This issue contains a new Review Article and Discussion section.
The idea
is to ask a leading researcher to contribute an article which can either
be a
review of a field or an extended book review and to then ask for commentaries
on the piece by other researchers. In this issue the section consists of
a
commentary by Michael Tomasello on Adele Goldberg's Constructions:
a
construction grammar approach to argument structure together with
twelve
commentaries and a reply. The next of these sections will be an extended
review by Matthew Rispoli of Rethinking innateness: a connectionist
perspective
on development by Jeffrey Elman, Elizabeth Bates, Mark Johnson,
Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Domenico Parisis and Kim Plunkett. I very much
hope that readers will find the new section an interesting and useful
contribution to theoretical and methodological discussion in the field.
Of
course the success of this venture depends on contributions from a wide
range of theoretical perspectives and on people's willingness to make
these
contributions even where they sharply disagree with the thesis of the review
article.
Martin Hilpert, Ten Lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2021
