New book by Thomas Hoffmann: Construction Grammar - The Structure of English

Thomas and I sit down to discuss his new book on Construction Grammar.

Thomas Hoffmann on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/hoffmann070276

0:00 Introduction
1:01 Welcome Thomas!
3:09 What is the book about?
5:25 Why should students care about CxG?
7:26 CxG and Chomskyan linguistics
11:15 What is usage-based CxG?
13:56 The role of semantics
18:25 Variation and change
23:29 Variations of CxG
31:45 Disagreements with Goldberg, Fillmore, Croft
37:41 Thank you and goodbye