Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective
Author | : Mirjam Fried |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2004-12-23 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789027294968 |
ISBN-13 | : 9027294968 |
Rating | : 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Download or read book Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective written by Mirjam Fried and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-12-23 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from the early 1980’s by Charles J. Fillmore and his associates. It also provides a succinct account of the historical and intellectual background of the model and shows how Construction Grammar can easily be applied to typologically very different languages and to a variety of language-specific phenomena. All of the contributors to the volume came out of the Fillmorean school at UC-Berkeley and have worked consistently on applying and further developing the model in various domains of linguistic analysis.The 'Thumbnail sketch' by Fried & Östman is the only extensive introduction published so far to Fillmorean Construction Grammar.