兰盖克认知语法讲座.doc

兰盖克认知语法讲座 our truest gratitude to Prof. Langacker for his line-by-line proofreading of the transcripts. However, any errors or discrepancies between the printed version and the video remain our responsibility. Gao Yuan Thomas Fuyin Li gao-yuan@ thomasli@ thomaslifuyin@ Lecture One Conceptual Semantics Lecture Two Dynamicity, Fictivity and Scanning Lecture Three Symbolic Grammar and Constructions Lecture Four Constructional Integration and Grammaticization Lecture Five Topic, Subject, and Possessor Lecture Six Double Subject Constructions Lecture Seven Locatives Lecture Eight Possession, Location, and Existence Lecture Nine Voice :. Lecture Ten Impersonals Preface The present text, entitled Ten Lectures on Cognitive Grammar by Ronald Langacker, is a transcribed version of lectures given by Ronald Langacker in Beijing in April 2006. Prof. Langackers lectures are part of a lecture series hosted by the Department of Foreign Languages and the Research Institute of Foreign Languages of Beihang University. Also, this text is one of the Eminent Linguists Lecture Series, edited by us. It is our hope that the publication of this book--accompanied by its video-disc counterpart--will encourage cognitive linguistic studies in the Chinese mainland. It was due to Prof. Langackers pioneering and seminal contribution to Cognitive Linguistics that a large audience was attracted to Beijing from various parts of China as well as from a number of neighboring countries. Prof. Langacker has done a great deal to establish Cognitive Linguistics as a serious academic approach to language. He was one of the main initiators of the Cognitive Linguistics Research series and the journal Cognitive Linguistics, both started in 1990 and published by Mouton de Gruyter. Prof. Langacker has published 16 books and over 100 articles, supervised 31 doctoral students, and spons