The goal of this study is to reintegrate the theory of generative grammar into the cognitive
sciences. Generative grammar was right to focus on the child's acquisition of language as its …

A new theoretical approach to language has emerged in the past 10–15 years that allows
linguistic observations about form–meaning pairings, known as 'constructions', to be stated …

Corpora are widely used in linguistics, but not always wisely. This book attempts to frame
corpus linguistics systematically as a variant of the observational method. The first part …

It is one of the central claims of construction grammar that constructions are organized in
some kind of network, commonly referred to as the constructicon. In the classical model of …

Summary Construction Grammar (CxG) has developed into a broad and highly diverse
family of approaches that have in common that they see constructions, ie form-meaning …

This chapter highlights the fundamental assumptions shared by all constructionist
approaches, distinguishing them from mainstream generative grammar. In particular …

In this groundbreaking book, Michael Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based
theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in …

Cognitive Linguistics argues that language is governed by general cognitive principles,
rather than by a special-purpose language module. This introductory textbook surveys the …

Cognitive grammar is a comprehensive and unified theory of linguistic structure. Its
formulation was initiated in 1976, and a general description was first presented in Langacker …

Per Linell took his degree in linguistics and is currently professor of language and culture,
with a specialisation on communication and spoken interaction, at the University of …