文档介绍：Cognitive English Grammar
Cognitive Linguistics in Practice (CLiP)
A text book series which aims at introducing students of language and
linguistics, and scholars from neighboring disciplines, to established and new
fields in language research from a cognitive perspective. Titles in the series
are written in an attractive, reader-friendly and self-explanatory style with
assigments, and are tested for classroom use at university level.
Executive Editor
Günter Radden
University of Hamburg
Editorial Board
René Dirven Ted . Sanders
University of Duisburg-Essen University of Utrecht
Suzanne Kemmer Soteria Svorou
Rice University San Jose State University
Kee Dong Lee Elżbieta Tabakowska
Yonsei University Cracow University
Klaus-Uwe Panther Marjolijn H. Verspoor
University of Hamburg University of Groningen
Johanna Rubba
California Polytechnic State University
Volume 2
Cognitive English Grammar
Günter Radden and René Dirven
Cognitive
English Grammar
Günter Radden
University of Hamburg
René Dirven
University of Duisburg-Essen
John Benjamins pany
Amsterdam / Philadelphia
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Radden, Günter.
Cognitive English grammar / Gunter Radden, Rene Dirven.
p. cm. -- (Cognitive linguistics in practice, issn 1388-6231 ; v. 2)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. English language--Grammar. 2. Cognitive grammar. I. Dirven, René. II. Title.
2007
415--dc22 2007012165
ISBN 978 90 272 1903 9 (eur) / 978 1 55619 663 8 (us) (Hb; alk. paper)
978 90 272 1904 6 (eur) / 978 1 55619 664 5 (us) (Pb; alk. paper)
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