Radical construction grammar: syntactic theory in typological perspective

William Croft0198299559, 9780198299554, 0198299540, 9780198299547, 9780191544798

This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but rather syntactic-semantic “Gestalts”. He puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work.