Construction Grammar and Its Application to English

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.

About the author

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).

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.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Hilpert, Hilpert Martin
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781474433600
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-3360-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Edinburgh Textbooks on the Eng; Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced; Edinburgh Textbooks on the Eng
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics