The Meaning of Constructions. The Cognitive Denial of the Lexicon-Syntax Division
The Meaning of Constructions. The Cognitive Denial of the Lexicon-Syntax Division

Author(s): Konrad Szcześniak
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Lexicon-Syntax Division; Construction
Summary/Abstract: New approaches to language description, especially cognitive linguistictheories, have taken a radically revisionist position toward Generativemodels and other, by now “traditional” grammars. Many fundamentalassumptions about language structure have been questioned, revised orrejected entirely in frameworks like Construction Grammar (Goldberg,1995), Simpler Syntax (Culicover & Jackendoff, 2005), or Lexical FunctionalGrammar (Bresnan, 2001). New models and theories of language structurefind themselves contesting at least some of the following generativeassumptions (excerpt from the introduction)

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