This paper reasserts the fundamental conceptual distinction between language-particular
categories of individual languages, defined within particular systems, and comparative …

The notion of prototype is relevant to many analyses within cognitive linguistics. On the basis
of a syntactic example (the so-called dative alternation), this analysis introduces a corpus …

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

Drawing on work in linguistics, language acquisition, and computer science, Adele E.
Goldberg proposes that grammatical constructions play a central role in the relation between …

In this rich reference work, Beth Levin classifies over 3,000 English verbs according to
shared meaning and behavior. Levin starts with the hypothesis that a verb's meaning …

A general introduction to the area of theoretical linguistics known as cognitive linguistics, this
textbook provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field, including recent …

Provides an accessible collection of 12 representative and significant writings showing the
continued development of the theory of cognitive grammar and illustrating its application to …

In the literature of generative grammar, idiomaticity has been widely identified with
noncompositionality. Such a definition fails to recognize several important dimensions of …

In den letzten Jahren ist die Konstruktionsgrammatik zu einem zentralen
Forschungsparadigma geworden. Sie hat das Ziel, eine allgemeine Theorie der …

The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia is a single-volume encyclopedia covering all major
and subsidiary areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. The 79 entries provide in-depth …