Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies ›› 2014, Vol. 14 ›› Issue (07): 17-21.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2014.07.004

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Grammar Grounded in Use: Usage-based Theory in Cognitive Linguistics

SHANG Guowen   

  • Online:2014-07-28 Published:2020-07-25

Abstract: Cognitive Linguistics adopts a usage-based approach in research, which views linguistic structures as well as their organizing patterns as constructs emerging from language use. This paper first introduces the basic assumptions of usage-based paradigm, and then discusses the emergent account of grammar, followed by illustration of language acquisition, connectionist model in language processing and language evolution in usage-based approach. The usage-based theory, in the view of cognitive researchers, can provide adequate explanations for language system and its representations.

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