Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure (Cognitive Theory of Language and Culture Series)

Goldberg, Adele E.

ISBN 10: 0226300862 / ISBN 13: 9780226300863

Editore: University of Chicago Press, 1995

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• Titolo: Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure (Cognitive Theory of Language and Culture Series)
• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226300862
• ISBN 13: 9780226300863
• Rilegatura: paperback
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

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 constructions and generalizations over constructions. Prototypes, frame semantics, and metaphor are shown to play crucial roles. In addition, Goldberg presents specific analyses of several constructions, including the ditransitive and the resultative constructions, revealing systematic semantic generalizations.

Through a comparison with other current approaches to argument structure phenomena, this book narrows the gap between generative and cognitive theories of language.

Informazioni sull?autore

Adele E. Goldberg is associate professor at the University of Illinois in the Department of Linguistics. In 1996, she won the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities for her work on Constructions.