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A Construction Grammar of the English Language: CASA – a constructionist approach to syntactic analysis
Thomas Herbst and Thomas Hoffmann
[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice 5] 2024
► pp. 1–21

Chapter 1
Introduction

Article outline
  • 1.1Why Construction Grammar
  • 1.2What is Construction Grammar
  • 1.3What is a construction?
    • 1.3.1Definitions of construction
    • 1.3.2Simple words as constructions
    • 1.3.3Complex words as constructions
    • 1.3.4Idioms as constructions
    • 1.3.5Schematicity of constructions
    • 1.3.6Collocations as constructions
    • 1.3.7Lexico-grammatical space
  • 1.4How do we learn constructions
    • 1.4.1Segmentation and pattern finding
    • 1.4.2Entrenchment and pre-emption
  • 1.5How do constructions combine
  • 1.6Form and meaning in Construction Grammar
  • 1.7Construction Grammar as a model of linguistic description
  • Notes
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