Since the publication of Ron Langacker's monumental, two-volume Foundations of
Cognitive Grammar in 1987 and 1991, the cognitive approach to grammar has established …

In writing this book, I have drawn so much on the work of other linguists that few if any of my
ideas, except perhaps any mistaken ones, are original with me. I owe a particular debt to …

Sentences such as The road runs through the valley and The mountain range goes from
Canada to Mexico include a motion verb but express no explicit motion or state change. It is …

There is mounting evidence that language comprehension involves the activation of mental
imagery of the content of utterances (Barsalou, 1999; Bergen, Chang, & Narayan, 2004; …

Do we view the world differently if it is described to us in figurative rather than literal terms?
An answer to this question would reveal something about both the conceptual …

Manner-of-motion verbs are frequently used in English narratives to portray motion events in
vivid terms. This use of motion verbs contrasts with their use in non-narrative texts where the …

Linguistic Approaches to Literature (LAL) provides an international forum for researchers
who believe that the application of linguistic methods leads to a deeper and more far …

Dynamic conceptualization is a fundamental notion in cognitive linguistics. Abstract motion
is one type of dynamic conceptualization. It is said to structure descriptions of static scenes …

Many metaphor theorists argue that our mental experience of time is grounded in our
understanding of space, including motion through space. Results from recent experiments …

Experientialist semantics has contributed to a broader notion of linguistic meaning by
emphasizing notions such as construal, perspective, metaphor, and embodiment, but has …