The last decades have seen the rise of nonmainstream frameworks in the fields of linguistics and cognitive science which reject the traditional view of language as an innate, autonomous faculty. According to these approaches. language is a product of the interplay between domain-general cognitive principles and social interactions. This book introduces Embodied Construction Grammar, a recent enterprised designed to provide this conception of language as intertwined with the rest of cognition with a computational dimension. After introducing the theoretical foundations of the model at length,...
The last decades have seen the rise of nonmainstream frameworks in the fields of linguistics and cognitive science which reject the traditional view o...