Cognitive linguistics research – 15 – Berlin – New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999. — 279 p. — ISBN 3-11-016163-X, ISBN 3-11-016164-8.Series editors: René Dirven, Ronald W. Langacker, John R. TaylorThe idea for this volume originated in the Organizing Committee of the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Amsterdam 1997). We could never have realized it without the enthusiasm and cooperation of the plenary speakers at that conference, who agreed to focus their plenaries on foundational and methodological issues of Cognitive Linguistics, and most of whom then prepared a chapter for this volume.
The initial versions of the chapters and of the Introduction were read by Melissa Bowerman, Bill Croft, Gilles Fauconnier, Dirk Geeraerts, Peter Harder, Ron Langacker, John Nerbonne, Chris Sinha, Eve Sweetser, and Marjolijn Verspoor. We are very grateful for their thorough and constructive commentary.
We wish to thank the Series Editors and Anke Beck, Christiane Graefe, Katja Huder, and Monika Wendland of Mouton de Gruyter for their support, patience, and helpful advice; the Department of Language and Communication at the University of Groningen and the Stichting Neerlandistiek of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam for their material and financial support; and, last not least, Rogier Nieuweboer, Nel Courtz, and the Helpdesk staff of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen for their technical advice and assistance.Contents.Introduction. Gisela Redeker and Theo Janssen.
Assessing the cognitive linguistic enterprise. Ronald W. Langacker.
Some contributions of typology to cognitive linguistics and vice versa. William Croft.
Methods and generalizations. Gilles Fauconnier.
Compositionality and blending: semantic composition in a cognitively realistic framework. Eve Sweetser.
Idealist and empiricist tendencies in cognitive semantics. Dirk Geeraerts.
Partial Autonomy. Ontology and methodology in cognitive linguistics. Peter Harder.
Grounding, mapping, and acts of meaning. Chris Sinha.List of contributors.
Index of names.
Subject index.
