Book review of J. François (Ed.) (2021). L’expansion pluridisciplinaire des grammaires de constructions. Caen: Presses universitaires de Caen
(2023) Constructions and Frames — Vol. 15, n° 2, p. 282-290 (2023)
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- Construction Grammar (henceforth CxG) has become a worldwide influential theoretical framework in linguistics over the last decades. A focus mainly on English is however still typical of a long tradition of research in CxG. Surprisingly, this observation does not only hold for “smaller” languages, but also still applies to prominent languages such as French. In 2021, Jacques François, professor emeritus of the University of Caen in France, brought together nine chapters on CxG mostly applied to French in the edited volume L’expansion pluridisciplinaire des Grammaires de Constructions, published by Presses Universitaires de Caen. The central aim of the book is to demonstrate how CxG has considerably contributed to yield pluridisciplinary approaches in French linguistics and to enhance the appreciation for this theoretical framework among French (and more generally European) linguists because of these innovative extensions. The present review article summarizes the different chapters of this book and evaluates its relevance for the linguistic community in France and abroad.
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Van Goethem, K. (2023). Book review of J. François (Ed.) (2021). L’expansion pluridisciplinaire des grammaires de constructions. Caen: Presses universitaires de Caen. Constructions and Frames, 15(2), 282-290. https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.00076.van (Original work published 2023)