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A Grand Tour of English Grammatical Constructions

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MartinHilpert, Construction Grammar and its Application to English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 220. Paperback £19.99, ISBN 978-0-7486-7585-2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2015

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This introductory text successfully achieves its ambitious goal of demonstrating how the Construction Grammar framework can be applied in a systematic fashion to a range of sub-disciplines within Linguistics. Construction Grammar (CG) is a unified theory of knowledge of language modelled on knowledge of constructions. Each chapter illustrates the application of CG to a different sub-discipline, from those that are more well-established in the literature, such as argument structure and information packaging, to areas that have been addressed in depth more recently from this perspective, such as morphology, language variation and language change.

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English Today , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , September 2015 , pp. 61 - 63
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