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Grammatical Constructions and Linguistic Generalizations. The What's X Doing Y? Construction.
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Kay, Paul; Fillmore, Charles J. – Language, 1999
Uses a detailed analysis of a single grammatical problem to present the principal commitments and mechanisms of a grammatical theory that assigns a central role to the notion of grammatical construction. The grammatical phenomenon used to introduce construction grammar is the construction that licenses the surprising syntactic and semantic…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory, Semantics