Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology

by William Croft

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004363521
• ISBN13: 9789004363526
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"