My fellow Americans, I stand before you today to tell you that one stands on a podium and behind a lectern to deliver a speech. On this, I am a traditionalist. You might think the thing political ...

These lectures provide a basic introduction to the linguistic theory known as Cognitive Grammar. It is argued that a conceptualist semantics, well motivated in its own terms, provides the basis for a ...

This volume presents a synthesis of cognitive linguistic theory and research on first and second language acquistion, language processing, individual differences in linguistic knowledge, and on the ...