Remarks on nominal grounding

Langacker, Ronald W.

doi:10.1075/fol.11.1.05lan

Article published In: Grounding and headedness in the noun phrase
Edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete
[Functions of Language 11:1] 2004
► pp. 77–113

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Remarks on nominal grounding

Ronald W. Langacker | University of California, San Diego

Published online: 30 May 2004

https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.11.1.05lan

The problems posed by nominal structure and nominal reference are notoriously subtle and complex. Though fairly extensive, their treatment in Cognitive Grammar (CG) has thus far been partial, preliminary, and scattered in numerous publications. The synthesis attempted here can hardly overcome the first two limitations. It may however provide a useful way of framing the issues and suggest some promising lines of attack.

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