3. Construction Grammar

Broadly construed, Construction Grammar is a constraint-based, generative, non-derivational, mono-stratal grammatical approach to the modeling of linguistic knowledge that is committed to incorporating the cognitive and interactional aspects of language. The central tenet of Construction Grammar is the claim that language is a repertoire of more or less complex and conventionalized templactic patterns of phonologic, morphologic syntactic, semantics, and/or pragmatic information. Such conventionalized templates (constructions) form intricate networks of overlapping and complementary patterns that are used during comprehension and production to encode and decode linguistic expressions in context, while attending to extralinguistic information.