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FromtheEditors
FromtheEditors
ThisbookisarecordoftheseriesoflecturesRonaldLangackerdelivered
inLublin,Poland,inMay2014.Itwasthethirdseriesofthiskind,the
previoustwotakingplaceinNovember1993(asaspecialeventatthecon-
ferenceNewTrendsinSemanticsandLexicographyinKazimierzDolny)and
inMay2001inLublin.TesefirsttwoseriesweretranslatedintoPolishand
publishedasLangacker1995and2005–thistimewehavedecided(atleast
forthetimebeing)topublishthemintheoriginalEnglish.Terearetwo
majorreasonsforthisdecision.First,thesubjectmatterdiscussedisvery
profoundlybasedonEnglishdataandthetheorybeingdevelopedexplores
fundamentalcognitiveaspectsofthedata.Second,theideasproposedhere,
evenifnotallofthemtotallynew,arenovelenoughfortheEnglishreadership
tohopefullyappreciatetheirpresentation.AsProf.Langackerstateshimself
ononeoccasion,afullertreatmentoftheseissuesisstillpending–weare
happytoblazethetrailwiththisvolume.
TeauthorlookshereatonespecificareawithintheEnglishlanguage
system,anareathatisneverthelessdiverseandrichininternalintricacies:
nominalstructure.Tisrelativelynarrowfocusisaconsequenceofthede-
velopmentsthathavetakenplacesincehisfirstvisitin1993,whenCognitive
Grammarwasstillanewkidontheblock,theeventtakingplacenottoo
longafterthepublicationofthefirstvolumeofFoundations(Langacker1987)
andrathersoonaftertheappearanceofthesecondvolume(Langacker1991),
which–giventhepoliticalandeconomictransitionalperiodPolandwas
undergoingatthetime–wasnoteasilyavailableandrelativelylittleknown.
Itwasonlynaturalthatthosefirstlecturesweredevotedtothefundamental
tenetsofthemodel,therationalebehinditsconception,andtheintroduction
