Martin Hilpert

Construction Grammar and its Application to English (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Introduces Construction Grammar as a cognitive-functional theory of language, applied to the structures of EnglishWhat do speakers of English know in order to produce utterances that other speakers will understand? 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. The implications of this claim are far-reaching: in Construction Grammar, not only lexical items, but also syntactic patterns are seen as symbolic, meaningful units. Instead of being meaningless structural templates, syntactic patterns actively contribute to the overall meaning of an utterance. Knowledge of language is thought of as a vast repository of interrelated symbolic units, and nothing else in addition. This book expands on this idea and familiarizes readers with the central concepts of Construction Grammar, as applied to English constructions. In the process, it explains how the theory of Construction Grammar relates to issues of language processing, language acquisition, and language variation and change.Key FeaturesThe first textbook to offer a full introduction to Construction Grammar, as applied to EnglishIncludes exercises and questions to stimulate reflectionProvides a thorough grounding in the central concepts of Construction GrammarA series of ten video lectures accompanying the book are avialable via YouTube

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748675883
• Artikelnr.: 44754483

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