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Cognitive Linguistics

ISSN: 1613-3641

Editor-in-chief: Dagmar Divjak

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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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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.

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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 33 Issue 4

November 2022

Publicly Available January 9, 2023

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Research Articles

Publicly Available November 14, 2022

Comparing linguistic and cultural explanations for visual search strategies

Brent Wolter, Chi Yui Leung, Shaoxin Wang, Shifa Chen, Junko Yamashita

Page range: 623-657

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Abstract

Visual search studies have shown that East Asians rely more on information gathered through their extrafoveal (i.e., peripheral) vision than do Western Caucasians, who tend to rely more on information gathered using their foveal (i.e., central) vision. However, the reasons for this remain unclear. Cognitive linguists suggest that the difference is attributable linguistic variation, while cultural psychologists contend it is due to cultural factors. The current study used eye-tracking data collected during a visual search task to compare these explanations by leveraging a semantic difference against a cultural difference to determine which view best explained strategies used on the task. The task was administered to Chinese, American, and Japanese participants with a primary focus on the Chinese participants’ behaviors since the semantic difference aligned the Chinese participants with the Americans, while their cultural affiliation aligned them with the Japanese participants. The results indicated that the Chinese group aligned more closely with the American group on most measures, suggesting that semantic differences were more important than cultural affiliation on this particular task. However, there were some results that could not be accounted for by the semantic differences, suggesting that linguistic and cultural factors might affect visual search strategies concurrently.

December 9, 2022

Exposure and emergence in usage-based grammar: computational experiments in 35 languages

Jonathan Dunn

Page range: 659-699

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This paper uses computational experiments to explore the role of exposure in the emergence of construction grammars. While usage-based grammars are hypothesized to depend on a learner’s exposure to actual language use, the mechanisms of such exposure have only been studied in a few constructions in isolation. This paper experiments with (i) the growth rate of the constructicon, (ii) the convergence rate of grammars exposed to independent registers, and (iii) the rate at which constructions are forgotten when they have not been recently observed. These experiments show that the lexicon grows more quickly than the grammar and that the growth rate of the grammar is not dependent on the growth rate of the lexicon. At the same time, register-specific grammars converge onto more similar constructions as the amount of exposure increases. This means that the influence of specific registers becomes less important as exposure increases. Finally, the rate at which constructions are forgotten when they have not been recently observed mirrors the growth rate of the constructicon. This paper thus presents a computational model of usage-based grammar that includes both the emergence and the unentrenchment of constructions.

August 12, 2022

Bilingual processing of verbal and constructional information in English dative constructions: effects of cross-linguistic influence

Hyunwoo Kim, Yunchuan Chen, Xueyan Liu

Page range: 701-726

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This study investigated the role of cross-linguistic influence in L2 learners’ integration of a verb and a construction during online English sentence processing. In a self-paced reading task, L1-English speakers and Chinese-L1 learners of English read the English double-object and prepositional dative constructions with verbs whose Chinese translation equivalents are either compatible or incompatible with each dative form. When including only a subset of trials for which participants provided expected translations for the target sentences (i.e., translating the English prepositional dative construction into a Chinese prepositional dative sentence and translating the English double-object construction into a Chinese double-object sentence), the effect of cross-linguistic influence emerged only in a certain type of verbs. When including all trials in the analysis, we found the effect of cross-linguistic influence for all verb types. These results provide some evidence that the cross-linguistic activation of verbs can influence verb-construction integration in L2 processing. The study highlights how bilingual co-activation of verbs extends beyond the lexical and structural levels to influence the integration of multiple sources of information.

Open Access September 22, 2022

Assessing the complexity of lectal competence: the register-specificity of the dative alternation after give

Alexandra Engel, Jason Grafmiller, Laura Rosseel, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

Page range: 727-766

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Recent evidence suggests that probabilistic grammars may be modulated by communication mode and genre. Accordingly, the question arises how complex language users’ lectal competence is, where complexity is proportional to the extent to which choice-making processes depend on the situation of language use. Do probabilistic constraints vary when we talk to a friend compared to when we give a speech? Are differences between spoken and written language larger than those within each mode? In the present study, we aim to approach these questions systematically. Guided by theorizing in cognitive (socio)linguistics and using logistic regression based on corpus materials, we analyzed the dative alternation with give ( The government gives farmers money vs. The government gives money to farmers ) in four broad registers of English: spoken informal, spoken formal, written informal, and written formal. Corpus analysis was supplemented with a scalar rating experiment. Results suggest that language users’ probabilistic grammars vary as a function of register.

Open Access October 17, 2022

Force dynamics as the path to the Spanish subjunctive

Francisco Javier García Yanes

Page range: 767-800

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The causative construction poses a challenge to all mainstream approaches to Spanish mood. Mejías-Bikandi, Errapel. 2014. A cognitive account of mood in complements of causative predicates in Spanish. Hispania 97(4), 651–665, elaborating on his previous approach (Mejías-Bikandi, Errapel. 1998. Presupposition and old information in the use of the subjunctive mood in Spanish. Hispania 81(4), 941–948), which associates the indicative to information that is pragmatically asserted (i.e., presented as both true and new), claims that the use of the subjunctive in the complements of volitive and causative verbs results from the fact that these complements are not independently grounded and so cannot be asserted. His proposal, though, raises some serious objections. In this paper, an alternative account is presented, whereby the use of the subjunctive in this context is understood as reflecting the antagonist’s viewpoint and epistemic assessment on the goal process within a force dynamics pattern.

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Impact Factor	1.796
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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)
Paul Chilton (Lancaster University, UK)
William Croft (University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, USA)
Ewa Dabrowska (University of Birmingham, UK)
Holger Diessel (University of Jena, Germany)
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)
Zoltán Kövecses (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)
Ronald W. Langacker (University of California at San Diego, USA)
Jeannette Littlemore (University of Birmingham, UK)
Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez (Universidad de La Rioja, Spain)
Irene Mittelberg (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Klaus-Uwe Panther (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Fey Parrill (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
Frank Polzenhagen (University of Koblenz-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)
Jörg Zinken (University of Portsmouth, UK)
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