Construction grammar

Noun

Definitions

1.NounA family of theories within the field of cognitive linguistics which posit that constructions, or learned pairings of linguistic patterns with meanings, are the fundamental building blocks of human language.

Synonyms

categorial grammar grammatical construction transformational grammar social constructionism structural linguistics psycholinguistics grammar grammatical relation programming language theory generative grammar cognitive linguistics structuralism

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