Abstract

Abstract Cognitive Grammar—the subject of this book—is the name which Ronald Langacker has given to a theory of language which he has been developing since the mid-1970s.1 Initially, Cognitive Grammar occupied a very marginal place in the theoretical linguistic landscape. Over the years, as the theory has developed and become more widely known, it has attracted increasing numbers of adherents and sympathizers. There is now a sizeable literature which has applied the theory of Cognitive Grammar to a wide range of linguistic issues, in a variety of languages.

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