Sign-Based Construction Grammar: An informal synopsis

1Above all, I’d like to thank Paul Kay for hours of discussion and useful feedback at every stage in the seemingly endless process of writing this chapter. I’m also grateful to Chuck Fillmore and Laura Michaelis for many useful discussions of both content and exposition and for comments on an earlier draft, which was also been improved by the comments of Rui Chaves, Adele Goldberg, Bill Croft, Adam Przepiórkowski, Russell Lee-Goldman, and Hans Boas. In addition, discussions with the following people have been quite helpful: Farrell Ackerman, Emily Bender, Dan Flickinger, Mark Gawron, Andreas Kathol, Beth Levin, Bob Levine, Stefan Müller, Frank Van Eynde, Tom Wasow, Gert Webelhuth, and Steve Wechsler. None of the views expressed here should be attributed to any of these individuals; nor should they be held responsible for any remaining errors. 2 SBCG owes a considerable debt to the implementation work carried out within CSLI’s LinGO Lab and the DELPHIN consortium, whose grammar development efforts have proceeded in parallel with the evolution of SBCG. See Copestake 2001, Flickinger 2000, Uszkoreit et al. 2000, and the online resources available at http://lingo.stanford.edu/ and http://www.delph-in.net/. 3See Pollard and Sag 1987 Pollard and Sag 1994, Ginzburg and Sag 2000, and Richter 2004, inter alia.