Publications
Publication details [#42592]
Östman, Jan-Ola and Mirjam Fried. 2005. Construction Grammar and spoken language: The case of pragmatic particles. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (11) : 1752–1778.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study demonstrates that Construction Grammar can be usefully applied to examine the complexities of spoken language, if the notion of construction is extended in a dialogical direction. It then uses CG to investigate a number of pragmatic particles as form-function constellations in Czech.