本稿为”国际认知语言学前言课题讲座”丛书之一，包含作者在不同场合下所做的10个讲座的文字版，主要围绕认识语言学研究领域的诸多热点问题研究展开，对很多备受关注的语言词句和语言现象进行了深入浅出的分析和解释。全稿分为两个部分，第一部分（第1, 2个讲座）构建全书总体框架，第二部分（第3-10个讲座）分别聚焦不同个案研究，如共时和历时的角度下英语致使词的范式、荷兰语中staan（stand）、liggen（lie）和zitten（sit）三个姿态动词（posture verb）以及它们怎样被语法化为进行体的标记词、方位动词（placement verb）的特点及其与姿态动词的对比，以及类型学视角下的一些其他语法现象。

马尔腾·莱蒙斯是国际认知语言学领域的领军学者，多年来从事语言学研究，成果丰硕，影响深远。他是法国认知语言学协会的创立者和首任主席，曾任国际认知语言学协会主席、国际期刊CogniTextes主编，现任法国里尔大学教授。本书为其10次讲座的文字版，围绕认知语言学研究领域的诸多热点问题展开，对很多备受关注的语言词句和语言现象进行了深入浅出的分析和阐释。该系列讲座受到语言学研究者和高校师生的热烈欢迎，文字版将惠及更多读者。

Summary
Lecture 1 Introduction to a cognitive view on language
1.1 Basic postulates of cognitive linguistics
1.2 The structure of grammar
1.3 The emergence of grammar: a usage-based view
1.4 What is cognitive about cognitive linguistics
1.5 Concluding remarks
Lecture 2 Usage-based linguistics and its methodological consequences
2.1 Introduction
2.2 A constructional view on linguistic knowledge
2.3 Defining constructions
2.4 From constructs to constructions
2.5 From usage to grammar and back
2.6 Concluding remarks
Lecture 3 Lexical-paradigmatic analysis of lexical causatives (synchronic
perspective)
3.1 The lexical-paradigmatic approach
3.2 Case study 1: The (transitive) objectless construction
3.3 Case study 2: The causative alternation
3.4 Concluding remarks
Lecture 4 Lexical-paradigmatic analysis of lexical causatives (diachronic
perspective)
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The ergativization of intransitives
4.3 The ergativization of transitives
4.4 Some particular paradigmatic changes
4.5 Concluding remarks
Lecture 5 A cognitive lexical semantic analysis of posture verbs
5.1 Introduction
5.2 A cognitive account of (Dutch) posture verbs
5.3 A look at learner language
5.4 Posture verbs in other languages
5.5 Concluding remarks
Lecture 6 A cognitive lexical semantic analysis of placement verbs
6.1 Posture and placement verbs
6.2 Aspect-causative lexicalization patterns
6.3 Dutch placement verbs
6.4 Concluding remarks
Lecture 7 Grammaticalization of (Dutch) posture verbs to grammatical
markers
7.1 From spatial to progressive
7.2 Locational progressive constructions in Dutch
7.3 Comparison of Pos and PREP progressives
7.4 Concluding remarks
Lecture 8 Diachronic perspectives on posture and placement verbs
8.1 Posture verbs in Germanic languages
8.2 The demise of posture verbs in English
8.3 T he de mise of set and the rise of put
8.4 Concluding remarks
Lecture 9 Typological perspectives on location
9.1 Typological perspectives on motion and location
9.2 Cross-linguistic differences in locative expressions
9.3 Concluding remarks
Lecture 10 Two case studies in grammaticalization
10.1 From particle to evaluative adjective
10.2 Light verbs in Odia
10.3 Concluding remarks
Bibliography
Appendices
Appendix 1: List of texts for pilot study on English sit (Lecture 8)
Appendix 2: List of texts for the rise of English put (Lecture 8)
Appendix 3: Pictures used in the Oral Picture Description Experiment
(Lecture 9)