This book brings together research in cognitive linguistics and experimental psychology to construct a psychologically plausible account of grammar as a mental

Provides a dynamic network model of grammar that explains how linguistic structure is shaped by language use.

This volume brings together ten contributions by leading experts who present their current usage-based research in Diachronic Construction Grammar. All papers c

Syntax puts our meaning (“semantics”) into sentences, and phonology puts the sentences into the sounds that we hear and there must, surely, be a structure i

This volume brings into focus the conceptual roots of the notion ‘grammatical construction’ as the theoretical entity that constitutes the backbone of Const