Cognitive Linguistics:

Foundations, Scope,
and Methodology

Edited by
Theo Janssen
Gisela Redeker

wDE

G
Mouton de Gruyter
Berlin • New York 1999
Contents

Introduction 1
Gisela Redeker and Theo Janssen

Assessing the cognitive linguistic enterprise 13

Ronald W. Langacker

Some contributions of typology to cognitive linguistics 61

and vice versa
William Croft

Methods and generalizations 95

Gilles Fauconnier

Compositionality and blending: semantic composition 129

in a cognitively realistic framework
Eve Sweetser

Idealist and empiricist tendencies in cognitive semantics 163

Dirk Geeraerts

Partial Autonomy. Ontology and methodology in 195

cognitive linguistics
Peter Harder

Grounding, mapping, and acts of meaning 223

Chris Sinha

List of contributors 257

Index of names 259
Subject index 263