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.
| ISBN: | 9789027218254 |
| Publication date: | 23rd December 2004 |
| Author: | Mirjam Fried, JanOla Östman |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 216 pages |
| Series: | Constructional Approaches to Language |
| Genres: |
Grammar, syntax and morphology |