Grammatical Constructions Their Form and Meaning [Hardcover]

In this collection a cast of distinguished contributors responds to and elaborates Charles Fillmore's and Paul Kay's Construction Grammar . In contrast to the modular Chomskyan approach which treats grammatical constructions as epiphenomena, Construction Grammar works on the premise that constructions function as units of grammar in a way similar to words, and that their properties derive from complex interplays between lexicon, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.