Construction Grammar And Its Application To English (Edinburgh Textbooks On The English Language - Advanced) - 9781474433600

What 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 fullydescribed 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 ofbeing 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 withthe 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.A series of ten video lectures accompanying the book are available via a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/carlahilpert"YouTube/a.

• | Author: Martin Hilpert
• | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 21, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 296 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 147443360X
• | ISBN-13: 9781474433600