Dr. Daniel Wiechmann
Gast des GRK im Jahr 2010
Titel
Abstract | I am a philosophically inclined quantitative corpus linguist working from the perspective of a usage-based cognitive construction grammar (quite a mouthful). My current research is motivated by questions about why grammars are the way they are, why language users tend to exhibit processing difficulties with certain structures (and not others), and how the two questions are interrelated. My approach to these issues is grounded in the premise that linguistic knowledge is by its very nature probabilistic and analogy-based. From this view, I investigate effects of usage-frequency and cognitive entrenchment on shapes of grammars. |
Disziplin | Anglistik |
Sprachen | English, German |
Forschungsrichtung | Cognitive Grammar, Construction Grammar, Corpus Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Contrastive Linguistics |
Schlüsselbegriffe | Cognitive Grammar, Construction Grammar, Corpus Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Contrastive Linguistics |