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Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology William Croft.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Croft, William.
- Series:
- Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics 11.
- Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics ; v. 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- TYPOLOGY.
- Physical Description:
- IX, 311 pages ; 25 cm
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2018.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Disponible en versión en línea e impresa en papel
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004363526
- 9789004363533
- 900436353X
- OCLC:
- 1015826357
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004363533 DOI
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