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Cognitive Linguistics

ISSN: 1613-3641

Editor-in-chief: Dagmar Divjak

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Call for Editor in Chief

Deadline: 15 September 2023

Cognitive Linguistics is the official journal of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association and the flagship journal of the discipline. The current Editor-in-Chief, Professor Dagmar Divjak, is stepping down in June 2024 after 6 years in the role and we are looking to appoint a new Editor-in-Chief to lead the journal and the editorial team.

Cognitive Linguistics is keen to increase the diversity on its editorial team. We welcome applications from cognitive linguists in any region of the world, provided that the prospective post-holder is fluent in English. We particularly welcome candidates who are invested in increasing equality, diversity, and inclusion, and in supporting Open Science.

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Cognitive Linguistics presents a forum for linguistic research of all kinds on the interaction between language and cognition. The journal focuses on language as an instrument for organizing, processing and conveying information. Cognitive Linguistics is a peer-reviewed journal of international scope and seeks to publish only works that represent a significant advancement to the theory or methods of cognitive linguistics, or that present an unknown or understudied phenomenon.

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the structural characteristics of natural language categorization (such as prototypicality, cognitive models, metaphor, and imagery);
the functional principles of linguistic organization, as illustrated by iconicity;
the conceptual interface between syntax and semantics;
the experiential background of language-in-use, including the cultural background;
the relationship between language and thought, including matters of universality and language specificity

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Research Articles - these are substantive pieces presening original research, totalling between 8,000 and 10,000 words on first submission
Registered report - each year we have space for one registered report that tackles a core question in cognitive linguistics. See the registered reports guidelines for more information.
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Commentaries & Replies to Research Articles - with prior consent of the Editor-in-Chief only.
Special Issue proposals: We are currently committed for 2022; the next round of review is expected to take place in Autumn 2021, with publication (in print) expected early 2023.

Please contact cogling@degruyter.com with topics for a Review Paper, Commentary or Reply.
Note that we no longer accept Book Reviews.

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Cognitive Linguistics was founded by De Gruyter Mouton and Dirk Geeraerts in 1990. The first issue came out in February 1990.

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Volume 34 Issue 2

May 2023

Publicly Available July 17, 2023

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Research Articles

Publicly Available April 10, 2023

A chained metonymic approach to ίdὸ ‘eye’ constructional metonymies in Hausa

Mustapha Bala Tsakuwa, Xu Wen, Ibrahim Lamido

Page range: 165-196

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Unlike previous studies which generally seem to focus more on Hausa metaphorical expressions, this study investigates a wide range of uses of ίdὸ ‘eye’ in its constructional metonymy patterns in the language by exploring corpus data that contain over 300 eye-related expressions. We observe that some constructional metonymies maintain a set of fixed words and syntax in activating conceptual shifts and producing eye metonymies while others have semi-fixed patterns and produce the same metonymies. Lexical items like tsόkάlế , kὰn , ὰ , dὰ , and bὰsίrὰ among others are constant constituents in the constructional metonymies in which they appear. In the metonymic chaining, the basic mapping of eye metonymies occurs via the part for part relation under E-metonymies and the sub- for supercategory relation under C-metonymies. We also observe that E→E→C coding has the highest chained metonymic structure in the creation of the eye metonymies. Both attributive and predicative colligates motivate metonymic senses in the language. Finally, our analysis reveals that the eye is metonymically conceptualized and semantically extended to various target domains and produces metonymic conceptualizations that make the eye stand for vision, desire, envy, control, attention, perception, person, meeting, brain, intelligence, and so on.

Open Access May 24, 2023

Perspective-taking and intersubjectivity in oral narratives of people with a schizophrenia diagnosis: a cognitive linguistic viewpoint analysis

S. Linde van Schuppen, Kobie van Krieken, Simon A. Claassen, José Sanders

Page range: 197-229

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Disruptions in theory of mind faculties and the ability to relate to an intersubjective reality are widely thought to be crucial to schizophrenic symptomology. This paper applies a cognitive linguistic framework to analyze spontaneous perspective-taking in two corpora of stories told by people with a schizophrenia diagnosis. We elicited natural narrative language use through life story interviews and a guided storytelling task and analyzed the linguistic construal of viewpoint in these stories. For this analysis, we developed a reliable and widely applicable viewpoint model that allows for the categorization and quantification of speakers’ linguistic presentation and navigation of spatiotemporal domains. We found that our participants skillfully presented, navigated and embedded different narrative viewpoints through a variety of linguistic viewpoint devices. They presented complex viewpoints of other people in both the here-and-now of the interaction and the there-and-then of a narrative, and made use of transition markers to demarcate spatiotemporal discourse domains. We found no differences in viewpoint variables when comparing their guided stories to a control group. If problems with intersubjectivity are indeed an essential part of schizophrenia, an explanation of how this group can take on and navigate complex linguistic viewpoints in natural narrative interaction is called for.

April 21, 2023

Chinese synthetic verbs: a further challenge to manner/result complementarity on the basis of lexical root meaning analysis

Tianyu Li

Page range: 231-260

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This paper introduces Chinese synthetic verbs and analyses their contributions to debates in manner/result complementarity studies and cognitive typology studies. Chinese synthetic verbs simultaneously express manner information and path/result information, but encode them into separate root slots under Beavers and Koontz-Garboden’s (2012. Manner and result in the roots of verbal meaning. Linguistic Inquiry 43(3). 331–369) scopal modifier test, so they differ from English “manner+result verbs” and further challenge the manner/result complementarity hypothesis. Synthetic verbs followed by redundant path/result verbs constitute double-framing structures that twice encode the framing information, and the non-motion case, i.e., the “synthetic verb+result verb” structure, supplements Croft et al.’s (2010. Revising Talmy’s typological classification of complex event constructions. In Hans C. Boas (ed.), Contrastive studies in construction grammar , vol. 10, 201–235. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company) classification that only includes the motion case, so that Chinese synthetic verbs complement the discussion on double-framing structures. This paper thereby further falsifies the manner/result complementarity hypothesis and provides an overall illustration of the double-framing structure in cognitive typology. This paper also illustrates the diachronic changes of manner, which might be universal and await further investigation.

June 22, 2023

An assessment of the fourth law of Kuryłowicz: does prototypicality of meaning affect language change?

Isabeau De Smet

Page range: 261-296

Abstract

According to the (in)famous fourth law of Kuryłowicz (K4), when a morphological doublet arises in a language, the newer form becomes associated with the prototypical, basic meaning, while the old form takes a secondary meaning. This paper takes a first attempt at a more thorough inquiry of K4 to assess whether prototypicality of meaning has an effect on morphological change. Three studies on historical Dutch are taken on: - en versus - s plurals, the apocope of schwa and the apocope of - de. The effects of prototypicality are analysed both on a token level (differences in meaning within lemmas) as well as on a type level (differences between lemmas). As proxies for prototypicality of meaning (psycho)linguistic predictors are used, such as concreteness, age of acquisition, chronology of meaning, meaning frequency and metaphor. Results show no clear effect of prototypicality on a token level, but they do suggest an effect on a type level: more concrete meanings tend to show up more often with the newer variant. Yet these results may also be ascribed to iconicity as the newer variants in these cases are the shorter ones and concrete meanings tend to be represented by shorter words than abstract ones.

Open Access July 7, 2023

The complexity principle and the morphosyntactic alternation between case affixes and postpositions in Estonian

Jane Klavan, Ole Schützler

Page range: 297-331

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This paper investigates three morphosyntactic alternations in Estonian – those between the exterior locative cases allative, adessive and ablative and the corresponding postpositions peale ‘onto’, peal ‘on’ and pealt ‘off’. Based on the Complexity Principle (e.g., Rohdenburg, Günter. 2002. Processing complexity and the variable use of prepositions in English. In Hubert Cuyckens & Günter Radden (eds.), Perspectives on prepositions , 79–100. Tübingen: Niemeyer), we expect cognitively more complex constructions to use more explicit (i.e., morphologically more substantial) marking by means of a postposition. Further, we expect variation to be conditioned similarly in all three semantic categories. For each of the three alternations, a random sample of the two outcomes (case vs. postposition) from the Estonian National Corpus is used, resulting in 3,000 data points. Using properties of the Landmark phrase as independent variables in Bayesian mixed-effects logistic regression models, we predict the choice of postpositions over case-marked realisations. Of the patterns found, only the frequency-related one supports our complexity-related hypothesis. We conclude that the Complexity Principle, in its general form, has little explanatory power for the Estonian constructions at hand and, in particular, that the derived principle of ‘analytic support’ is not generally applicable. We show, however, that the grammatical knowledge of Estonian exterior locative cases and the corresponding postpositions is regulated by our three factors in a relatively uniform way.

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Journal Impact Factor	1.7	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
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Editorial

Editor-in-Chief
Dagmar Divjak
University of Birmingham
Department of Modern Languages & Department of English Language and Linguistics
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
UK
e-mail: cogling@degruyter.com

Consulting Editor for Methodology and Registered Reports
Petar Milin
University of Birmingham, UK

Consulting Editor for Theory
John Newman
University of Alberta, Canada & Monash University, Australia

Associate Editors
Martin Hilpert (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
Karen Sullivan (University of Queensland, Australia)
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Sherman Wilcox (University of New Mexico, USA)

Editorial Assistant
Dagmar Hanzlikova

Editorial Board
Antonio Barcelona (University of Córdoba, Spain)
William Croft (University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, USA)
Ewa Dabrowska (University of Birmingham, UK)
Holger Diessel (University of Jena, Germany)
Sarah Duffy (Northumbria University, UK)
Susanne Flach (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Ad Foolen (Radboud University, The Netherlands)
Dirk Geeraerts (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Raymond W. Gibbs (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA)
Stefan Th. Gries (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
Lynn Hou (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
Tuomas Huumo (University of Turku, Finland)
Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Seizi Iwata (Kansai University, Osaka, Japan)
Vsevolod Kapatsinski (University of Oregon, USA)
Ronald W. Langacker (University of California at San Diego, USA)
Natalia Levshina, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Jeannette Littlemore (University of Birmingham, UK)
Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez (Universidad de La Rioja, Spain)
Klaus-Uwe Panther (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Fey Parrill (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
Frank Polzenhagen (Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany)
Sally Rice (University of Alberta, Canada)
Hans Joerg Schmid (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany)
Dingfang Shu (Shanghai International Studies University, China)
Javier Valenzuela (University of Murcia, Spain)
Arie Verhagen (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Eva Zehentner (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Eline Zenner (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Jordan Zlatev (Lund University, Sweden)

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Online ISSN: 1613-3641
Print ISSN: 0936-5907
Type: Journal
Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
First published: March 10, 1990
Publication Frequency: 4 Issues per Year
Audience: institutes, libraries, linguists, literary scholars