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Peer reviewedLangacker, Ronald W. – Language Sciences, 1993
Some basic notions of cognitive grammar are introduced in a discussion that emphasizes the importance to linguistic semantics of the way in which we construe a perceived situation. It is concluded that developing an optimal account of semantic structure and of grammatical structure are best conceived as simultaneous, mutually informative…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedLangacker, Ronald W. – International Journal of American Linguistics, 1975
Jane Rosenthal's paper on relative clauses in Classical Nahuatl is discussed, and it is argued that she misses an important generalization. An alternative analysis to a class of relative pronouns and new rules for the distribution of relative pronouns are proposed. (SC)
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Classical Languages, Diachronic Linguistics, Linguistic Theory
