Construction Grammar and the Syntax-Semantics Interface
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چکیده
A foundational assumption of traditional generative grammar is that a grammar is organized in the mind of the speaker as a number of hermetically sealed modules, which in the course of a derivation hand off data one to the other.1 Sign-Based Construction Grammar (SBCG) assumes that the grammar contains no such modules, but rather that grammar is an inventory of signs, complexes of linguistic constraints that contain information about form, meaning, and use, and that constructions are the means by which simpler signs are combined into more complex signs. The notion of construction, on this view, is a formalization, in a constraint-based architecture, of the notion of construction in traditional grammar. A simple illustration of a construction is the subjectless tagged sentence shown in (1):
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