Cognitive-functional linguistics

Cognitive-functional approaches to grammar are particularly concerned with the meaning of linguistic structures, taking into account their cognitive and social context. Cognitive approaches focus in particular on the general cognitive principles and mechanisms underlying language and its use. Functional approaches to language, on the other hand, are more concerned with the principles of language use and with language as a means of communication and interaction.

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Jennifer Brunner (Institute for Linguistics):

  • usage-based
  • functional
  • prototype theory
  • Basic Linguistic Theory
  • Discourse Grammar

Dina El Zarka (Institute for Linguistics):

  • Usage-based approach
  • Construction Grammar
  • Exemplar Theory
  • Variation Linguistics

Johanna Fanta-Jende(Institute for German Studies):

Usage-based approach

Variation linguistics

Anouschka Foltz (Institute for English Studies):

  • experimental psycholinguistics
  • use-based approach

Katharina Gerhalter (Institute for Romance Studies):

  • Pragmatics
  • discourse
  • Variation Linguistics

Sabine Heinemann (Institute for Romance Studies):

  • cognitive semantics (especially metaphor theories, frame semantics)
  • usage-based approach

Bernhard Hurch (Institute for Linguistics):

  • Naturalness theory
  • natural phonology
  • prosody
  • morphology

Gunther Kaltenböck (Institute for English Studies):

  • Usage-based grammar
  • Construction Grammar
  • Cognitive Grammar
  • functionalist models
  • Discourse Grammar

Georg Marko (Institute for English Studies):

  • CADS (Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies)
  • CDA/CDS (Critical Discourse Analysis/Studies)

Veronika Mattes (Institute for Linguistics):

  • usage-based
  • functionalist theories
  • Naturalness Theory
  • Exemplar Based Theory
  • experimental psycholinguistics

Ineke Mennen (Institute for English Studies):

  • Usage-based approach
  • Exemplar Theory
  • Variation Linguistics

Sergei Monakhov (Institute for Linguistics):

  • Usage-based approach
  • Construction grammar
  • word-based (item-and-process) morphology

Ozan Mustafa (Institute for English Studies):

  • usage-based
  • Construction Grammar
  • Functional Discourse Grammar

Elisabeth Scherr (Institute for German Studies):

  • Function- or usage-based approach

Elnora ten Wolde (Institute for English Studies):

  • Functional Discourse Grammar
  • Construction Grammar
  • Cognitive Grammar
  • Language Models

Ralf Vollmann (Institute for Linguistics):

  • Cognitive Grammar
  • usage-based
  • functionalist models
  • constructivist approaches
  • naturalness theory
  • Viennese school of sociophonology

Anna Volodina (Institute for Linguistics):

  • Usage-based approach
  • Variation linguistics
  • Descriptive grammar of German