Is Cognitive Grammar a Usage-Based Model? Towards a Realistic Account of English Sentential Complements
Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: Cognitive Grammar (Langacker FCG1, FCG2) is commonly described as a usagebased model, a label applied to grammatical approaches which purport to give “substantial importance to the actual use of the linguistic system and a speaker’s knowledge of this use” (Langacker FCG1: 494). This paper examines this claim in the light of the Cognitive Grammar research on English sentential complements, and confronts its findings with empirical data on complementation retrieved from several computerized corpora of Present-day British and American English.
Author: Teresa Fanego
Institution: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2292289784