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TOWARDS THE ISSUE OF CONSTRUCTIONISM IN ENGLISH

TOWARDS THE ISSUE OF CONSTRUCTIONISM IN ENGLISH


Author:  I.Yu. Kolesov

Abstract:  The article author touches upon some issues of analyzing English in terms of construction grammar approach and treats a number of syntactic constructions together with some word-building patterns.

Keywords:  constructionism of language, syntax, word-building.

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Pages:  491-498

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