Radical Construction Grammar
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Author | : William Croft |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0198299559 |
This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but rather syntactic-semantic "Gestalts". He puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work.
Author | : William Croft |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780198299547 |
This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but rather syntactic-semantic "Gestalts." He puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work.
Author | : William Croft |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2020-09-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 900436353X |
In Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology, William Croft presents a unified theory of linguistic form and meaning that encompasses crosslinguistic diversity, verbalization and language change. Croft begins from construction grammar, a theory of syntax in which all syntactic structures are a pairing of form and meaning. Constructions are posited as basic; syntactic categories are defined by constructions. The internal structure of constructions directly link elements of constructions to the meanings they express, Constructions across languages can be situated in a space of syntactic variation. Grammar emerges from the verbalization of experience. Constructions occur in a probability distribution across the conceptual space of meanings. These probability distributions evolve, leading to grammatical change in language, modeled in an evolutionary framework.
Author | : Thomas Hoffmann |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 609 |
Release | : 2013-04-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0195396685 |
This Handbook is the first authoritative reference work solely dedicated to the theory, method, and applications of Construction Grammar, and will be a resource that students and scholars alike can turn to for a representative overview of its many sub-theories and applications.
Author | : Martin Hilpert |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2014-03-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0748675868 |
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.
Author | : Jan-Ola Östman |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027218230 |
Addressing a number of issues (such as coercion, discourse patterning, language change), the contributions show how CxG must be part and parcel of cognitively oriented studies of language, including language universals."--Jacket.
Author | : William Croft |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 467 |
Release | : 2012-03-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199248583 |
Examining the syntax and semantics of verbs from a crosslinguistic perspective, this book encompasses the full range of English verb classes, has a strong typological dimension and presents a model of event structure that breaks new ground in predicting and explaining linguistic facts.
Author | : William Croft |
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Release | : 2000 |
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Author | : Evie Coussé |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2018-05-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027264163 |
Grammaticalization research has increasingly highlighted the notion of constructions in the last decade. In the wake of this heightened interest, efforts have been made in grammaticalization research to more precisely articulate the largely pretheoretical notion of construction in the theoretical framework of construction grammar. As such, grammaticalization research increasingly interacts and converges with the emerging field of diachronic construction grammar. This volume brings together articles that are situated at the intersection of grammaticalization research and diachronic construction grammar. All articles share an interest in integrating insights from grammaticalization research and construction grammar in order to advance our understanding of empirical cases of grammaticalization. Constructions at various levels of abstractness are investigated, both in well-documented languages, such as Ancient Greek, Latin, Spanish, German, Norwegian and English, and in less-described languages, such as Manchu and Mongolian.
Author | : Florent Perek |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2015-04-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027268754 |
The argument structure of verbs, defined as the part of grammar that deals with how participants in verbal events are expressed in clauses, is a classical topic in linguistics that has received considerable attention in the literature. This book investigates argument structure in English from a usage-based perspective, taking the view that the cognitive representation of grammar is shaped by language use, and that crucial aspects of grammatical organization are tied to the frequency with which words and syntactic constructions are used. On the basis of several case studies combining quantitative corpus studies and psycholinguistic experiments, it is shown how a usage-based approach sheds new light on a number of issues in argument realization and offers frequency-based explanations for its organizing principles at three levels of generality: verbs, constructions, and argument structure alternations.