Ten lectures on construction grammar and typology
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Ten lectures on construction grammar and typology
（Distinguished lectures in cognitive linguistics, v. 11）
Brill, c2021
- : hardback
Available at / 20 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Summary: "In Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology, William Croft presents a unified theory of linguistic form and meaning that encompasses crosslinguistic diversity, verbalization and language change. Croft begins from construction grammar, a theory of syntax in which all syntactic structures are a pairing of form and meaning. Constructions are posited as basic; syntactic categories are defined by constructions. The internal structure of constructions directly link elements of constructions to the meanings they express, Constructions across languages can be situated in a space of syntactic variation. Grammar emerges from the verbalization of experience. Constructions occur in a probability distribution across the conceptual space of meanings. These probability distributions evolve, leading to grammatical change in language, modeled in an evolutionary framework"-- Provided by publisher
Some printing have no series number
Description and Table of Contents
Description
by "Nielsen BookData"