Current issues of cognitive linguistic studies of Serbian

• Main Author: Popović Ljudmila V.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for the Serbian Language, Belgrade 2017-01-01
• Series: Južnoslovenski Filolog
• Subjects: cognitive linguistics; Serbian language; grammar; historical linguistics; dialectology; lexicology
• Online Access: http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-185X/2017/0350-185X1704315P.pdf

The paper discusses the results of research by Serbian scholars into the field of cognitive linguistics over the past ten years. Special emphasis is laid on the cognitive linguistic studies of grammar, both in Serbian proper and from the contrastive viewpoint, which successfully apply Predrag Piper’s semantic localisation theory. It highlights the achievements of Serbian scholars in the sphere of historical cognitive linguistics, as well as fuzzy linguistics. It singles out cognitive principles in research into Serbian dialectology, as well as into lexicology, cultural linguistics and ethnolinguistics. The paper specifies the distinctive principles of the multidisciplinary fields in which cognitive linguistic methods of language study are used. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 177022: Narodna kultura Srba između Istoka i Zapada]