What Makes the Strengths of Construction Grammar
Hou Guo-ji · Shandong Foreign Language Teaching Journal · 2014
The paper starts with a sketch of the strengths of Construction Grammar. Then it has two sections for illustration of how CG widens the scope of grammar studies,maintaining that CG helps solve hard grammar nuts like lexico-semantic attribution,verb valency( vicious circle),agentivity-patientivity issues with existential constructions,semantic issues with VO constructions,parts of speech and so on. This is followed by elaboration of how CG replenishes other grammars( eg. Generative Grammar) which is exemplified by instances of complementation between interpretations by light verb and byquantitative-relation construction,and is also exemplified by the powerful BE-to constructionanalysis of Goldberg in contrast to Word Grammar and Functional Grammar among other things.