Constructional Approaches to English Grammar
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The book presents a series of new perspectives on patterns and developments in English grammar from a constructional perspective. The articles are authored by new and emerging experts in English grammar, who provide a critical assessment of the role of constructions in key areas of grammatical theory, from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives.
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In my opinion, the present volume admirably succeeds in engaging the reader in a truly illuminating and challenging reappraisal of CxG for the description of different areas of English grammar, including, as rightly pointed out by the editors (p. 173), levels of analysis often left unaccounted for by most construction grammarians, such as phonology. This collective work offers new insights into relevant long-standing phenomena (...). Francisco Gonzalvez-Garcia in: English Language and Linguistics 14.1/2010
Review:
In my opinion, the present volume admirably succeeds in engaging the reader in a truly illuminating and challenging reappraisal of CxG for the description of different areas of English grammar, including, as rightly pointed out by the editors (p. 173), levels of analysis often left unaccounted for by most construction grammarians, such as phonology. This collective work offers new insights into relevant long-standing phenomena (...). Francisco Gonzalvez-Garcia in: English Language and Linguistics 14.1/2010
