本书是一部构式语法理论教材性专著。全书以课堂讲授式轻松幽默的语言，用浅近易懂的自然语言实例介绍了构式语法理论的基本语言观、核心主张和特色，并从多个方面介绍了构式语法理论在英语各层面的理论研究以及应用性研究中的实践操作方法。内容丰富，重点突出，讲解细致，深入浅出，每章之后附有精要提问式内容总结和延伸性拓展读物推介，能满足学习者初步了解和掌握构式语法理论精要和研究实践操作基本方法的需要，也是开展构式语法研究的重要参考书。
本书是一部构式语法理论教材性专著。作者马丁?休伯特(Martin Hilpert)是德籍语言学家，现为瑞士纳沙泰尔大学(Université de Neuchatel)英语语言学教授。全书以课堂讲授式轻松幽默的语言、用浅近易懂的自然语言实例介绍了构式语法理论的基本语言观、核心思想主张和特色，并从多个重要方面对构式语法理论在英语各层面的理论研究和应用性研究里的实践操作方法进行了介绍和阐释。全书内容丰富，重点突出，讲解细致，深入浅出，每章之后附有提问式内容总结和拓展读物推介，适于我国语言学专业高年级本科生和研究生初步了解和掌握构式语法理论精要和科研实践操作基本方法，也是开展构式语法研究的重要参考书。
Contents
List of tables and figures ix
Acknowledgements x
To readers: Why you shouldn't pick up, let alone read, this book xi
1 Introducing Construction Grammar 1
1.1 What do you know when you know a language? 1
1.1.1 Idiomatic expressions permeate ordinary
language 3
1.1.2 Idiomatic expressions are more than fixed strings 5
1.1.3 Idiomatic expressions are productive 7
1.1.4 The growth of the appendix 7
1.2 What is a construction? 8
1.2.1 Defining constructions: a first try 9
1.2.2 Defining constructions: beyond
non-predictability 12
1.3 Identifying constructions 14
1.3.1 Does the expression deviate from canonical
patterns? 14
1.3.2 Does the expression carry non-compositional
meaning? 16
1.3.3 Does the expression have idiosyncratic
constraints? 18
1.3.4 Does the expression have collocational
preferences? 20
1.4 Summing up 22
1.5 Outline of the following chapters 23
Study questions 23
Further reading 24
2 Argument structure constructions 25
2.1 Analysing ‘simple sentences’ 25
2.2 Argument structure 26
2.3 Valency-increasing constructions 31
2.3.1 The DITRANSITIVE construction 31
2.3.2 The CAUSED MOTION construction 35
2.3.3 The WAY construction 36
2.4 Valency-decreasing constructions 39
2.4.1 The PASSIVE 39
2.4.2 The IMPERATIVE construction 42
2.4.3 NULL INSTANTIATION 44
2.5 Relations between argument structure constructions 45
2.6 Summing up 47
Study questions 49
Further reading 49
3 Inside the construct-i-con 50
3.1 Meaningless constructions? 50
3.2 The construct-i-con: a network of interlinked
constructions 57
3.2.1 Inheritance 57
3.2.2 Kinds of inheritance links 60
3.2.3 Complete inheritance vs. redundant
representations 65
3.3 ‘Normal syntax’ in Construction Grammar 67
3.4 Summing up 71
Study questions 72
Further reading 73
4 Constructional morphology 74
4.1 More than a theory of syntax 74
4.1.1 one wug, two wugs 74
4.1.2 skypable 75
4.1.3 shpants 77
4.1.4 a what-the-heck-is-wrong-with-you look 79
4.2 Morphological constructions and their properties 80
4.2.1 Morphological productivity 81
4.2.2 Paradigmatic organisation 83
4.2.3 Non-compositional meanings 85
4.2.4 Simultaneous affixation 86
4.3 Constructional solutions to morphological puzzles 88
4.3.1 Affix ordering 88
4.3.2 Compounding 93
4.4 Summing up 97
Study questions 99
Further reading 100
5 Information packaging constructions 101
5.1 The pragmatic side of Construction Grammar 101
5.1.1 Information packaging: the basics 104
5.1.2 Presupposition and assertion 105
5.1.3 Activation 107
5.1.4 Topic and focus 109
5.2 Information packaging and grammar 111
5.2.1 Cleft constructions 112
5.2.2 Dislocation and related constructions 117
5.3 Island constraints 123
5.4 Summing up 126
Study questions 128
Further reading 128
6 Constructions and language processing 130
6.1 The quest for behavioural evidence 130
6.2 Evidence from language comprehension 132
6.2.1 Constructions explain how hearers understand
novel denominal verbs 132
6.2.2 Constructional meanings are routinely accessed
in sentence comprehension 134
6.2.3 Constructions explain knowledge of grammatical
unacceptability 137
6.2.4 Constructions explain incidental verbatim
memory 142
6.3 Evidence from language production 144
6.3.1 Constructions explain reduction effects in
speech 144
6.3.2 Constructions explain syntactic priming, and
exceptions to syntactic priming 145
6.3.3 Constructions explain how speakers complete
sentences 148
6.4 Summing up 151
Study questions 154
Further reading 154
7 Constructions and language acquisition 155
7.1 Construction Grammar for kids 155
7.1.1 Item-based learning 156
7.1.2 The sociocognitive foundation of language
learning 158
7.2 Evidence for the item-based nature of language learning 163
7.3 From item-based schemas to constructions 169
7.4 The acquisition of complex sentences 172
7.5 Summing up 176
Study questions 178
Further reading 178
8 Language variation and change 179
8.1 Language myths 179
8.2 Constructional variation 181
8.2.1 There’s more than one way to do it 181
8.2.2 Variation in syntactic constructions: the example
of relative clauses 183
8.2.3 Analysing variation between constructions 185
8.3 Constructional variation across groups of speakers 191
8.4 Constructional change: variation across time 194
8.5 Summing up 199
Study questions 200
Further reading 201
9 Concluding remarks 202
References 205
Index 217
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