Construction Grammar
The term construction grammar (CxG) covers a family of theories, or models, of grammar that are based on the idea that the primary unit of grammar is the grammatical construction rather than the atomic syntactic unit and the rule that combines atomic units, and that the grammar of a language is made up of taxonomies of families of constructions.
CxG is typically associated with cognitive linguistics, partly because many of the linguists that are involved in CxG are also involved in cognitive linguistics, and partly because CxG and cognitive linguistics share many theoretical and philosophical foundations.
Read more about Construction Grammar: Some History, The Grammatical Construction in CxG, Syntax-lexicon Continuum, Grammar As An Inventory of Constructions, Synonymy and Monotony, Some Construction Grammars
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