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1319
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1978 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Ronald W. Langacker is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. The research focus covers a range of topics within language and cognitive studies, reflecting contributions to multiple disciplines including arts and humanities, psychology, and artificial intelligence.

The main fields of study associated with Ronald W. Langacker include:

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Psychology

Their work spans several subfields, specifically:

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Artificial Intelligence

The primary topics addressed in their research are:

  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Linguistics and Terminology Studies
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques

Recent publications demonstrate a focus on language structures and cognitive frameworks. These include:

  • Trees, assemblies, chains, and windows (2020), published in Constructions and Frames
  • Levels of Reality (2023), published in Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
  • Subjectification (2020), published in Veredas - Revista de Estudos Linguísticos

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Constructions and Frames
  • Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
  • Veredas - Revista de Estudos Linguísticos

Ronald W. Langacker has not been noted for frequent collaboration with specific co-authors based on available data.

The professional recognition includes the award of Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1978.

Best Publications

  • Foundations of cognitive grammar

    Ronald W. Langacker

  • Cognitive Grammar: A Basic Introduction

    Ronald W. Langacker

  • Concept, image, and symbol

    Ronald W. Langacker

  • Grammar and conceptualization

    Ronald W. Langacker

  • Foundations of Cognitive Grammar: Volume I: Theoretical Prerequisites

    Ronald Langacker

  • Reference-point constructions

    Ronald W. Langacker

  • Discourse in Cognitive Grammar

    Ronald W. Langacker

  • An Introduction to Cognitive Grammar

    Ronald W. Langacker

  • Investigations in Cognitive Grammar

    Ronald W. Langacker

  • A usage-based model

    Ronald W. Langacker

  • Raising and Transparency.

    Ronald W. Langacker

  • Observations and speculations on subjectivity

    Ronald W. Langacker

  • Space Grammar, Analysability, and the English Passive.

    Ronald W. Langacker

  • Passives and Their Meaning.

    Ronald W. Langacker;Pamela Munro

  • Essentials of Cognitive Grammar

    Ronald W. Langacker

  • Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind

    Ronald W. Langacker;George Lakoff

  • Constituency, dependency, and conceptual grouping

    Ronald W. Langacker

  • An overview of cognitive grammar

    Ronald W. Langacker

  • The Form and Meaning of the English Auxiliary.

    Ronald W. Langacker

  • Assessing the cognitive linguistic enterprise

    Ronald W. Langacker

  • Grounding Cognition: Dynamicity, Fictivity, and Scanning: The Imaginative Basis of Logic and Linguistic Meaning

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  • 2. Syntactic Reanalysis

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  • Constructing the meanings of personal pronouns

    Ronald W. Langacker

  • Meaning and the Structure of Language

    Ronald W. Langacker;Wallace L. Chafe

  • 7. Integration, grammaticization, and constructional meaning

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Frequent Co-Authors

John R. N. Taylor
John R. N. Taylor University of Pretoria
René Dirven
René Dirven University of Duisburg-Essen
George Lakoff
George Lakoff University of California, Berkeley

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