Constrction grammar is annoying.
the first reason is that the prensention of it is so confusing. the speaker tries every effort to pesent the hardest theories about it rather than just elaborate and speak frankly about it. And the one who gives comment on the presentation carries a confusing point of view. They think that the deeper and the more you talk the better you are.
In fact I hardly get the meaning of the presentaion in the past half year. I donn't buy it that most classmates are just thrumb through it and ignore it as it didn't exist. that's sad.
Wagging the traditional point of that languge is a system consists of many levels of structure, the comstrction grammar tries to treat language as a construction as parings of meaning and forms that stored human memory and specified with regard to semantic, syntactic and pragmatic structure,
Frankly speking, it is the parings of meaning and syntax and function.。Tho fits own.e construction carries a meaning
For example, those verbs that don't suggest a caused-motion meaning.
Frank sneezed the tissue off the table, This sentence can be derived from a construction of the sentence Frank pushed the tissue off the table.
the other example is the trransitive-causing verbs distinguished from the sense of central intransitive meaning of verbs like sit and stand. She stand the flower-pot on the window-still.
From the point of Argument-structure constraction, complex sentence construction and idiom construction, the author talk a lot about it.
从习语构式， 复杂句构式和命题结构构式展开讨论。讨论的基础是
central components Motion,Figure,Path,Ground. In addtion, the manner and cause components.
习语主要是有些可以推测出意思的习语formal idiom例如 ｗｈｙ ｎｏｔ ｆｉｘ ｉｔ ｙｏｕｒｓｅｌｆ．和揣测不出意思的习语 ｂｉｔｅ ｔｈｅ ｄｕｓｔ
现在讨论的是这种违反常规语法却是合法的句子。把他们视为不能但从字面理解的句子构式。应该把他们视为只有结合语意和语用来解释的句式。ｌｅｔ ａｌｏｎｅ．
Ｈｅ ｗｉｐｅｄ ｔｈｅ ｔａｂｌｅ ｃｌｅａｎ．
复杂句从物化一件事来举例。例如ｔｈｅ ｆａｃｔ ｔｈａｔ．