Logical and typological arguments for Radical Construction Grammar

This paper gives a brief overview of some of the primary arguments for Radical Construction Grammar (Croft 2001). Radical Construction Grammar is a theory of syntactic representation which is compatible with—in fact, I believe, is a consequence of—the facts of the grammars of human languages. In fact, Radical Construction Grammar proposes an extremely minimalist model of syntax from a universal perspective, as will be seen below.

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