LINGUIST List 31.3187
Mon Oct 19 2020
Books: Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology: Croft
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Date: 15-Oct-2020
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Subject: Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology: Croft
E-mail this message to a friend Title: Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology
Series Title: Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics
Published: 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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