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The book is structured into four main sections. The first section, Theoretical Foundations, includes contributions that rethink language as enérgeia, explore the relationship between language and brain research, and discuss realist linguistics and dynamic ontology, alongside the principles of compositionality and conceptual graphs. The second section, Cognition and Semantics, examines dynamic schematism in cognitive semantics, the interplay between time of existence and experience, linguistic creativity within dynamic systems theory, and the dynamics of causative connectives, as well as a force dynamic perspective on the concepts of leaving versus maintaining the status quo. The third section focuses on Crosslinguistic Investigations, featuring studies on songs about migrant workers from the Trobriand Islands, the code-switching tendencies of Welsh youth in fiction, and typological aspects of the comitative/instrumental in European languages. It also discusses the effectiveness of the Salience Principle in marking variation and the dynamic learning processes involved in foreign language acquisition, particularly regarding learners' self-assessment and contextual sensitivity. The final section, Miscellanea, includes unique insights into the Bremen dialect, reflections on the works of the Bremen author F. Wagenfeld, and a celebration of Wolfgang's 60 years of contributions to the field, concluding with a curriculum vitae and

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Towards a dynamic theory of language, Andrea Graumann

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2004
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