🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

构式语法

Pronunciation / Transliteration: gòushì yǔfǎ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Construction Grammar/kənˈstrʌk.ʃən ˈɡræm.ər/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"构式语法是现代语言学的重要流派之一。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A linguistic framework that treats all units of language—ranging from morphemes and words to complex idioms and syntactic patterns—as learned pairings of form and conventionalized meaning.

    "Construction grammar rejects the traditional strict dichotomy between lexicon and syntax."
  2. 2

    The specific theoretical approach proposing that grammatical knowledge consists of an inventory of constructions.

    "Her research in construction grammar focuses on how children acquire argument structure generalizations."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term derives from the English noun 'construction' (from Latin 'constructio', meaning 'a building together, arrangement') and 'grammar' (from Greek 'grammatikē', meaning 'art of letters'). As a formalized linguistic theory, it emerged in the late 20th century through the work of cognitive and functional linguists like Charles Fillmore, Adele Goldberg, and George Lakoff, shifting the focus of linguistic study from abstract syntactic rules to learned pairing of form and meaning.

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🇫🇷French → English

grammaire de construction

Transliteration: gram-mair de kɔn-stryk-sjɔ̃

"La grammaire de construction étudie l'association entre la forme et le sens."

🇩🇪German → English

Konstruktionsgrammatik

Transliteration: kɔn-stʁʊkˈtsi̯oːnsɡʁaˌmatik

"Die Konstruktionsgrammatik verbindet Syntax und Semantik eng miteinander."

🇮🇹Italian → English

grammatica di costruzione

Transliteration: ɡram-ˈma-ti-ka di kos-tru-ˈt͡sjo-ne

"La grammatica di costruzione analizza i modelli linguistici convenzionali."

🇪🇸Spanish → English

gramática de construcción

Transliteration: ɡɾaˈmatika ðe kons.tɾukˈsjon

"La teoría de la construcción analiza cómo las formas lingüísticas adquieren significado."

🇵🇹Portuguese → English

gramática de construções

Transliteration: ɡɾaˈmatikɐ dʒi kõstɾuˈsõjs

"A gramática de construções considera que a sintaxe e o léxico formam um continuum."

🇮🇳Hindi → English

रचना व्याकरण

Transliteration: rachana vyakaran

"रचना व्याकरण भाषा विज्ञान की एक आधुनिक शाखा है।"

🇨🇳Chinese → English

构式语法

Transliteration: gòushì yǔfǎ

"构式语法是现代语言学的重要流派之一。"

🇰🇷Korean → English

구문 문법

Transliteration: gumun munbeop

"구문 문법은 언어 형식과 의미의 쌍을 강조한다."

🇯🇵Japanese → English

構文文法

Transliteration: kōbun bunpō

"構文文法では、文法規則と語彙が連続的なものとして捉えられる。"

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