Construction Grammar: 1. Introduction

This is the first video of a series of short lectures on Construction Grammar.

What does the term 'grammar' refer to – just a book or also what's in your head? This video discusses a theory called Construction Grammar and shows that the central units of your mental grammar are 'constructions'!

Lecture notes available at Academia.edu:
https://www.academia.edu/44483407/Con...

Note that under YouTube's fair use regulations, the tutorial provides a linguistic analysis of short excerpts from the following clips:

- 'unGucci':    • Видео   by Tommy Maxson (31 December 2017)

- 'Bekah M. finally spilled the beans about her age. Jimmy Kimmel Live (23 January 2018; from the Newsscape corpus https://tvnews.sscnet.ucla.edu/public/)

- 'They were able to cut the turtle loose.' KABC Eyewitness News 11PM (23 March 2017; from the Newsscape corpus https://tvnews.sscnet.ucla.edu/public/)