Foundations of cognitive grammar

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe for three types of humorous texts in what ways construal operations are exploited, combined and embedded in humorous discourse, as well as the way in which they relate to the achievement of humorous effects.

TL;DR: Evidence is presented for the important role played by domain mapping in basic understanding of language organization and the basis for a realistic account of generalized inference and partial truth assignment from a cognitive perspective.

TL;DR: The early development of multiple sense types for the English prepositions in, on, at, to, for, from, with, by, and of has been charted on the basis of longitudinal data obtained from the CHILDES corpus for two English-speaking children as mentioned in this paper.