Good question, Martha. It's new to me too. It's an approach to

grammar derived from the more general cognitive linguistics

It argues that a grammar and its compositional meanings derive from a store of constructions and that acquiring a language entails learning those constructions within which are couched what we normally think of as the building blocks of language.

I can say no more than that as I understand no more than that.

Ron Sheen

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