Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective
Princeton University / University of Helsinki
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 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.
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 2]
2004.
vi, 209 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Hardbound – Available
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9789027218223
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95.00
ISBN
9781588115782
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143.00
Paperback – Available
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9789027218254
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33.00
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49.95
e-Book – Sold by e-book platforms
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9789027294968
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95.00
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143.00
Google Edition – Forthcoming
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9789027294968
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33.00
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Table of Contents
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Historical and intellectual background of Construction Grammar
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1–10
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Construction Grammar: A thumbnail sketch
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11–86
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Predicate semantics and event construal in Czech case marking
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87–119
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Lexically (un)filled constructional schemes and construction types: The case of Japanese modal conditional constructions
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121–155
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On the interaction of information structure and formal structure in constructions: The case of French right-detached comme-N
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157–199
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Index
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201–208
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Quotes
“[...] a valuable source for anyone interested in current research in Construction Grammar. The structure of the book seems unusual in combining a textbook introduction with research articles. This combination however turns out to be very useful, as it allows the reader to familiarize with the theoretical framework before seeing it applied to a number of different phenomena.”
Martin Hilpert,
Rice University, in Studies in Language, Vol. 31:2 (2007)
“The book as a whole is an interesting introduction to Construction Grammar as a formal theory of language, and shows that the framework is sufficiently flexible and accurate to account for linguistic facts across languages. The volume, and in particular Chapter 2, will thus be an extremely useful reference for anyone interested in constructional approaches.”
Valeria Quochi,
Linguistics Department, University of Pisa, Italy, on Linguist List, Vol. 16.2277 (2005)
“[...] the utility (and interest) of this book is the attempt to test, through a collection of different case studies related to different languages, the application of the constructional approach outside the model of English.”
Francesca Di Garbo, University of Palermo, on Linguist List 20.1297
Subjects
Benjamins Subject classification
BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2004046398