Construction grammar is an approach to language that posits that units and structures in
language can be exhaustively described as pairings between form and meaning. These …

In their seminal 1968 article Weinreich, Labov, and Herzog show with regard to the linguistic
theories developed by Paul, Saussure, Bloomfield, and Chomsky that “each refinement in …

Construction Grammar is a nomadic family of theoretical approaches whose members are
constantly moving in various directions. The diversity in construction-based approaches is a …

Construction Grammar has its origin in the early work of Charles Fillmore and his Berkeley
associates. It has, by now, become a viable alternative to other contemporary linguistic …

Can language relatedness be established without cognate words? This question has
remained unresolved since the nineteenth century, leaving language prehistory beyond …

This squib first sketches the state-of-the-art in diachronic construction grammar by tracing it
back to two strands of research which it distinguishes as historical construction grammar and …

The essential aim of comparative linguistics is to investigate language families and to
reconstruct a proto-language (a common ancestor) for each family. Reconstructions of the …

My concern in this chapter is with the broad-scale design of language. I believe it is
impossible to understand language design without taking account of language change …

An approach to interpreting possible steps in language evolution is offered here from
systemic functional linguistic (SFL) theory. SFL models language at three levels from sounds …

As the historical morphosyntactic branch of 'cognitive linguistics', research in 'diachronic
construction grammar', which concerns itself with the study and theory of the evolution of the …