
Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology
William Croft(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 1. October 2020
Book
Hardback
322 pages
978-90-04-36352-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
578 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-36352-6 (9789004363526)
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William Croft, Ph.D. (1986), Stanford University. Professor of Linguistics, University of New Mexico. He has published monographs and many articles on typology, construction grammar, semantics and language change, including Radical Construction Grammar (OUP, 2001) and Verbs: Aspect and Causal Structure (Oxford, 2012).