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Construction Grammar

المؤلف:  Vyvyan Evans and Melanie Green

المصدر:  Cognitive Linguistics an Introduction

الجزء والصفحة:  C19-P653

2026-03-04

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Construction Grammar

Book: Cognitive Linguistics an Introduction

Author: Vyvyan Evans and Melanie Green

Page: C19-653

In this section, we sketch out the architecture of Kay and Fillmore’s theory of Construction Grammar. It is not our objective to provide a detailed account of this model here as this would take us into a discussion of formal models that is beyond the scope of this book. Instead, we will try to give a sense of how this model departs from the ‘words and rules’ approach that characterises most generative approaches to grammar and how it thus sets the scene for the emergence of usage-based constructional models in the cognitive linguistics paradigm, which we turn to in detail in the next chapter. Kay and Fillmore (1999: 7) state that the Construction Grammar approach has ‘the ability to demonstrate the smooth interaction of relatively idiomatic constructions, like WXDY, with the more familiar constructions in licensing the sentences of the language.’ In other words, the Construction Grammar commitment is to provide an integrated account of both the regular and the idiomatic properties of language.