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Construction Grammar and its Application to English.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hilpert, Martin.
- Series:
- Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Construction grammar.
- English language--Grammar.
- Phrase structure grammar.
- English language.
- Local Subjects:
- Construction grammar.
- English language--Grammar.
- Phrase structure grammar.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- title page; copyright; Contents; 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 Concluding remarks; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7486-7586-8
- OCLC:
- 1027163551
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