This book investigates the nature of generalization in language and examines how language is known by adults and acquired by children. It looks at how and why constructions are learned, the relation between their forms and functions, and how cross-linguistic and language-internal generalizations about them can be explained. Constructions at Work is divided into three parts: in the first Professor Goldberg provides an overview of constructionist approaches, including the constructionist approach to argument structure, and argues for a usage-based model of grammar. In Part II she addresses issues concerning how generalizations are constrained and constructional generalizations are learned. In Part III the author shows that a combination of function and processing accounts for a wide range of language-internal and cross-linguistic generalizations. She then considers the degree to which the function of constructions explains their distribution and examines cross-linguistic tendencies in argument realization. She demonstrates that pragmatic and cognitive processes account for the data without appeal to stipulations that are language-specific.This book is an important contribution to the study of how language operates in the mind and in the world and how these operations relate. It is of central interest for scholars and graduate-level students in all branches of theoretical linguistics and psycholinguistics. It will also appeal to cognitive scientists and philosophers concerned with language and its acquisition.

本丛书试图以浅显的文字和简明的方式，对大学、中学语言教师以及广大语文工作者和学习者介绍现代语言学各领域、各流派的基本理论。现代语言学是一门迅捷发展、方面极广的科学。它所研究的对象是语言，是承载信息的工具，而信息的传递和处理关系到社会文化的繁荣。因此它是现代杜会中的一门关键性科学。这门科学所提出的问题等待着有心的学习者去思考，它所提出的答案需要加以验证。

本书是讨论英语测试问题的学术专著。分析了相互之间的关系, 介绍了衡量标准的不同类型及其各自的特性, 并重点介绍了衡量测试结果的两个重要特性: 可靠性和有效性, 以及衡量的局限性。讨论了教育项目中对语言测试的各种应用, 阐述了语言测试研究的用途, 也对语言测试进行了分

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