Radical Construction Grammar
Subtitle: Syntactic Theory in Typological Perspective
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: November 30, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780198299554
First sentence: Radical Construction Grammar is a theory of syntax, that is, a theory characterizing the grammatical structures that are assumed to be represented in the mind of a speaker.
Description: "Radical Construction Grammar presents a critique of syntactic theory and argumentation, and offers a genuinely new approach to syntax based on the fact of grammatical diversity. Recent syntactic theories are essentially formal models for the representation of grammatical knowledge, and posit complex syntactic structures in the analysis of sentences. The result has been an endless cycle of new and revised theories of syntactic representation."--Jacket.