Grammatical Constructions : Their Form and Meaning

All previously unpublished, these collected papers by a cast of distinguished contributors are a response to and elaboration of Charles Fillmore's and Paul Kay's `Construction Grammar'. In contrast to the modular Chomskyan approach which treats grammatical constructions as epiphenomena, Construction Grammar is premised on the idea 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.