Construction Grammar

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Abstract

Construction Grammar is a linguistic theory concerned with the nature of speakers' knowledge of language. Like traditional grammars, Construction Grammar takes the basic units of language to be form–meaning pairings, or constructions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationEncyclopedia of Cognitive Science
Subtitle of host publicationNadel/Cognitive
Publisherwiley
Pages1-4
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9780470018866
ISBN (Print)9780470016190
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2006
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Medicine
  • General Neuroscience
  • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Keywords

  • argument structure
  • construction
  • grammar
  • psycholinguistics
  • semantics
  • unification

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