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Exercises

Like in all other modules of General Linguistics the exercises in this section are grouped thematically and designed in three degrees of difficulty, marked by different colors:

• green: easy
• orange: moderate
• red: difficult

The Cognitive Linguistics Enterprise

• The nature of cognitive linguistics
  • exercise
• Historical background
  • exercise
• Universals and variation in language
  • Universal Grammar
  • Nativism
  • Georgian versus English
  • Restrictions and implications
  • Constraints on human conceptualization
  • Gestalt principles
  • Perception
  • Perception of the world
  • Research Piraha
• Language in use
  • Research exercise: What's the meaning of meh?

Cognitive Semantics

• Embodiment and conceptual structure
  • exercise
• The encyclopaedic view of meaning
  • Develop a semantic frame
  • Find the right frame
  • Help me finding the right frame!
  • COMMERCIAL EVENT frame
• Categorisation and cognitive models
  • Rate the items in each category
  • List criteria for rating items
• Metaphor and Metonymy
  • Metaphor characteristics
  • Metaphors
  • Identify metaphors I
  • Identify metaphors II
  • Metaphors & colour categories
  • Source concepts
  • Metonymy characteristics
  • Relationships concerning metonymy
  • Metaphor or Metonymy?
• Word meaning and radial categories
  • exercise
• Meaning construction and mental spaces
  • exercise
• Conceptual blending

Cognitive approaches to grammar

• Conceptual basis of grammar
  • exercise
• Word classes
  • exercise
• Constructions
  • exercise
• Tense, aspect, mood and voice
  • exercise
• Construction grammar
  • exercise
• Grammaticalization
  • exercise