Outline of Construction Grammar Textbook
1. Preliminaries
What is a grammar?
What are syntactic data?
Types of grammatical constructions?
Representation
Argumentation
The Determination Construction
2. Descriptive and representational tools
Attributes and values
Feature structures
Complex values
Constituent structure and feature structures
Unification
Unspecified values
Structures
Combination of constructions
Constructs
3. Simple nominal constructions
Massive rewriting!
4. Constituent types
Headedness
Level features
Head features
Headed structures
Non-headed structures
Survey of verbal structures
Survey of non-verbal structures
5. *Idiomaticity
Idiomaticity, compositionality, and productivity
Encoding versus decoding
Morphological, lexical, and phrasal idioms
Speech formulas: pragmatically functioning idioms
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6. Valence
7.* PVP and SP
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8. *Argument structure constructions
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9. *Adjuncts
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10. *Modification
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11. Co-instantiation
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12. *Auxiliaries and the Copula
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13. *Predication
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14. Inversion and its "Heirs"
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15. *Polarity
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16. *Constructional Morphology
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17. *Extraposition
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18. *Digression: Valence Command
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19. *Left Isolation
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20. *Tough
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21. *Anaphora
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22. *Coordination
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23. *Subordination
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24. *Idiomaticity again