Editing Construction Grammar (section)

== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Remembering</span> ==
* '''Construction''' — Any "Learned pairing" of "Form" (Sound/Structure) and "Function" (Meaning/Usage).
* '''The Construction Lexicon''' — The idea that "Words," "Phrases," and "Grammar" are all part of the "Same List" in the brain.
* '''Idiomatic Construction''' — A pattern whose meaning "Cannot be guessed" from its parts (e.g., 'To kick the bucket').
* '''Abstract Construction''' — A "Template" with "Holes" to be filled (e.g., [Subject] [Verb] [Direct Object]).
* '''Usage-Based Model''' — The theory that we learn grammar by "Watching how people use it," not from a "Universal Grammar" (Chomsky).
* '''Compositionality''' (Broken) — CxG argues that "The Whole is MORE than the sum of its parts" (A 'Sneeze the napkin off the table' construction makes 'Sneeze' act like a verb of motion).
* '''Frame Semantics''' (Fillmore) — The "Scene" or "Story" that a word "Brings with it" (e.g., 'Sell' brings 'Buyer,' 'Seller,' 'Money,' and 'Goods').
* '''Radial Categories''' — The idea that some constructions are "Central" and others are "Extended" (like 'Fringe' versions).
* '''Coercion''' — When a construction "Forces" a word to change its meaning (e.g., 'He coughed me a question' - 'Cough' becomes a communication verb).
* '''Adelle Goldberg''' — A key modern researcher who proved that "Constructions" are "Cognitively Real" through experiments.
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