Construction Grammar as a Solution to Periphery of Language

Authors

  • Zineta Lagumdžija University of Bihać, BiH

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7251/fil1307112l

Abstract

Parallel with the emergence of new language structures, new models of language descriptions have developed as well. One of the most attractive theoretical models of language description in the last few decades is construction grammar. Construction grammar is not a single theory, but a variety of similar theories, which share the assumption that human language at all linguistic levels consists of signs. These signs represent the unity of form and meaning and are named “constructions”. Trends in linguistics in developed language systems very often enter less developed language systems, conditionally speaking, and also quite late, due to language barriers. Since construction grammar is a relatively new grammatical theoretical model, the aim of this paper is to help linguists in Bosnia and Herzegovina to get to know some of the basic features of this model based on the most quoted works in German and English linguistics.

Published

2013-06-30

Issue

Section

Language