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Constructing a protolanguage: Reconstructing prehistoric languages in a usage-based construction grammar framework

2020-11-18

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<p>Construction grammar is an approach to language which posits that units and structures in language can be exhaustively described as pairings between form and meaning. These pairings are called constructions and can have different degrees of abstraction, i.e. they span the entire range from very concrete (Armadillo, avocado) to very abstract constructions such as the ditransitive construction (I gave her a book)...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/w8mtu

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