This book investigates the nature of generalization in language and examines how language is known by adults and acquired by children. It looks at how and why constructions are learned, the relation between their forms and functions, and how cross-linguistic and language-internal generalizations about them can be explained. Constructions at Work is divided into three parts: in the first Professor Goldberg provides an overview of constructionist approaches, including the constructionist approach to argument structure, and argues for a usage-based model of grammar. In Part II she addresses issues concerning how generalizations are constrained and constructional generalizations are learned. In Part III the author shows that a combination of function and processing accounts for a wide range of language-internal and cross-linguistic generalizations. She then considers the degree to which the function of constructions explains their distribution and examines cross-linguistic tendencies in argument realization. She demonstrates that pragmatic and cognitive processes account for the data without appeal to stipulations that are language-specific.This book is an important contribution to the study of how language operates in the mind and in the world and how these operations relate. It is of central interest for scholars and graduate-level students in all branches of theoretical linguistics and psycholinguistics. It will also appeal to cognitive scientists and philosophers concerned with language and its acquisition.
0 有用 蓝色不忧郁 2010-03-24 19:29:11
爽,Anti-chomskyite!
0 有用 最后一方清净地 2020-10-26 15:33:58
Goldberg’s earlier work uses much more of the formalism of generative linguistics, but this 2006 book will be much more accessible to those without generative training as an introduction to doing gram... Goldberg’s earlier work uses much more of the formalism of generative linguistics, but this 2006 book will be much more accessible to those without generative training as an introduction to doing grammar with constructions. (展开)
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野心比较大 已经从95那本的基础上往儿童层面发展
0 有用 初智齿 2022-07-31 16:36:11
A mathematician, a physicist, an engineer, and a linguist are trying to decide if all odd numbers are prime ….. The linguist says, ‘‘one’s prime, 3’s prime, 5’s prime, 7’s prime. Aha! We have a univer... A mathematician, a physicist, an engineer, and a linguist are trying to decide if all odd numbers are prime ….. The linguist says, ‘‘one’s prime, 3’s prime, 5’s prime, 7’s prime. Aha! We have a universal generalization. Nine doesn’t seem to be prime, but it must be prime at some underlying level of representation!’’ 虽然仍然觉得很难 但至少觉得有点趣味了 (展开)
0 有用 初智齿 2022-07-31 16:36:11
A mathematician, a physicist, an engineer, and a linguist are trying to decide if all odd numbers are prime ….. The linguist says, ‘‘one’s prime, 3’s prime, 5’s prime, 7’s prime. Aha! We have a univer... A mathematician, a physicist, an engineer, and a linguist are trying to decide if all odd numbers are prime ….. The linguist says, ‘‘one’s prime, 3’s prime, 5’s prime, 7’s prime. Aha! We have a universal generalization. Nine doesn’t seem to be prime, but it must be prime at some underlying level of representation!’’ 虽然仍然觉得很难 但至少觉得有点趣味了 (展开)
0 有用 最后一方清净地 2020-10-26 15:33:58
Goldberg’s earlier work uses much more of the formalism of generative linguistics, but this 2006 book will be much more accessible to those without generative training as an introduction to doing gram... Goldberg’s earlier work uses much more of the formalism of generative linguistics, but this 2006 book will be much more accessible to those without generative training as an introduction to doing grammar with constructions. (展开)
0 有用 己注销 2016-06-23 19:33:17
野心比较大 已经从95那本的基础上往儿童层面发展
0 有用 蓝色不忧郁 2010-03-24 19:29:11
爽,Anti-chomskyite!