Embodied Construction Grammar
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Construction-based approaches to grammar are driven by the insight that meaning plays a crucial role in answering this question: the meanings of both words and grammatical structures can affect grammaticality, and they should therefore be incorporated into grammatical representations. To wit, the various approaches presented in this volume take this tack in predicting the grammaticality of utterances of all sorts, from the creative to the conventional. But focusing on utterance grammaticality removes utterances from their physical and social contexts of use. The result is an approach to language that resembles traditional anatomy, in which utterances are dissected, categorized, and explained in terms of their structural and distributional properties. Insights from such an approach can be both useful and informative in accounting for what utterances are or potentially could be. They do not, however, explain human language use—that is, the mechanisms and representations that human beings use to learn, produce, and understand utterances. If we are interested in these latter issues, issues more properly situated within cognitive science than analytical linguistics, then we find our investigations of grammar (and language more generally) guided by a different sort of question:
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