Ten Lectures on Language as Cognition

Dagmar Divjak, Petar Milin

ISBN 10: 9004506500 / ISBN 13: 9789004506503

Published by Brill, NL, 2023

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Merging insights from cognitive linguistic theories of language and learning theories originating within psychology, Divjak and Milin present a new paradigm that has computational modelling at its core. They showcase the power of this interdisciplinary approach for linguistic theory, methodology and description. Through a series of detailed case studies that model usage of the English article system, the Polish aspectual system, English tense/aspect contrasts and the Serbian case system they show how computational models anchored in learning can provide a simple and comprehensive account of how intricate phenomena that have long defied a unified treatment could be learned from exposure to usage alone. As such, their models form the basis for a first rigorous test of a core assumption of usage-based linguistics: that of the emergence of structure from use.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ten Lectures on Language as Cognition
• Publisher: Brill, NL
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004506500
• ISBN 13: 9789004506503
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.5W x 2.4H x 23.5D centimeters 15.5 centimeters width by 2.4 centimeters height by 23.5 centimeters depth
• Weight: 613 grams

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Synopsis

Merging insights from cognitive linguistic theories of language and learning theories originating within psychology, Divjak and Milin present a new paradigm that has computational modelling at its core. They showcase the power of this interdisciplinary approach for linguistic theory, methodology and description. Through a series of detailed case studies that model usage of the English article system, the Polish aspectual system, English tense/aspect contrasts and the Serbian case system they show how computational models anchored in learning can provide a simple and comprehensive account of how intricate phenomena that have long defied a unified treatment could be learned from exposure to usage alone. As such, their models form the basis for a first rigorous test of a core assumption of usage-based linguistics: that of the emergence of structure from use.

About the Author

Dagmar Divjak obtained her Ph.D. in 2004 from KU Leuven (Belgium). She is a Professor of Cognitive Linguistics and Language Cognition at the University of Birmingham, UK. Among other things, she is the author of Frequency in Language (2019, CUP), Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cognitive Linguistics (2018-) and Co-Editor of the Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (Mouton De Gruyter, 2015/2019).

Petar Milin obtained his Ph.D. in 2004 from the University of Belgrade (Serbia). He is a Professor of the Psychology of Language and Language learning at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the third edition of Elsevier’s Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics, and Consulting Editor for Methodology and Registered Reports of the journal Cognitive Linguistics (2018-).