Language in Use (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (Proceedings))
Contributors: Andrea, E Tyler (Editor); Mari, Takada (Editor); Yiyoung, Kim (Editor)
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: March 23, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781589010444
Subjects: Language acquisition; Language teaching & learning material & coursework; Language Arts & Disciplines; Cognitive grammar; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Discourse analysis
First sentence: A KEY TENET of Construction Grammar (CxG) (e.g., Goldberg 1995; Kay and Fillmore 1999; Michaelis and Lambrecht 1996) is that the basic units of language are learned pairings of form and function: constructions.