Cognitive Foundations of Linguistic Usage Patterns

There is an increasing awareness in linguistics that linguistic patterns can be explained with recourse to general cognitive processes. The contributions collected in this volume pursue such a usage-based cognitive linguistic approach by presenting empirical investigations of lexical and grammatical patterns and probing into their implications for the relations between language structure, use and cognition.



Hans-Jörg Schmid and Susanne Handl, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.