Syntactic Constructions in English

by Laura A Michaelis and Jong-Bok Kim

Book Overview

Construction grammar (CxG) is a framework for syntactic analysis that takes constructions - pairings of form and meaning that range from the highly idiomatic to the very general - to be the building blocks of sentence meaning. Offering the first comprehensive introduction to CxG to focus on both English words and the constructions that combine them, this textbook shows students not only what the analyses of particular structures are, but also how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108455867
• ISBN13: 9781108455862
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.4"