Goldbergs construction grammar

The contribution of Fillmore et al. and Kay and Fillmore in developing Construction Grammar was to establish the symbolic thesis from first principles. These researchers observed that the ‘words and rules’ approach to grammar, while accounting for much that is regular in language, had failed to account for the irregular, which represents a significant subset of language. They then set out to explain the irregular first, on the assumption that once principles have been developed that account for the irregular, then the same principles should be able to explain the regular. As we saw, their approach centered upon the construction. In this way, these researchers motivated the extension of the symbolic thesis from words to complex grammatical constructions on the basis of the generalisation commitment: a commitment to a common set of principles that accounts for all the units that comprise a language, including sound, meaning, lexicon and grammar.

The next stage in developing the constructional perspective is to apply this approach to what is regular in the grammar. Perhaps the most important development in this area has been Adele Goldberg’s work, most notably her land mark 1995 book. Influenced both by the work of Kay and Fillmore and by the early work of George Lakoff on constructions (in particular his 1987 case study of there constructions), Goldberg developed a construction grammar that sought to extend the constructional approach from ‘irregular’ idiomatic constructions to ‘regular’ constructions. In order to do this, Goldberg focused on verb argument constructions. In other words, she examined ‘ordinary’ sentences, like transitives and ditransitives, and built a construction grammar on the patterns she found there.

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The architecture of construction grammars

The Generalisation Commitment

Comparing Construction Grammar with Cognitive Grammar

Construction Grammar: a broadly generative model

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On pidgins and other restricted linguistic systems

Conclusion Some cognitive abilities of animals

The Construction Grammar model

Grammaticalization in animals?

Language-like abilities in animals

Discussion Some cognitive abilities of animals Problems

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