The Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar

Bringing together research from an international team of scholars, this volume provides an overview of the theory of Construction Grammar.

Mirjam Fried (Edited by), Kiki Nikiforidou (Edited by)

9781316511176, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 6 February 2025

674 pages
25 x 17.5 x 4 cm, 1.32 kg

'This Cambridge Handbook depicts Construction Grammar in its very essence: a vibrant, inclusive, and wide-ranging theoretical environment, whose scientific community engages in a vast array of phenomena, domains, and challenges. This volume will be an essential reference for many years to come and a source of inspiration for linguists who want to explore the potential of Construction Grammar beyond its comfort zone.' Francesca Masini, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Bologna

Construction Grammar is one of the fastest-growing branches of functional syntax. Bringing together an international team of scholars, this handbook provides a complete overview of the current issues and applications in this approach. Divided into six thematic parts, it covers the fundamental notions of Construction Grammar, its conceptual origins and the basic ideas that unite its various branches, its solid empirical grounding and affinities with corpus linguistics, and the diverse perspectives in constructional scholarship. It highlights advances in discourse-related topics and applications to various domains, including multimodal communication, language learning and teaching and computational linguistics, and each chapter contains numerous illustrative examples and case studies involving a variety of languages. It also includes in-depth, empirically-grounded analyses of diverse theoretical, methodological, and interdisciplinary issues, alongside step-by-step introductions to the theory, making it essential reading for both researchers and students working in functional and cognitive approaches to linguistic analysis and syntactic theory.

Introduction Mirjam Fried and Kiki Nikiforidou
Part I. The Constructional View of Language: 1. Frame semantics Yoshiko Matsumoto
2. Constructional syntax Hans C. Boas
3. Framenets and constructicons Lars Borin and Benjamin Lyngfelt
4. Construction morphology and relational morphology Ray Jackendoff and Jenny Audring
5. Metaphors and constructions Karen Sullivan
Part II. Methodological and Empirical Foundations of Constructional Research: 6. Frequency: psychological and methodological considerations Martin Hilpert
7. Corpus linguistics and the cognitive/constructional endeavor Stefan Gries
8. Behavioral evidence and experimental methods Florent Perek
9. Constructional networks Lotte Sommerer and Freek Van de Velde
Part III. Case Studies in Constructional Morphosyntax
10. Different constructional approaches in practice: a comparative study Remi van Trijp
11. Syntactic innovation and functional amalgams Laura A. Michaelis
12. Constructions in spoken interaction Jan Lindström
Part IV. Multimodality and Construction Grammar: 13. Prosodic constructions Nigel G. Ward
14. Insubordination at the interaction of discourse, grammar, and prosody
15. Construction grammar and gesture Elisabeth Zima
16. Constructional approaches to signed language Sherman Wilcox and Rocío Martínez
Part V. Constructions in Socio-Cultural and Typological Variation: 17. Constructions in typological and cross-linguistic context William Croft
18. Constructions and language contact Marianne Mithun
19. Constructions and lectal variation Timothy Colleman and Dirk Noël
20. Construction discourse Jan-Ola Östman
Part VI. Constructional Applications: 21. Construction grammar and artificial intelligence Katrien Beuls and Paul Van Eecke
22. Construction grammar and language models Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Laurence Romain, Petar Milin and Dagmar Divjak
23. Construction-based language learning and teaching Sabine de Knop
24. Construction grammar and literature Alexander Bergs.

Subject Areas: Grammar, syntax & morphology [CFK]