This book offers a long-awaited unified and precise treatise on construction-based grammar. The approach to grammar presented here is the union of Berkeley Construction Grammar, as represented by the early work of Charles J. Fillmore and Paul Kay, with construction HPSG as pioneered by Ivan Sag, Carl Pollard, and others. The presentation of this theory in a detailed chapter by Sag presents the full outlines of a new approach to grammar. It reflects the confluence of two separate, although converging, traditions, and constitutes a novel synthesis.
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Product details
ISBN
9781575866291
Published
2011-11-15
Publisher
Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Weight
652 gr
Height
23 mm
Width
15 mm
Thickness
3 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
391