Cognitive Contact Linguistics
Esme Zenner, Eline / Backus, Ad / Winter-Froemel, "Cognitive Contact Linguistics "
English | ISBN: 3110707993 | 2020 | 342 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
English | ISBN: 3110707993 | 2020 | 342 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
This volume serves to illustrate the promising insights to be gained when cross-fertilizing Cognitive Linguistics and contact linguistics, which each hold crucial ingredients to an encompassing study of contact-induced variation and change.
Combining the study of the individual mind with the study of shared context, bridging research on experience and perspective with research on variation and change, and tackling the methodological complexities that this empirical approach to mental categorization entails, help us determine how the meaningful units that make up language are categorized and structured in the bi- and multilingual mind and, by extension, in any human mind.
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