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8.1. Introduction 8.1. Introduction
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8.2. The Formal Architecture of SBCG 8.2. The Formal Architecture of SBCG
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8.2.1 Locality 8.2.1 Locality
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8.2.2 Variable Granularity 8.2.2 Variable Granularity
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8.2.3 A Generalized Account of Inheritance 8.2.3 A Generalized Account of Inheritance
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8.2.4 Unary Branching Constructions 8.2.4 Unary Branching Constructions
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8.3. Conclusion 8.3. Conclusion
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Acknowledgment Acknowledgment
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Notes Notes
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8 Sign-based Construction Grammar
Get accessLaura A. Michaelis is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and a faculty fellow in the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of Aspectual Grammar and Past-Time Reference (1998) and Beyond Alternations: A Constructional Model of the German Applicative Pattern (2001) (with Josef Ruppenhofer). She is the co-editor, with Elaine Francis, of Mismatch: Form-Function Incongruity and the Architecture of Grammar (2003). She is currently collaborating on a Construction Grammar monograph with Charles Fillmore, Paul Kay, and Ivan Sag. Her work has appeared in the journals Language, Journal of Semantics, Journal of Pragmatics, Cognitive Linguistics, Journal of Linguistics, Linguistics and Philosophy, and Studies in Language.
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Published:16 December 2013
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Abstract
This chapter discusses the concept of Sign-Based Construction Grammar (SBCG), which evolved out of ideas from Berkeley Construction Grammar and construction-based Head-Driven Phrase-Structure Grammar (HPSG). The leading insight of SBCG is that the lexicon provides a model for the syntax-semantics interface. The chapter explains that though SBCG cannot be divorced from the formal conventions it uses to represent lexemes, constructions, and the hierarchical relations among types, it offers insights to construction grammarians whose work is not primarily formal. It also considers the strict locality constraint of SBCG, the avoidance of overgeneralization, inheritance, as well as the treatment of inflectional and derivation processes.
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