Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective

Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 215
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ISBN-10 : 9789027294968
ISBN-13 : 9027294968
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Book Synopsis Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective by : Mirjam Fried

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.


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