KOGNITIVNA GRAMATIKA I VRSTE RIJEČI
COGNITIVE GRAMMAR AND WORD CLASSES

Summary/Abstract: In line with its conceptual-semantic approach to language categories, Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 1987, 1991) identifies the following word classes: nominal profiles, which primarily include nouns, defied schematically as [THINGS], i.e. bounded regions in some domain, atemporal relational predications, which on the basis of the cognitive operation of summary scanning bring together a number of traditional word classes such as adjectives, prepositions, adverbs and conjunctions, and processes (verbs), as sequentally scanned relational predications with a temporal profile. The first part of the paper briefly discusses the mentioned basic categories. The second part looks in more detail into some marginal, i.e. hybrid parts of speech, which share with the other categories some of their basic features. Here we mean foremost relational nouns of the type friend or daughter, ordouble relational deverbal nouns of the type forgiveness, certain uses of the infinitive, stative existential verbs and possessive verbs, the past participle etc.

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