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This book approaches the field of contrastive linguistics from a comparative and robust perspective that combines the tenets of construction grammar and cognitive linguistics. In doing so, it shows how their integration can help to successfully enhance research on contrastivity, by means of updated theoretical frameworks and applied methodologies that combine language and thought. It compares ten different languages and offers analyses of constructions at all levels of the linguistic organization, identifying the cognitive motivations that instantiate the linguistic data retrieved from corpora. Relevant to both cognitive and non-cognitive linguists interested in variation and contrastive approaches, as well as graduate students in these areas, this book makes a significant contribution to existing work on the various types of constructional and discourse-based phenomena in modern languages.

Contrastive linguistics. --- Applied linguistics. --- Comparative linguistics. --- Philology. --- Translating and interpreting. --- Lexicology. --- Applied Linguistics. --- Comparative Linguistics. --- Languages. --- Language Translation. --- Lexicolopgy / Vocabulary.

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Cognitive grammar --- Grammar --- Psycholinguistics

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This volume addresses the constructional variability with transitive and causative verbs from the point of view of their respective action and motion patterns. Drawing on the theoretical advances registered in cognitive approaches to language (Cognitive Grammar, Construction Grammar and space semantics), the papers substantiate new interpretations and adduce empirical evidence from various languages to refine or adjust existing analyses of transitivity and causation. The different contributions all address the crucial question of how concrete and abstract notions of human behavior drive linguistic expressions. Cognitive linguists consider that linguistic competence functions in terms of complex conceptual units: the native speaker knows and manipulates conceptual blocks without paying further attention to their constitutive parts or their internal organization. However, as this volume illustrates, the role of the constitutive parts and their internal organization cannot simply be reduced to zero. A multidimensional approach to construction schemas is at stake. That is, the speaker applies proper embodied subroutines to build a coherent meaning, but the construction schemas are also rooted in the linguistic patterns the speaker and hearer are familiar with. The volume is primarily intended for scholars working within cognitive-semantic research at large. Given its theoretical and applied character (in the sense of giving empirical evidence for specific problems in the grammar), the volume will also be of great interest to anyone concerned with syntactic processes, construction grammar or with the cognitive structure of discourse. The descriptive and theoretical insights indeed dwell on areas that are currently dealt with in modern linguistics.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Predicate (Grammar) --- Verb phrase --- Verb phrase. --- Phrasal verb --- Predicate --- Verbals --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Cognitive Linguistics. --- Semantics.

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Since the beginning of her career, Professor Sabine De Knop has been doing research within the frameworks of Cognitive and Contrastive Linguistics and has mainly distinguished herself in three research areas: Language & Cognition, Construction Grammar and Applied linguistics. This volume brings together a range of contributions which open up new perspectives on these three topics, either within one language or from a contrastive perspective. They are written by linguists who have worked with Professor Sabine De Knop at some point in her career. The papers propose new theoretical and empirical insights as well as innovative pedagogical practices in the fields of language and proficiency. Professorin Sabine De Knop arbeitet seit Beginn ihrer Karriere im Bereich der kognitiven und kontrastiven Linguistik und zeichnet sich vor allem in drei Forschungsbereichen aus: Sprache & Kognition, Konstruktionsgrammatik und Angewandte Linguistik & Fremdsprachendidaktik. Diese Festschrift besteht aus einer Reihe von Beiträgen, die sich mit einer oder mehreren Sprachen befassen und ein neues Licht auf diese drei Themen werfen. Die Beiträge stammen von SprachwissenschaftlerInnen, die im Laufe ihrer Karriere mit Professorin Sabine De Knop zusammengearbeitet haben, und diskutieren sowohl theoretische und empirische Erkenntnisse als auch innovative pädagogische Ansätze in der Fremdsprachendidaktik.

Language & Linguistics --- Linguistique cognitive --- Linguistique contrastive --- Grammaire de construction --- Didactique des langues étrangères --- Cognitive Linguistics --- Contrastive Linguistics --- Construction Grammar --- Foreign Language Teaching --- Kognitive Linguistik --- Kontrastive Linguistik --- Konstuktionsgrammatik --- Fremdsprachendidaktik