June 2014 Academic & Specialist Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced

Construction Grammar and its Application to English Martin Hilpert

Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced

Construction Grammar and its Application to English
Martin Hilpert


What do speakers of English know in order to produce utterances that other speakers will understand? This book explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. It explains how the theory of Construction Grammar relates to issues of language processing, language acquisition, and language variation and change.