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/Construction_Grammar_Week_1_Introduction Note that under YouTube's fair use regulations, the tutorial provides a linguistic analysis of short excerpts from the following clips: - 'unGucci': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeSCkIXxgvI 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/)