Behind the Words

Martin Hilpert is Professor of English Linguistics at the Institute of English language and literature, Université de Neuchâtel. He is passionate about language and has a YouTube channel with more than 30,000 subscribers. In 2018 he received his university's annual best teaching award. His notable publications include Construction Grammar and its Application to English (2019).

• 1. The Forest and the Trees; 2. Discovering Meaning Together: Joint Attention; 3. I Spy With My Little Eye: Intention Reading; 4. Squares, Games, and Cups: Categorization; 5. Drunk Octopus Wants to Fight: Pattern Recognition; 6. Fill-in-the-Blank: Analogy; 7. A Bridge to New Ideas: Metaphor; 8. E Pluribus Unum: Chunking; 9. Better Together: Cooperation; 10. Practice Makes Perfect: Entrenchment; 11. One Thing Leads to Another: Association; 12. Things Left Unsaid: Statistical Preemption; 13. Two Beers, Please: Coercion; 14. Different Branches on the Same Tree: Multiple Inheritance; 15. There's No Going Back:Ggrammaticalization; 16. Revisiting the Forest; References; Index.