Contrastive Studies In Construction Grammar

Author : Hans Christian Boas
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027204325

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Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar by Hans Christian 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 functioanl 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 : Martin Hilpert
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748675869

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Construction Grammar and its Application to English by Martin Hilpert Pdf

Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as knowledge of constructions, which are defined as symbolic units that connect a linguistic form with meaning.

Author : Michalis Georgiafentis,Giannoula Giannoulopoulou,Maria Koliopoulou,Angeliki Tsokoglou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350079205

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Contrastive Studies in Morphology and Syntax by Michalis Georgiafentis,Giannoula Giannoulopoulou,Maria Koliopoulou,Angeliki Tsokoglou Pdf

Using different theoretical approaches and frameworks, this book addresses a broad range of themes in contrastive linguistics, including inflection, derivation and compounding, tense, wh-questions, post-verbal subjects, focus and clitics, among others. Comparing English, German, Greek, Romance, Slavic and South Pacific languages, the book highlights the significance of the contrastive perspective for language-specific description and general interface issues, casting light on contrasts between languages at the levels of morphology and syntax. In this respect, it makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of language typology and language universals.

Author : Martin Hilpert,Jan-Ola Östman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267085

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Constructions across Grammars by Martin Hilpert,Jan-Ola Östman Pdf

Up to now, most research in Construction Grammar has focused on single languages, most notably English. This volume aims to broaden the scope of Construction Grammar towards issues in bi- and multilingualism, second language learning, and generalizations across different languages and language varieties. The contributions in this volume show that speakers entertain generalizations across their repertoire of languages, which holds important implications for a multilingual Construction Grammar. Originally published in Constructions and Frames 6:2 (2014).

Author : Luc Steels,Katrien Beuls
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261892

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Case Studies in Fluid Construction Grammar by Luc Steels,Katrien Beuls Pdf

Construction grammar enjoys great popularity among empirical linguists, typologists, psycholinguists, and language educators, because it puts meaning and function of language at the forefront of linguistic analysis. This book shows that construction grammar gives us also a powerful new way to conceive and implement operational parsing and production systems, which could be used as a basic component of a wide range of Artificial Intelligence applications, such as dialog systems, language tutoring applications, or translation assistants. The book focuses on a particular formalism, Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG), that has emerged recently as a solid platform for writing and testing grammars from a constructional point of view. It introduces the basics of FCG and illustrates its use through a number of case studies all centering around the verb phrase. The case studies consider the verb phrase in different languages (Dutch, English, Spanish, Russian) and examine different challenging linguistic phenomena, ranging from word order flexibility, language change, and language acquisition, to the complex semantics of the verb phrase, particularly for aspect. The book is intended for those who want a first contact with FCG and see how different non-trivial analyses of language phenomena can be expressed. It is also an excellent first step for those who want to explore FCG to build language applications. Originally published as special issue of Constructions and Frames 9:2 (2017).

Author : Hans C. Boas,Francisco Gonzálvez-García
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Evie Coussé,Peter Andersson,Joel Olofsson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264169

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Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar by Evie Coussé,Peter Andersson,Joel Olofsson Pdf

Grammaticalization research has increasingly highlighted the notion of constructions in the last decade. In the wake of this heightened interest, efforts have been made in grammaticalization research to more precisely articulate the largely pretheoretical notion of construction in the theoretical framework of construction grammar. As such, grammaticalization research increasingly interacts and converges with the emerging field of diachronic construction grammar. This volume brings together articles that are situated at the intersection of grammaticalization research and diachronic construction grammar. All articles share an interest in integrating insights from grammaticalization research and construction grammar in order to advance our understanding of empirical cases of grammaticalization. Constructions at various levels of abstractness are investigated, both in well-documented languages, such as Ancient Greek, Latin, Spanish, German, Norwegian and English, and in less-described languages, such as Manchu and Mongolian.

Author : Thomas Hoffmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107013490

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Construction Grammar by Thomas Hoffmann Pdf

A comprehensive cognitive account of English morphology and syntax that covers topics such as language acquisition and variation and change.

Author : Annalisa Baicchi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031466021

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Constructional and Cognitive Explorations of Contrastive Linguistics by Annalisa Baicchi Pdf

Author : Mirjam Fried,Jan-Ola Östman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027218226

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Construction Grammar in a Cross-language Perspective by Mirjam Fried,Jan-Ola Östman Pdf

This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from the early 1980's by Charles J. Fillmore and his associates. It also provides a succinct account of the historical and intellectual background of the model and shows how Construction Grammar can easily be applied to typologically very different languages and to a variety of language-specific phenomena. All of the contributors to the volume came out of the Fillmorean school at UC-Berkeley and have worked consistently on applying and further developing the model in various domains of linguistic analysis.The 'Thumbnail sketch' by Fried & Östman is the only extensive introduction published so far to Fillmorean Construction Grammar.

Author : Mirjam Fried,Jan-Ola Östman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027294968

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Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective by Mirjam Fried,Jan-Ola Östman Pdf

This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from the early 1980’s by Charles J. Fillmore and his associates. It also provides a succinct account of the historical and intellectual background of the model and shows how Construction Grammar can easily be applied to typologically very different languages and to a variety of language-specific phenomena. All of the contributors to the volume came out of the Fillmorean school at UC-Berkeley and have worked consistently on applying and further developing the model in various domains of linguistic analysis.The 'Thumbnail sketch' by Fried & Östman is the only extensive introduction published so far to Fillmorean Construction Grammar.

Author : Sabine De Knop,Gaëtanelle Gilquin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110456189

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Applied Construction Grammar by Sabine De Knop,Gaëtanelle Gilquin Pdf

Current research within the framework of Construction Grammar (CxG) has mainly adopted a theoretical or descriptive approach, neglecting the more applied perspective and especially the question of how language acquisition and pedagogy can benefit from a CxG-based approach. The present volume explores various aspects of “Applied Construction Grammar” through a collection of studies that apply CxG and CxG-inspired approaches to relevant issues in L2 acquisition and teaching. Relying on empirical data and covering a wide range of constructions and languages, the chapters show how the cross-fertilization of CxG and L2 acquisition/teaching can improve the description of learners’ use of constructions, provide theoretical insights into the processes underlying their acquisition (e.g. with reference to inheritance links or transfer from the L1), or lead to novel teaching practices and resources aimed to help learners make the generalizations that native speakers make naturally from the input they receive.

Author : Stefania Marzo,Kris Heylen,Gert De Sutter
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027202628

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Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics by Stefania Marzo,Kris Heylen,Gert De Sutter Pdf

Contrastive Linguistics, like other linguistic disciplines, is becoming more and more data-oriented, relying increasingly on the statistical analysis of corpus data to reveal and investigate the similarities and dissimilarities between languages. This title illustrates this trend with a representative sample of contrastive linguistic case studies.

Author : Lars Hellan,Andrej Malchukov,Michela Cennamo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266095

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Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency by Lars Hellan,Andrej Malchukov,Michela Cennamo Pdf

In recent years, issues of verbal valency, valency alternations and verb classes have seen a new upsurge of interest from a variety of perspectives. This book comprises articles investigating valency phenomena on a contrastive basis within Romance, Germanic and Slavic, and also in Basque and in the West-African language Ga, as well as classical Greek and Sanskrit. Phenomena include transitive and ditransitive constructions and alternations, involving reflexives, cognate objects, ’null’ objects, case (in its syntagmatic and paradigmatic aspects), and infinitives, mostly in a synchronic perspective. Aiming at a closer understanding of the range of regularities falling within the concept of valency frames, the book offers a representative array of current assumptions, hypotheses, methodologies and new findings within the overall field. The volume will provide a valuable resource for researchers and students both in general linguistics and in the relevant language particular disciplines.

Author : Thomas Hoffmann,Graeme Trousdale
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195396683

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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.