Construction Grammar: 7. Constructionist Word-formation II

How does Construction Grammar account for non-morphological word-formation processes such as blending, clipping, back-formation, alphabetisms and acronyms? How does it differ from traditional morpheme-based approaches? This video will show you how word-formation is explained by Construction Grammar. Lecture notes available at Academia.edu: https://www.academia.edu/44927805/Construction_Grammar_Week_7_Constructionist_Morphology_II Further reading: Hoffmann, Thomas. 2022. Construction Grammar: The Structure of English. (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/construction-grammar/D0577C9957038E384A2A1F04E6A73B7E#overview