Grammatical Constructions - Their Form and Meaning

Klappentext In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in grammatical constructions - units of grammar representing form-meaning correspondences. The movement, in which Construction Grammar as developed by Charles Fillmore and Paul Kay has played a significant role, has arisen in part as a response to the Chomskyan modular approach, which treats grammatical constructions as epiphenomenal, dismantling their component features and attributing these to general principles of grammar. This volume is the first collection to focus on grammatical constructions per se, and is dedicated to Charles Fillmore in recognition of his leadership in the field. The papers all reflect or elaborate on his work, which shows how lexicon, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics interact in giving contructions their individual holistic characters as basic units of grammar. Zusammenfassung These collected papers are a response to and elaboration of Charles Fillmore's and Paul Kay's "Construction Grammar". In contrast to the modular Chomskyan approach, "Construction Grammar" is premised on the idea that constructions function as units of grammar in a way similar to words.

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• Authors: M. Shibatani, Masayoshi (Professor of Linguistics Shibatani, Masayoshi Thompson Shibatani, Thompson Shibatani, S A Thompson, S. A. Thompson
• Assisted by: Masayoshi Shibatani (Editor), Sandra A Thompson (Editor), Sandra A. Thompson (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.07.1996
• EAN: 9780198235392
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823539-2
• No. of pages: 364
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics