How Grammar Links Concepts: Verb-mediated constructions, attribution, perspectivizing: 57 (Human Cognitive Processing) - Hardcover

Ungerer, Friedrich

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027246734 ISBN 13: 9789027246738

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2017

Synopsis

The proposed framework of concept linking combines insights of construction grammar with those of traditional functional descriptions to explain particularly challenging but often neglected areas of English grammar such as negation, modality, adverbials and non-finite constructions. To reach this goal the idea of a unified network of constructions is replaced by the triad of verb-mediated constructions, attribution and scope-based perspectivizing, each of them understood as a syntactically effective concept-linking mechanism in its own right, but involved in interfaces with the other mechanisms.
In addition, concept linking supplies a novel approach to early child language. It casts fresh light on widely accepted descriptions of early two-word utterances and verb islands in usage-based models of language acquisition and encourages a new view of children’s ‘mistakes’.
Intended readership: Constructionist and cognitive linguists; linguists and psychologists interested in language acquisition; teachers and students of English grammar and grammar in general.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027246734
• ISBN 13: 9789027246738
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 339