Summary
Lecture 1 Introduction to a cognitive view on language
1.1 Basic postulates of cognitive linguistics
1.2 The structure of grammar
1.3 The emergence of grammar:a usage-based view
1.4 What is cognitive about cognitive linguistics?
1.5 Concluding remarks
Lecture 2 Usage-based linguistics and its methodological consequences
2.1 Introduction
2.2 A constructional view on linguistic knowledge
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Lecture 3 Lexical-paradigmatic analysis of lexical causatives(synchronic perspective)
Lecture 4 Lexical-paradigmatic analysis of lexical causatives(diachrony perspective)
Lecture 5 A cognitive lexical semantic analysis of posture verbs
Lecture 6 A cognitive lexical semantic analysis of placement verbs
Lecture 7 Grammaticalization of(Dutch) posture verbs to grammatical markers
Lecture 8 Diachronic perspectives on posture and placement verbs
Lecture 9 Typological perspectives on location
Lecture 10 Two case studies in grammaticalization
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