Our courses: Cognitive and functional linguistics: an introduction

The course introduces the main approaches to analyzing and interpreting linguistic data and data from cognitive sciences, that have been accumulated by modern research lying outside formal approaches. The course discusses functional explanatory approaches to the description of typologically diverse languages and linguistic diversity / variation, cognitive models of lexicon and grammar representation, such as categorization of color and space, as well as a critical analysis of multidisciplinary research in the intersection of linguistics with biology, anthropology, psychology and neurosciences. The course is organized as a reading group that exposes the students to, as well as involves them into, polemics currently going on in the leading linguistic journals.