Constructions at Work
The nature of generalization in language
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 December 2005
- ISBN 9780199268528
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages290 pages
- Size 234x156x16 mm
- Weight 455 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Numerous tables and line drawings 0
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Short description:
This book investigates the nature of generalization in language and examines how language is known by adults and acquired by children. It looks at how and why constructions are learned, the relation between their forms and functions, and how cross-linguistic and language-internal generalizations about them can be explained.
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This book investigates the nature of generalization in language and examines how language is known by adults and acquired by children. It looks at how and why constructions are learned, the relation between their forms and functions, and how cross-linguistic and language-internal generalizations about them can be explained.
Constructions at Work is divided into three parts: in the first Professor Goldberg provides an overview of constructionist approaches, including the constructionist approach to argument structure, and argues for a usage-based model of grammar. In Part II she addresses issues concerning how generalizations are constrained and constructional generalizations are learned. In Part III the author shows that a combination of function and processing accounts for a wide range of language-internal and cross-linguistic generalizations. She then considers the degree to which the function of constructions explains their distribution and examines cross-linguistic tendencies in argument realization. She demonstrates that pragmatic and cognitive processes account for the data without appeal to stipulations that are language-specific.
This book is an important contribution to the study of how language operates in the mind and in the world and how these operations relate. It is of central interest for scholars and graduate-level students in all branches of theoretical linguistics and psycholinguistics. It will also appeal to cognitive scientists and philosophers concerned with language and its acquisition.
I have found Ionstructions at WorkR^ a must-have book. The author's elegance and clarity of vision, her knowledge of research beyond linguistics proper, as well as her empathy with the reader and her honesty about the not-so-clear cases, are engaging.
Table of Contents:
Part One: Constructions
Overview
Surface Generalizations
Item Specific Knowledge and Generalizations
Part Two: Learning Generalizations
How Generalizations are Learned
How Generalizations are Constrained
Why Generalizations are Learned
Part Three: Explaining Generalizations
Island Constraints and Scope
Grammatical Categorization: Subject Auxiliary Inversion
Cross-linguistic Generalizations in Argument Realization
Variations on a Constructionist Theme
Conclusion
References
Index
