The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar

NY : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Academic editor: T. Hoffmann, G. Trousdale

This handbook presents a comprehensive account of current work on Construction Grammar, its theoretical foundations, and its applications to and relationship with other kinds of linguistic enquiry. This volume is divided into five sections. The first section highlights the fundamental assumptions shared by all constructionist approaches; the second describes the particular frameworks in which the notion of constructions plays a central role; the third illustrates how constructionist approaches can be used for the analysis of all types of (morpho)syntactic phenomena from the lexicon-syntax cline; the fourth discusses the psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic underpinnings of Construction Grammar; and the final section considers the relation of Construction Grammar to language variation and change. The handbook also traces the history of Construction Grammar and explains its distinction from Chomskyan Mainstream Generative Gramma

Chapters

Brain Basis of Meaning, Words, Constructions, and Grammar

Pulvermuller F., Cappelle B., Shtyrov Y., , in: The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar.: NY: Oxford University Press, 2013. Ch. 22 P. 397–416.

This chapter examines the neurophysiological plausibility of some of the claims of Construction Grammar with regard to syntactic structures. It suggests that evidence from neuroscience has highly important repercussions for linguistic theory building in general and argues that the constructionist enterprise receives considerable empirical support from neurolinguistic studies. The chapter examines views on the embodiment ...

Added: March 21, 2015

Keywords: Construction Grammar, Cognitive Linguistics