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"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"-- Provided by publisher

Who reads Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology?

Author

William Croft

Publisher

Koninklijke Brill N.V.

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004363526

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, Linguistics, Literary Fiction