Grammatical Constructions: Their Form and Meaning

by Masayoshi Shibatani (editor), Sandra A. Thompson (Editor)

In this collection a cast of distinguished contributors responds to and elaborates Charles Fillmore's and Paul Kay's "Construction Grammar". In contrast to the modular Chomskyan approach which treats grammatical constructions as epiphenomena, Construction Grammar works on the premise that
constructions function as units of grammar in a way similar to words, and that their properties derive from complex interplays between lexicon, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.

Genres: Linguistics

363 pages, Paperback

First published August 22, 1996

About the author

Also known as Matt Shibatani.