Ten Lectures on Cognitive Semantics

In his ten Beijing lectures, Leonard Talmy represents the range of his work in cognitive semantics. This approach concerns the linguistic representation of conceptual structure: the patterns in which and processes by which conceptual content is organized in language.

About the author

Leonard Talmy, Ph.D. (1972), University of California, Berkeley, is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Director Emeritus, Center for Cognitive Science, at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is the author of a two-volume set on cognitive semantics and
of a book about to appear on linguistic targeting, both with MIT Press, as well as of numerous articles. He is the recipient of the 2012 Gutenberg Research Award.

Product details

• Authors: Leonard Talmy
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.02.2018
• EAN: 9789004349544
• ISBN: 978-90-04-34954-4
• No. of pages: 474
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 794 g
• Series: Distinguished Lectures in Cogn
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics