A Complementary Study of Lexicalist Approaches and Constructionist Approaches

This book presents a complementary study of lexicalist approaches and constructionist approaches in Linguistics. Specific topics discussed include different versions of semantic roles, predicate decomposition, event structures, argument realizations, and cognitive construction grammars.

Qilong Cheng, Professor of Linguistics at Shanghai University, China. Professor Cheng is developing a formal model to account for the realization relations between richer conceptual contents and various constructions. He has been cultivating a hyper-disciplinary view with a formal model which is not incompatible with neurological evidence and is operational in both comprehension and production processes.
Qianwen Cheng, Lecturer of English at Shanghai University, China. In her recent published articles, Dr. Cheng is developing a new version of Cognitive Event Frame to adequately account for both the verb-construction associations and the alternate realizations.