Functional and Cognitive Linguistics (grammar and typology).

The research project Mind-Bending Grammars innovatively combines language change research with research on the individual mind. In the past linguistics has overwhelmingly treated change as happening to an abstract object 'language'. But it is the minds of actual people that change language. Mind-Bending Grammars will greatly contribute to our understanding of the adaptive powers of adult cognition. The project specifically aims at making a breakthrough in two key issues in linguistic theory by tracing with the utmost detail step-by-step changes in grammatical constructions.

Keywords:COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS

Disciplines:Linguistics, Theory and methodology of linguistics, Other languages and literary studies