Ronald W. Langacker (born December 27, 1942) is a professor emeritus in the field of linguistics at the University of California, San Diego, where he has taught since 1966. He is best known as a founder of the cognitive linguistics movement and the creator of Cognitive Grammar, a type of construction grammar. December 27 is the 361st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... A professor is a senior teacher, lecturer and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... A professor is a senior teacher and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... Broadly conceived, linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and a linguist is someone who engages in this study. ... The University of California, San Diego (popularly known as UCSD) is a public, coeducational university located in La Jolla, California. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... Cognitive linguistics is a school of linguistics and cognitive science, which aims to provide accounts of language that mesh well with current understandings of the human mind, and is generally opposed to the more syntactocentric approaches to meaning in generative linguistics. ... Cognitive Grammar and construction grammar are aspects of cognition that is of interest to cognitive linguists, c. ... The term construction grammar (CxG) covers a family of theories, or models, of grammar that are based on the idea that the primary unit of grammar is the grammatical construction rather than the atomic syntactic unit and the rule that combines atomic units, and that the grammar of a language...

Partial bibliography

• Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, Volume I, Theoretical Prerequisites. Ronald W. Langacker. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1987. ISBN 0-8047-1261-1.
• Concept, Image, and Symbol: The Cognitive Basis of Grammar. Ronald W. Langacker. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991. ISBN 3-11-012863-2, ISBN 0-8992-5820-4.
• Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, Volume II, Descriptive Application. Ronald W. Langacker. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1991. ISBN 0-8047-1909-8.

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External links

• Ronald Langacker's UCSD faculty page