Construction Grammar and its Application to English
What do speakers of English know in order to produce utterances that other speakers will understand? The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as knowledge of constructions, which are defined as symbolic units that c… Celý popis ↓
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Construction Grammar and its Application to English
What do speakers of English know in order to produce utterances that other speakers will understand? The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as knowledge of constructions, which are defined as symbolic units that connect a linguistic form with meaning. Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds.
Instead of being meaningless structural templates, syntactic patterns actively contribute to the overall meaning of an utterance. 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. 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 with the
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