Ten Lectures on the Elaboration of Cognitive Grammar: (18 Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics)

This book reviews the basic claims and descriptive constructs of Cognitive Grammar, outlines major themes in its ongoing development, and applies these notions to central problems in grammatical analysis. The initial review covers conceptual semantics, the conceptual characterization of grammatical categories, grammatical constructions, and the architecture of a unified theory of language structure. Main themes in the framework’s development include the dynamicity of language structure, grammar as the implementation of semantic functions, systems of opposing elements to serve those functions, and organization in strata representing successive elaborations of a baseline structure. The descriptive application of these notions centers on nominal and clausal structure, with special emphasis on nominal grounding.

Table of Contents:
 Acknowledgements  Additional Acknowledgements  List of Illustrations  Abbreviations  1Introduction  1The Constitution of Europe  2Philipp Melanchthon  3Prior Research  4Reformation of Historical Thought  5Melanchthon’s Historical Works  6Carion’s Chronicle  7Chapter Summaries  2The Fourth Monarchy and the Translatio Imperii  1Introduction  2Universal History and the Roman Empire  3Christian Historiography  4Late Antiquity and the Fourth Monarchy  5St. Augustine and the Six Ages  6Universal History in the Early Middle Ages  7The Four Monarchies in the High Middle Ages  8Translationes Imperii and theDonation of Constantine  9Papal-Imperial Chronicles  10Challenges to the Curial Theories  11Early Printed Chronicles  12The Germania Illustrata and Nauclerus’s Chronicle  13Conclusion  3Johann Carion of Bietigheim: The Berlin Court Astronomer  1Introduction  2Carion’s Early Career  3Sintflut of 1524  4A Second Flood Prediction  5Natural Art of Astrology  6The Dispute with Andreas Perlach  7Carion and Königsberg  8Carion and Melanchthon  9Melanchthon and Annius of Viterbo  10Carion’s 1532 Visit to Wittenberg  11Seventy Weeks of Daniel  12Celestial Signs and Portents  13Carion’s Career after 1532  14Conclusion  4Carion’s Chronicle: A Wittenberg View of the Past  1Introduction  2The Reformation of Form and Structure  3Translationes Imperii  4The Holy Roman Empire  5The Four Monarchies and the Turks  6The Wittenberg World Map  7The Turks in Carion’s Chronicle  8Ecclesiastical History  9The Melanchthon-Peucer Chronicle of 1572  10Melanchthon’s Revisions  11Caspar Peucer’s Revisions  12The Electoral College  13The Medieval Papacy  14Ecclesiastical History and Periodization  15Conclusion  5The Transmission and Reception of Carion’s Chronicle  1Introduction  2The Early Transmission of Carion’s Chronicle  3The Latin Transmission of the Carion-Melanchthon Chronicle  4Translations  5Carion’s Chronicle in the Catholic Context  6Johann Funck and the 1542 Turkish Campaign  7The 1546 Wittenberg Edition  8The Schmalkaldic War  9Unauthorized Editions of the Chronicle  10Melanchthon’s Revised Chronicle  11Caspar Peucer  12Peucer and the Chronicle  13Wittenberg and Frankfurt  14Wittenberg Chronicle  15The Fall of the Philippists  16Conclusion  6The Legacy of Wittenberg Historiography  1Introduction  2Jean Bodin’s Attack on German Political Thought  3The Initial German Response to Bodin  4The Fourth Monarchy and the Theologians  5The Fourth Monarchy and the Imperial Publicists  6The Fourth Monarchy and the Historians  7The Four Monarchies in the Graphic Arts  8The Last Days of the Fourth Monarchy  7Conclusion Appendix A: Carion’s Chronicle – Textual Transmission Appendix B: Carion’s Chronicle – Manuscript Notes Appendix C: Carion’s Chronicle – Stemma of Editions Appendix D: Carion’s Chronicle – Indices to the Editions Appendix E: Carion’s Chronicle – Census of Editions Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Ronald Langacker, Ph.D. (1966), University of Illinois, was Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego, until his retirement in 2003. He has published extensively in cognitive linguists and formulated the theory known as Cognitive Grammar.