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Sign-Based Construction Grammar
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Sign-Based Construction Grammar
This book offers a long-awaited unified and precise treatise on construction-based grammar. The approach to grammar presented here is the union of Berkeley Construction Grammar, as represented by the early work of Charles J. Fillmore and Paul Kay, with construction HPSG as pioneered by Ivan Sag, Carl Pollard, and others. The presentation of this theory in a detailed chapter by Sag presents the full outlines of a new approach to grammar. It reflects the confluence of two separate, although converging, traditions, and constitutes a novel synthesis.
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Preface
1. Introducing Sign-Based Construction Grammar
Ivan A. Sag, Hans C. Boas, and Paul Kay
2. Making the Case for Construction Grammar
Laura A. Michaelis
3. Sign-Based Construction Grammar: An Informal Synopsis
Ivan A. Sag
4. The Distribution of that-Clauses in English: An SBCG Account
Gert Webelhuth
5. Cleaning up the Big Mess: Discontinuous Dependencies and Complex Determiners
Paul Kay and Ivan A. Sag
6. Reconstructing Syntax: Construction Grammar and the Comparative Method
Jóhanna Barddal and Thórhallur Eythórsson
7. The FrameNet Construction
Charles J. Fillmore, Russell R. Lee-Goldman, and Russell Rhomieux
Name Index
Construction Index
Subject Index
Preface
1. Introducing Sign-Based Construction Grammar
Ivan A. Sag, Hans C. Boas, and Paul Kay
2. Making the Case for Construction Grammar
Laura A. Michaelis
3. Sign-Based Construction Grammar: An Informal Synopsis
Ivan A. Sag
4. The Distribution of that-Clauses in English: An SBCG Account
Gert Webelhuth
5. Cleaning up the Big Mess: Discontinuous Dependencies and Complex Determiners
Paul Kay and Ivan A. Sag
6. Reconstructing Syntax: Construction Grammar and the Comparative Method
Jóhanna Barddal and Thórhallur Eythórsson
7. The FrameNet Construction
Charles J. Fillmore, Russell R. Lee-Goldman, and Russell Rhomieux
Name Index
Construction Index
Subject Index