文章名：Cognitive (Construction) Grammar
作者： RONALD W. LANGACKER
刊名：Cognitive Linguistics
期数：20–1(2009)
摘要：Goldberg overstates the differences between Cognitive Grammar and Cognitive Construction Grammar. The former does not claim that a clause invariably inherits its profile from the verb; it has merely been suggested that the latter’s preference for monosemy may have been pushed too far. The matter can only be addressed given a specific definition of what is meant in saying that a verb ‘‘has’’ a certain sense. Also, the schematic meanings proposed in Cognitive Grammar for basic grammatical notions do not imply a ‘‘reductionist’’ or ‘‘essentialist’’ view based on classical categorization. Instead they complement the characterization of these notions as ‘‘metageneralizations over construction-specific categories’’, which otherwise begs the question of why the distributional patterns supporting such generalizations should be observed in the first place.
