Currently, production and comprehension are regarded as quite distinct in accounts of
language processing. In rejecting this dichotomy, we instead assert that producing and …

In Construction Grammar, the ultimate grammatical unit is the construction, a
conventionalized form-meaning pairing. We present interrelated evidence from three …

Syntactic complexity has been an area of significant interest in L2 writing development
studies over the past 45 years. Despite the regularity in which syntactic complexity measures …

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 …

All languages provide ways to talk about events and their participants; this function is
typically assumed in great part by verbs. It is precisely for this reason that, more so than …

Learning About Language is an exciting and ambitious series of introductions to
fundamental topics in language, linguistics and related areas. The books are designed for …

This book illustrates the ways that cognitive linguistics, a relatively new paradigm in
language studies, can illuminate and facilitate language research and teaching. The first …

The Psychology of Language is a thorough revision and update of the popular second
edition. It contains everything the student needs to know about the psychology of language …

Cognitive Linguistics (CL) is an approach to the study of language informed by both
linguistics and psychology. It describes how language interfaces with cognition, and how it …

Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the received wisdom is
that'pragmatics' simply cannot be coherently defined. In this groundbreaking book Mira Ariel …