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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786555003321

Autore

Hilpert Martin

Titolo

Construction Grammar and its Application to English [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2014

ISBN

0-7486-7586-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced

Disciplina

425.018

Soggetti

Construction grammar

English language -- Grammar

Phrase structure grammar

English language - Grammar

English

Languages & Literatures

English Language

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

title page; copyright; Contents; 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 Concluding remarks; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.