Berkeley Construction Grammar

Contributors:
C. Fillmore (fillmore@icsi.berkeley.edu)
P. Kay (kay@cogsci.berkeley.edu)

This started out as a class web-page, a spring-semester version of Linguistics 220, UCB, but will now serve as a location for various kinds of material, the newest being current drafts of a work-in-progress, Construction Grammar, by CJF and PK.

Chapter One STILL NOT READY

Chapter Two: Formal Architecture of CG (Postscript file) Revised on 5/5/97. This is a preliminary try at a new conception of the formal architecture of CG, on which all comments and corrections will be gratefuly received.

Links

• Lecture Outlines
  • Jan. 17 Introduction, outline of the material to be covered in the course
  • Jan. 22,24 CJF on Idiomaticity
  • Jan. 29,31 PK on Head Principles
  • Feb. 5,7 CJF on Auxiliaries (sort of ready)
  • Feb 12,14,19,26 PK on Argument Structure Constructions
  • Feb 28, March 4 CJF on Landmark/Direction/Magnitude Constructions
  • March 6,11,13 CJF on Conditional Sentences
  • March 18,20 PK on the "WXDY" Construction
  • April 1, 3 PK on Left Isolation
  • April 8,10 CJF on Secondary Predication
  • April 15 CJF on Extraposition: ABANDONED!
• Readings
  • Paul Kay: Construction Grammar. Not available from this site; see note above.
  • Charles Fillmore: Outline of CG Text
  • Feature Structures (Revised) Based on Sect. 5.0 of the 1995 version of the CG text.
  • Grammatical Constructions and Linguistic Generalizations: the What's X doing Y? Construction Paul Kay and Charles J. Fillmore. This is the same item as that listed above for the lectures of March 18, 20.
  • An Informal Sketch of a Formal Architecture for Construction Grammar, Paul Kay.
    
• Constructicon (watch this space!)
• Bibliography (very incomplete)
• Glossary (just beginning)
• Other linguistics web pages