Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective (Constructional Approaches to Language)

This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from the early 1980's by Charles J. Fillmore and his associates. It also provides a succinact account of the historical and intellectual background of the model and shows how Construction Grammar can easily be applied to typologically very different languages and to a variety of language-specific phenomena. All of the contributors to the volume came out of the Fillmorean school at UC-Berkeley and have worked consistently on applying and further developing the model in various domains of linguistic analysis.Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective (Constructional Approaches to Language), was published 2004 under ISBN 9789027218223 and ISBN 9027218226.