Construction Grammar and its Application to English

ISBN-13: 9781474433617 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 296 str.

Martin Hilpert

Opis

Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as knowledge of constructions, which are defined as symbolic units that connect a linguistic form with meaning.

Spis treści

List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; To readers: Why you shouldn't pick up, let alone read, this book;1: Introducing Construction Grammar; 2: Argument structure constructions; 3: Inside the construct-i-con; 4:Constructional morphology; 5: Information packaging constructions; 6: Constructions and language processing; 7: Constructions and language acquisition; 8: Language variation and change; 9:Constructions in spoken language; 10 Constructions across Grammars; 11 Concluding remarks; References; Index