Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective |
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Editor:
| Fried, Mirjam Östman, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan-Ola |
Series title: | Constructional Approaches to Language Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-90-272-1825-4 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2004 |
Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $49.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionThis 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.