EC Traugott, G Trousdale - 2013 - books.google.com
Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale develop an approach to language change based on construction grammar. Construction grammar is a theory of signs construed at the …
Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge …
JW Du Bois - Cognitive linguistics, 2014 - degruyter.com
This paper argues for the need to recognize a new order of syntactic phenomena, and for a theory of syntax capable of addressing it. Dialogic syntax encompasses the linguistic …
In construction morphology, complex words are seen as constructions on the word level. The notion 'construction', a pairing of form and meaning, as developed in the theory of …
H Diessel - Handbook of cognitive linguistics, 2015 - degruyter.com
The general goal of research on grammar in cognitive linguistics is to develop a framework for the analysis of linguistic structure that is grounded in general cognitive processes, ie …
It is one of the central claims of construction grammar that constructions are organized in some kind of network, commonly referred to as the constructicon. In the classical model of …
O Abend, A Rappoport - Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting …, 2013 - aclanthology.org
Syntactic structures, by their nature, reflect first and foremost the formal constructions used for expressing meanings. This renders them sensitive to formal variation both within and …
Argument structure-the pattern of underlying relations between a predicate and its dependents-is at the base of syntactic theory and the theory of the interface with semantics …