Martin Hilpert

Construction Grammar and Its Application to English

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 142mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781474433600
• ISBN-10: 147443360X
• Artikelnr.: 55924423

Autorenporträt

Martin Hilpert works as Assistant Professor of English Linguistics at the Université de Neuchâtel. Besides Construction Grammar, his research interests include corpus linguistics, language variation and change, and cognitive linguistics. He is the author of Germanic Future Constructions (2008, John Benjamins) and Constructional Change in English (2013, Cambridge University Press).

Inhaltsangabe

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