La cognition dans le temps

The book series Linguistische Arbeiten (LA) publishes high-quality work in linguistics that addresses current issues in synchrony and diachrony, theoretically or empirically oriented.

The articles in this volume are revised versions of papers presented at an international colloquium in Munich in 2001. With special reference to French, the authors attempt a cognitive interpretation of language features and texts from a decidedly historical viewpoint. Implicit in the project is the hope that 'cognitive history' will be able to establish itself as a third approach alongside external history (largely event-based) and internal history (derived from the structuralist model). Among the topics addressed are schematization, conceptualization, lexical variation, and enunciation.

Klappentext
Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.

Inhalt
Table des matières: Peter Blumenthal/Jean-Emmanuel Tyvaert, Présentation. - Martin G. Becker, L'évolution cognitive et le principe 'figure/ground' dans l'organisation textuelle: l'exemple des chroniques. - Peter Blumenthal, Histoire cognitive d'un verbe 'mental': comprendre. - Ekkehard Eggs, Processus inférentiels et tropiques: construction et changement de sens. - Zlatka Guentchéva, Entre: préposition et préfixe. - Michael Herslund, Le pluriel de l'article indéfini en ancien français. - Peter Koch, Qu'est-ce que le cognitif? - Claude Muller, Naissance et évolution des constructions clivées en 'c'est ... que ...': de la focalisation sur l'objet concret à la focalisation fonctionnelle. - Mireille Piot, L'expression de la 'cause', de la 'finalité' et de la 'conséquence' en français, espagnol et italien: les conjonctions pour et leurs équivalents, en synchronie et diachronie. - Charlotte Schapira, A la recherche du référent: la sémantique du proverbe. - Lene Schosler, Le rôle de la valence pour une classification sémantique des verbes. - Jean-Emmanuel Tyvaert, Une tentative d'unification de la diversité adverbiale.