Constructional Reorganization

Author : Jaakko Leino
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027291653

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Constructional Reorganization by Jaakko Leino Pdf

The present volume consists of several novel and different applications of the Construction Grammar framework to areas such as language change, variation, and the internal organization of grammar. The book is a collection of articles which bring together the framework of Construction Grammar and the constantly changing language system. Thereby, two main questions are addressed which are of paramount interest to linguists working with the notion of grammatical construction: Where do constructions come from? And, how are the grammatical constructions in a given language organized to form the coherent whole which we refer to as “grammar”? The book connects the latest developments in grammatical theory and Construction Grammar with empirical findings and data, language-specific research traditions, and cross-language issues. It is aimed at linguists interested in Construction Grammar, constructional approaches to grammar more generally, language variation and change, and the internal architecture of grammar.

Author : Lotte Sommerer,Elena Smirnova
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261298

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Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar by Lotte Sommerer,Elena Smirnova Pdf

This volume brings together ten contributions by leading experts who present their current usage-based research in Diachronic Construction Grammar. All papers contribute to the discussion of how to conceptualize constructional networks best and how to model changes in the constructicon, as for example node creation or loss, node-external reconfiguration of the network or in/decrease in productivity and schematicity. The authors discuss the theoretical status of allostructions, homostructions, constructional families and constructional paradigms. The terminological distinction between constructionalization and constructional change is revisited. It is shown how constructional competition but also general cognitive abilities like analogical thinking and schematization relate to the structure and reorganization of the constructional network. Most contributions focus on the nature of vertical and horizontal links. Finally, contributions to the volume also discuss how existing network models should be enriched or reconceptualized in order to integrate theoretical, psychological and neurological aspects missing so far.

Author : Hans C. Boas
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027287601

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Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar by Hans C. Boas Pdf

The papers in this volume provide a contrastive application of Construction Grammar. By referencing a well-described constructional phenomenon in English, each paper provides a solid foundation for describing and analyzing its constructional counterpart in another language. This approach shows that the semantic description (including discourse-pragmatic and functional factors) of an English construction can be regarded as a first step towards a "tertium comparationis" that can be employed for comparing and contrasting the formal properties of constructional counterparts in other languages. Thus, the meaning pole of constructions should be regarded as the primary basis for comparisons of constructions across languages – the form pole is only secondary. This volume shows that constructions are viable descriptive and analytical tools for cross-linguistic comparisons that make it possible to capture both language-specific (idiosyncratic) properties as well as cross-linguistic generalizations.

Author : Kristel Van Goethem,Muriel Norde,Evie Coussé,Gudrun Vanderbauwhede
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264350

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Category Change from a Constructional Perspective by Kristel Van Goethem,Muriel Norde,Evie Coussé,Gudrun Vanderbauwhede Pdf

Category change, broadly defined as the shift from one word class to another, is often studied as part of other changes, such as grammaticalization or lexicalization, but not in its own right. This volume offers a survey of different types of category change and their properties, e.g. abrupt versus gradual changes, morphological versus syntactic changes, or context-independent versus context-sensitive changes. The purpose of this collection of papers is to explore the concepts of linguistic category and category change from the perspective of Construction Grammar. Using data from a variety of languages, the authors address a number of themes that are central to current theorizing about category change, such as the question of whether or not categories should be considered discrete entities, how new categories arise, or whether category change can be considered as the emergence of a new construction, i.e. a new form-meaning pairing. The novel approach advanced in this volume will be of interest to historical linguists as well as to general linguists working on the nature of linguistic categories.

Author : Hans C. Boas,Francisco Gonzálvez-García
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269638

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Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar by Hans C. Boas,Francisco Gonzálvez-García Pdf

The chapters in this book show how the different flavors of Construction Grammar provide illuminating insights into the syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse-functional properties of specific phenomena in Romance languages such as (Castilian) Spanish, French, Romanian, and Latin from a synchronic as well as a diachronic viewpoint. The phenomena surveyed include the role of constructional meanings in novel verb-noun compounds in Spanish, the relevance of lexicalization for a constructionist analysis of complex prepositions in French, the complementariness of fragments, patterns and constructions as theoretical and explanatory constructs in verb complementation in French, Latin, and Spanish, non-constituent coordination phenomena (e.g. Right Node Raising, Argument Cluster Coordination and Gapping) in Romanian, and variable type framing in Spanish constructions of directed motion in the light of Leonard Talmy’s (2000) typological differences of lexicalization between satellite-framed and verb-framed languages.

Author : Annalisa Baicchi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031466021

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Constructional and Cognitive Explorations of Contrastive Linguistics by Annalisa Baicchi Pdf

Author : Martin Hilpert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107310865

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Constructional Change in English by Martin Hilpert Pdf

Martin Hilpert combines construction grammar and advanced corpus-based methodology into a new way of studying language change. Constructions are generalizations over remembered exemplars of language use. These exemplars are stored with all their formal and functional properties, yielding constructional generalizations that contain many parameters of variation. Over time, as patterns of language use are changing, the generalizations are changing with them. This book illustrates the workings of constructional change with three corpus-based studies that reveal patterns of change at several levels of linguistic structure, ranging from allomorphy to word formation and to syntax. Taken together, the results strongly motivate the use of construction grammar in research on diachronic language change. This new perspective has wide-ranging consequences for the way historical linguists think about language change. It will be of particular interest to linguists working on morpho-syntax, sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics.

Author : Jóhanna Barðdal,Elena Smirnova,Lotte Sommerer,Spike Gildea
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268617

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Diachronic Construction Grammar by Jóhanna Barðdal,Elena Smirnova,Lotte Sommerer,Spike Gildea Pdf

Construction Grammar as a framework offers a new perspective on traditional historical questions in diachronic linguistics and language change: how do new constructions arise, how should competition in diachronic variation be accounted for, how do constructions fall into disuse, and how do constructions change in general, formally and/or semantically, and with what implications for the language system as a whole? This volume offers a broad introduction to the confluence of Construction Grammar and historical syntax, and also detailed case studies of various instances of syntactic change modeled within Construction Grammar. The volume demonstrates that Construction Grammar as a theory is particularly well suited for modeling historical changes in morphosyntax, and it also documents challenging new phenomena that require a theoretical account within any competing framework of syntactic change.

Author : Thomas Hoffmann,Graeme Trousdale
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199376636

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The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar by Thomas Hoffmann,Graeme Trousdale Pdf

The last decade has seen a rise in popularity in construction-based approaches to grammar. The various approaches within the rubric 'construction grammar' all see language as a network of constructions-pairings of form and meaning. Construction Grammar, as a kind of cognitive linguistics, differs significantly from mainstream generative grammar as espoused by Chomsky and his followers. Advocates of Construction Grammar see it as a psychologically plausible theory of human language. As such, it is capable of providing a principled account of language acquisition, language variation and language change. Research in Construction Grammar also includes multidisciplinary cognitive studies in psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and computational linguistics. The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar is the first authoritative reference work solely dedicated to Construction Grammar. Divided into five sections, the book will be an invaluable resource that students and scholars alike can turn to for a comprehensive account of current work on Construction Grammar, its theoretical foundations, and its applications to and relationship with other kinds of linguistic enquiry.

Author : Ronny Boogaart,Timothy Colleman,Gijsbert Rutten
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110366273

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Extending the Scope of Construction Grammar by Ronny Boogaart,Timothy Colleman,Gijsbert Rutten Pdf

The field of constructionist linguistics is rapidly expanding, as research on a broad variety of language phenomena is increasingly informed by constructionist ideas about grammar. This volume is comprised of 11 original research articles representing several emerging new research directions in construction grammar, which, together, offer a rich picture of the various directions in which the field seems to be moving.

Author : Luc Steels
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027204332

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Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar by Luc Steels Pdf

Construction Grammar is enthusiastically embraced by a growing group of linguists who find it a natural way to formulate their analyses. But so far there is no widespread formalization of construction grammar with a solid computational implementation. Fluid Construction Grammar attempts to fill this gap. It is a fully operational computational framework capturing many key concepts in construction grammar. The present book is the first extensive publication describing this framework. In addition to general introductions, it gives a number of concrete examples through a series of linguistically challenging case studies, including phrase structure, case grammar, and modality. The book is suited both for linguists who want to know what Fluid Construction Grammar looks like and for computational linguists who may want to use this computational framework for their own experiments or applications.

Author : Carmen García Navarro
Publisher : Universidad Almería
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Odisea nº 17 by Carmen García Navarro Pdf

Revista de Estudios Ingleses es un anuario dirigido y gestionado por miembros del Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana de la Universidad de Almería con el propósito de ofrecer un foro de intercambio de producción científica en campos del conocimiento tan diversos como la lengua inglesa, literatura en lengua inglesa, didáctica del inglés, traducción, inglés para fines específicos y otros igualmente vinculados a los estudios ingleses.

Author : Nicholas Evans,Honoré Watanabe
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266545

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Insubordination by Nicholas Evans,Honoré Watanabe Pdf

The phenomenon of insubordination can be defined diachronically as the recruitment of main clause structures from subordinate structures, or synchronically as the independent use of constructions exhibiting characteristics of subordinate clauses. Long marginalised as uncomfortable exceptions, insubordinated clause phenomena turn out to be surprisingly widespread, and provide a vital empirical testing ground for various central theoretical issues in current linguistics – the interplay of langue and parole, the emergence of structure, the question of where productive syntactic rules give way to constructions, the role of prosody in language change, and the question of how far grammars are produced by isolated speakers as opposed to being collaboratively constructed in dialogue. This volume – the first book-length treatment on the topic – assembles studies of languages on all continents, by scholars who bring a range of approaches to bear on the topic, from historical linguistics to corpus studies to typology to conversational analysis.

Author : Mario Brdar,Milena Žic Fuchs,Ida Raffaelli
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443842860

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Cognitive Linguistics between Universality and Variation by Mario Brdar,Milena Žic Fuchs,Ida Raffaelli Pdf

“This volume takes up the challenge of assessing the present state of Cognitive Linguistics on the cutting edge between universality and variability. Claims of universality have never been explicitly articulated by cognitive linguists but studies on embodiment, motivation and cognitive processes such as metaphor, metonymy, and conceptual integration rely on general cognitive abilities and hence tacitly assume cross-linguistic commonalities. Variability within a language and across languages has received growing attention, especially in contrastive and corpus-based studies. Both perspectives are given ample space in the articles collected in the volume. “The present volume is the first to address the important issue of the position of Cognitive Linguistics between the poles of universality and variability. The editors’ insightful introduction draws compelling awareness to this as a yet unresolved question. At the same time, the fine contributions collected in the volume reflect state-of-the-art research in Cognitive Linguistics and point to innovative avenues for future research. The interdisciplinary range of subject areas, the new approaches pursued and the various methodologies employed makes this volume particularly valuable. It should be of great interest to scholars working in the fields of Cognitive Linguistics and in specific languages, particularly English and Slavic linguistics.” – Günter Radden, University of Hamburg

Author : Tor A. Åfarli,Brit Maehlum
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270511

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The Sociolinguistics of Grammar by Tor A. Åfarli,Brit Maehlum Pdf

The aim of this book is to investigate and attain new insights on how and to what extent the wider sociolinguistic context of language use and contact impinges on formal grammatical structures. The papers contained in the book approach this important problem from various points of view by focusing on language evolution and change, on multilingualism, language mixing and dialect variation, on spoken language, and on creole languages. Given the theoretical perspectives, methodological focus, and analyses, the book will be of interest to theoretical linguists as well as sociolinguists, from undergraduate students to researchers.