interfaces and Constraints on Linking Cognitive 
 Information, Emile van der Zee and Urpo Nikanne I: Constraints on the 
 Conceptual Structure to Syntactic Structure Interface 
2. Multiple Interfaces, Christer Platzack 
3. Constituent Linking Between Conceptual Structure and Syntactic
 Structure, Lars Hellan II: Constraints on the Conceptual Structure
 to Spatial Structure Interface 
4. Some Restrictions in Linguistic Expressions of Spatial Movement, 
 Urpo Nikanne 
5. Object Use and Object Location: The effect of function on spatial relations,
 Laura Carlson-Radvansky 
6. Retrieving Spatial Relations from Observation and Memory, David J. Bryant, 
 Barbara Tversky, and Margaret Lanca III: Constraints on the Lexical 
 Interface 
7. Why We can Talk about Bulging Barrels and Spinning Spirals:
 Curvature representation in the lexical interface, Emile van der Zee 
 IV: Constraints on 'Interfaces' from a Connectionistic Perspective 
8. Developing Relations, Michael Gasser, Eliana Colunga, and Linda B. Smith 
9. Temporal Bounds on Interfaces, Jon Slack

April 2001 272 pp.; 45 line illus
0-19-829962-1 paper $29.95
0-19-829961-3 cloth $70.00
Oxford University Press

POSSESSIVES IN ENGLISH: An Exploration in Cognitive Grammar
John R. Taylor, University of Otago, New Zealand

Taylor provides an in-depth analysis of possessive constructions in
English in terms of Cognitive Grammar, as developed by Ronald
Langacker and others. He also provides a wide-ranging critique of
alternative analyses, especially those derived from the Chomskyan
school.

1996 (paper March 2001) 384 pp.; 12 line illus
0-19-829982-6 paper $35.00
0-19-823586-0 cloth $90.00
Oxford University Press