Instruction Grammar

From Perception via Grammar to Action

• Author(s): Simon Kasper,
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• Pages: 548
• ISBN_10: 3110430150
  ISBN_13: 9783110430158
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Grammar & Punctuation , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Syntax ,

Description:...

Bringing together evidence from natural and social sciences, the work introduces the non-reductionist Instruction Grammar programme. Viewed from within the practicalities of the lifeworld, utterances are described as instructions to simulate perceptions and attributions for action. The approach provides solutions to long-standing philosophical problems of cognitive grammar theories and traditionally puzzling syntactic phenomena.