31.3187, Books: Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology: Croft

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 21:41:28
From: Clovis Jaillet [Jaillet at Brill.com]
Subject: Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology: Croft

 


Title: Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology 
Series Title: Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.com
	

Book URL: https://brill.com/view/title/36391 


Author: William Croft

Electronic: ISBN:  9789004363533 Pages: 311 Price: Europe EURO 99
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004363523 Pages: 311 Price: Europe EURO 99


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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