Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure (Cognitive Theory of Language and Culture Series)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Number of Pages: 271
Published: 1995-03-15
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0226300862
ISBN-13: 9780226300863
Drawing on work in linguistics, language acquisition, and computer science, Adele E. Goldberg proposes that grammatical constructions play a central role in the relation between the form and meaning of simple sentences. She demonstrates that the syntactic patterns associated with simple sentences are imbued with meaning--that the constructions themselves carry meaning independently of the words in a sentence. Goldberg provides a comprehensive account of the relation between verbs and constructions, offering ways to relate verb and constructional meaning, and to capture relations among cons...