Ten Lectures on the Elaboration of Cognitive Grammar

Approx. XIII, 413 Pp. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34746-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 478 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 821 g

Reihe: Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics

This book reviews the basic claims and descriptive constructs of Cognitive Grammar, outlines major themes in its ongoing development, and applies these notions to central problems in grammatical analysis. The initial review covers conceptual semantics, the conceptual characterization of grammatical categories, grammatical constructions, and the architecture of a unified theory of language structure. Main themes in the framework’s development include the dynamicity of language structure, grammar as the implementation of semantic functions, systems of opposing elements to serve those functions, and organization in strata representing successive elaborations of a baseline structure. The descriptive application of these notions centers on nominal and clausal structure, with special emphasis on nominal grounding.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Langacker, Ronald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Additional Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

1Introduction

1The Constitution of Europe

2Philipp Melanchthon

3Prior Research

4Reformation of Historical Thought

5Melanchthon’s Historical Works

6Carion’s Chronicle

7Chapter Summaries

2The Fourth Monarchy and the Translatio Imperii

1Introduction

2Universal History and the Roman Empire

3Christian Historiography

4Late Antiquity and the Fourth Monarchy

5St. Augustine and the Six Ages

6Universal History in the Early Middle Ages

7The Four Monarchies in the High Middle Ages

8Translationes Imperii and theDonation of Constantine

9Papal-Imperial Chronicles

10Challenges to the Curial Theories

11Early Printed Chronicles

12The Germania Illustrata and Nauclerus’s Chronicle

13Conclusion

3Johann Carion of Bietigheim: The Berlin Court Astronomer

1Introduction

2Carion’s Early Career

3Sintflut of 1524

4A Second Flood Prediction

5Natural Art of Astrology

6The Dispute with Andreas Perlach

7Carion and Königsberg

8Carion and Melanchthon

9Melanchthon and Annius of Viterbo

10Carion’s 1532 Visit to Wittenberg

11Seventy Weeks of Daniel

12Celestial Signs and Portents

13Carion’s Career after 1532

14Conclusion

4Carion’s Chronicle: A Wittenberg View of the Past

1Introduction

2The Reformation of Form and Structure

3Translationes Imperii

4The Holy Roman Empire

5The Four Monarchies and the Turks

6The Wittenberg World Map

7The Turks in Carion’s Chronicle

8Ecclesiastical History

9The Melanchthon-Peucer Chronicle of 1572

10Melanchthon’s Revisions

11Caspar Peucer’s Revisions

12The Electoral College

13The Medieval Papacy

14Ecclesiastical History and Periodization

15Conclusion

5The Transmission and Reception of Carion’s Chronicle

1Introduction

2The Early Transmission of Carion’s Chronicle

3The Latin Transmission of the Carion-Melanchthon Chronicle

4Translations

5Carion’s Chronicle in the Catholic Context

6Johann Funck and the 1542 Turkish Campaign

7The 1546 Wittenberg Edition

8The Schmalkaldic War

9Unauthorized Editions of the Chronicle

10Melanchthon’s Revised Chronicle

11Caspar Peucer

12Peucer and the Chronicle

13Wittenberg and Frankfurt

14Wittenberg Chronicle

15The Fall of the Philippists

16Conclusion

6The Legacy of Wittenberg Historiography

1Introduction

2Jean Bodin’s Attack on German Political Thought

3The Initial German Response to Bodin

4The Fourth Monarchy and the Theologians

5The Fourth Monarchy and the Imperial Publicists

6The Fourth Monarchy and the Historians

7The Four Monarchies in the Graphic Arts

8The Last Days of the Fourth Monarchy

7Conclusion

Appendix A: Carion’s Chronicle – Textual Transmission

Appendix B: Carion’s Chronicle – Manuscript Notes

Appendix C: Carion’s Chronicle – Stemma of Editions

Appendix D: Carion’s Chronicle – Indices to the Editions

Appendix E: Carion’s Chronicle – Census of Editions

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ronald Langacker, Ph.D. (1966), University of Illinois, was Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego, until his retirement in 2003. He has published extensively in cognitive linguists and formulated the theory known as Cognitive Grammar.