What is it about?
Instead of assuming a single network of syntactic constructions, three grammatical linking mechanisms are distinguished: verb-mediated constructions, attribution and scope-based perspectivizing, These mechanisms function independently, but are also linked in interfaces, thus permitting new explanations of challenging areas of English grammar such as negation, modality, adverbials and nonfinite constructions. In addition, fresh light is cast on a number of aspects of early child language.
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Why is it important?
The book attempts to show that the neglected combination of constructionist thought, time-hallowed functional categories like attribution and online processing phenomena like perspectivizing may provide new linguistic insights.
Perspectives
I think it's time that attempts are made to transcend classical constructionist approaches to language in search of new linguistic frameworks
Friedrich Ungerer
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This page is a summary of: How Grammar Links Concepts, July 2017, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/hcp.57.
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