Table of Contents

Part One: Constructions
1: Overview
2: Surface Generalizations
3: Item Specific Knowledge and Generalizations
Part Two: Learning Generalizations
4: How Generalizations are Learned
5: How Generalizations are Constrained
6: Why Generalizations are Learned
Part Three: Explaining Generalizations
7: Island Constraints and Scope
8: Grammatical Categorization: Subject Auxiliary Inversion
9: Cross-linguistic Generalizations in Argument Realization
10: Variations on a Constructionist Theme
11: Conclusion
References
Index

About the Author

Adele E. Goldberg is Professor of Linguistics at Princeton University. She is author of Constructions: A construction grammar approach to argument structure (University of Chicago Press, 1995), which won the 1996 Gustave O. Arlt Book Award in the Humanities.

Reviews

I have found Ionstructions at WorkR a must-have book. The author's elegance and clarity of vision, her knowledge of research beyond linguistics proper, as well as her empathy with the reader and her honesty about the not-so-clear cases, are engaging. J. Carlos Acuna-Farina, University of Santiago de Compostela an important contribution to the study of how language operates in the mind and in the world and how these operations relate. Folia Linguistica