本书作者William Croft是我国读者熟悉的著名语言学家，于1986年在斯坦福大学获得语言学博士学位，现任职于美国新墨西哥大学语言学系。他的研究兴趣涉及句法学、语义学、认知语言学和历史语言学等众多领域，且在这些领域都有重要著作问世。如Cognitive linguistics（与D.A.Cruse合著，2004，Cambridge University Press），Typology：Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science （2003，London：Nature Publishing Group），Explaining language change：an evolutionary approach（2000，Harlow，Essex：Longman）等。
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A construction typically provides only a partial specification of the structure of an utterance. For example, the Ditransitive construction [ SBJ DITR VERB OBJ1 OBJ2], as in He gave her a book, only specifies the predicate and the linkings to its arguments. It does not specify the order of elements, which can be different in, for example, the Cleft construction, as in it was a book that he gave her. Nor does the Ditransitive construction specify the presence or position of other elements in an utterance, such as Modal Auxiliaries or Negation, whether in a Declarative Sentence (where they are preverbal; see (13a) ) or an Interrogative Sentence (where the Auxiliary precedes the subject; see (13b) ):
(13) a. He won’t give her the book.
b. Wouldn’t he give her the book?
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隐喻不仅是认知语言学的研究对象，更是认知语言学的论证方法。Croft把传统语法里的种种分类逐一予以层递渐进的组织，万物皆可连续统。构形上的一致必然暗示了概念空间上的邻近。