Syntactic Theory and the Theory of Language
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23697407 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Croft (0000-0003-0886-2652, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Pages | 362-368 |
| Publication date | 2001-10-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Radical Construction Grammar (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198299554.003.0010 |
| OpenAlex | W2502349950 |
| ISBN | 9780198299554 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 138 |
Radical Construction Grammar is a construction grammar, in which syntactic representation is a pairing of form and meaning. Constructions are the basic, primitive units of syntactic representation; syntactic categories are roles in constructions. The only type of syntactic relation is the role of a syntactic unit in its construction. Constructions are language-specific, though their structural properties can be mapped onto a syntactic space. Categories are mapped onto conceptual space, which represents the constraints of typological universals and reflects properties of the human mind. Radical Construction Grammar is embedded in an evolutionary theory of language. Utterances are instantiations of constructions in communicative interaction. But communication is imperfect, since we cannot read each other’s minds. Speakers are constantly reanalysing the form-meaning mapping in constructions, and this process leads to grammatical change, which can be propagated through a speech community. Grammar is thus constantly evolving as it is continually replicated in language use.
Construction Grammar · Emergent grammar · Grammar · Imperfect · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Natural language processing · Relational grammar · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Language and cultural evolution · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Concept, Image, and Symbol
Using Language
Grammatical Categories and Cognition
First Verbs
Science as a Process
Non-Verbal Predication
A-Morphous Morphology
Transformational Grammar
The Lexicon in Acquisition
Slot and frame patterns and the development of the determiner category
Do young children have adult syntactic competence?
The non-uniqueness of semantic solutions
Language Diversity and Thought
The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland
Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Syntax
Adverbial Subordination
On Conditionals
A Conceptual Framework for Grammatical Categories (or
Ergativity
The early acquisition of Spanish verbal morphology
Categoriality and Clustering
What's in a Noun? (Or
Where Have all the Adjectives Gone
The Grammaticization of Passive Morphology
On Some Origins of Medial Verb Morphology in Papuan Languages
The Creation of Tense and Aspect Systems in the Languages of the World
Marking and Hierarchy Types and the Grammaticalization of Case-Markers
Lexically-based learning and early grammatical development
Subject–verb agreement in Brazilian Portuguese
Differential productivity in young children's use of nouns and verbs
Gender
Der irokesische Sprachtyp
Inverse Verb Forms in Siberia
From Purposive to Infinitive ― A Universal Path of Grammaticization
Linguistic evidence and mental representations
Constituency, dependency, and conceptual grouping
Psycholinguistic studies on the conceptual basis of idiomaticity
Phrasal discontinuity in Polish
Agreement vs. Incorporation in Breton
Warlpiri and the grammar of non-configurational languages
Sentence types and the form-function fit
Empty categories, case, and configurationality
Deconstructing Morphology
Semantic Interpretation Vs. Lexical Governance
Nominal agent incorporation in Indonesian
Heads
Constraints on the agentless passive
Cognitive linguistics and word meaning
Zwicky on heads
Be-heading the word
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
The Binding Hierarchy and the Typology of Complements
Expression and Meaning
The agreement hierarchy
On the typology of relative clauses
Adjectives in English
The Agent Hierarchy and Voice in Some Coast Salish Languages
Relational classifiers
Semantic universals in classifier systems
On the distribution of ergative and accusative patterns
Dictionaries and encyclopedias
The categories verb-noun and transitive-intransitive in English and Squamish
The syntax of action nominals
Noun and verb in salish
Salish evidence against the universality of 'noun' and 'verb
A preliminary analysis of causative verbs in English
The decay of ergativity in Pamir languages
Principles of gestalt perception in the temporal organization of narrative texts
Comparing different models of the development of the English verb category
Intonation units and grammatical structure
Possessive genitives in English
Paratactic if-clauses
The case of the intransitive subject in Tsova-Tush (Batsbi)
Information Structuring in Papago Narrative Discourse
Idioms
Toward a Construction-Based Theory of Language Function
Passives and Related Constructions
Conditionals Are Topics
When Nouns Surface as Verbs
An Interpretation of Split Ergativity and Related Patterns
Boys Will Be Boys
Cognitive Status and the Form of Referring Expressions in Discourse
The Acquisition of Subjecthood
The Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy Reinterpreted
Thematic Proto-Roles and Argument Selection
A Comparison of Wh-Clefts and it-Clefts in Discourse
From Morpheme to Utterance
Predicates and Pronominal Arguments in Straits Salish
Transitivity in Grammar and Discourse
A Holistic Understanding of Arizona Tewa Passives
On Diachronic Sources and Synchronic Pattern
Focus and Relativization
Twistin' the Night Away
Iconicity and Generative Grammar
Regularity and Idiomaticity in Grammatical Constructions
Primary Objects, Secondary Objects, and Antidative
The Evolution of Noun Incorporation
Constraints on Coordination
Semantic Parameters of Split Intransitivity
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |