Give Constructions Across Languages

Author : Myriam Bouveret
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260154

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Give Constructions across Languages by Myriam Bouveret Pdf

This cognitive contrastive study of ten languages (Chinese, Dalabon, English, French, Spanish, Romanian, Kurdish, Khmer, Polish, Tibetan) focuses on the concept of giving from six main points of view, namely argument structure, lexical semantics and event structure, role marking in the three argument construction and in other constructions, lexicalization, grammaticalization and constructionalization of the verb from a cognitive construction grammar point of view, and central and extended meanings. It is proposed that a continuum approach to grammar and lexicon is needed in order to describe the typological and historical facts. The volume argues for a concrete and abstract transfer ‘cluster model’ involving coverage of lexical and grammatical extension or bleaching phenomena and that the semantic extensions (metaphorical and otherwise) exploit various portions of this schema. The volume is deeply anchored in the Cognitive Construction Grammar theoretical movement, and proposes analyses of constructional phenomena to illustrate a grammar to lexicon continuum, in synchrony and diachrony: language change, grammaticalization chains, constructionalization analysis, and an invariant hypothesis of giving as a basic activity in human cognition.

Author : Hans Christian Boas
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,6 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,Jan-Ola Östman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Benjamin Lyngfelt,Lars Borin,Kyoko Ohara,Tiago Timponi Torrent
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263865

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Constructicography by Benjamin Lyngfelt,Lars Borin,Kyoko Ohara,Tiago Timponi Torrent Pdf

In constructionist theory, a constructicon is an inventory of constructions making up the full set of linguistic units in a language. In applied practice, it is a set of construction descriptions – a “dictionary of constructions”. The development of constructicons in the latter sense typically means combining principles of both construction grammar and lexicography, and is probably best characterized as a blend between the two traditions. We call this blend constructicography. The present volume is a comprehensive introduction to the emerging field of constructicography. After a general introduction follow six chapters presenting constructicon projects for English, German, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Swedish, respectively, often in relation to a framenet of the language. In addition, there is a chapter addressing the interplay between linguistics and language technology in constructicon development, and a final chapter exploring the prospects for interlingual constructicography. This is the first major publication devoted to constructicon development and it should be particularly relevant for those interested in construction grammar, frame semantics, lexicography, the relation between grammar and lexicon, or linguistically informed language technology.

Author : Mirjam Fried,Jan-Ola Östman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : William Croft
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004363533

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Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology by William Croft Pdf

In Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology, William Croft presents a unified theory of linguistic form and meaning that encompasses crosslinguistic diversity, verbalization and language change.

Author : Signe Oksefjell Ebeling,Hilde Hasselgård
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443882309

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Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Verb Constructions by Signe Oksefjell Ebeling,Hilde Hasselgård Pdf

This volume sheds new light on verb constructions by exposing them to cross-linguistic analysis based on multilingual corpora. It is composed of nine studies which provide insights into various aspects of cross-linguistic diversity, including showing that seemingly equivalent verb constructions may differ in their semantics, and that similar meanings may be expressed by different types of constructions. In other words, this book shows that different languages have different ways of lexicalising verb-based meanings, most notably by means of other, divergent verb constructions. A range of lexicogrammatical aspects of verb constructions are explored throughout the book, including time reference; modality; voice; light verb constructions; non-finite complementation of lexical verbs; posture-verb constructions; semiperiphrastic constructions; and the construction and semantic composition of verbs of putting. All of the contributions consider English in comparison with at least one of the following languages: Czech, German, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish. As such, this volume offers a truly multilingual perspective on verb constructions. The diversity of comparisons also highlights the multi-faceted nature of the verb phrase, which seems to have virtually limitless potential for exploration in the fields of tense, aspect, modality, lexical semantics, syntax, and phraseology.

Author : John Newman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3110148943

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Give by John Newman Pdf

Author : John Newman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229335

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The Linguistics of Giving by John Newman Pdf

In this collection of papers twelve linguists explore a range of interesting properties of 'give' verbs. The volume offers an in-depth look at many morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties of 'give' verbs, including both literal and figurative senses, across languages. Topics include: an apparent zero-morpheme realisation of 'give' in a Papuan language; noun plus causative-like suffix expressing the 'give' concept in Nahuatl; 'give' and other ditransitive constructions in Zulu; the complex verbal morphologies associated with 'give' verbs in Chipewyan, Cora, and Sochiapan Chinantec; the elaborate classificatory system found with 'give' verbs in Chipewyan and Cora; 'give', 'have' and 'take' constructions in Slavic languages; the expression of 'give' in American Sign Language; the origin of the German es gibt construction; the extension of 'give' to an adverbial marker in Thai, Khmer, and Vietnamese; the syntax and semantics of Dutch 'give'; first language acquisition of possession terms.

Author : Chiara Fedriani,Maria Napoli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110701371

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The Diachrony of Ditransitives by Chiara Fedriani,Maria Napoli Pdf

While ample studies exist on ditransitives in various languages, notably from a typological perspective, more work needs to be done on identifying the main processes and factors that trigger and constrain the changes they undergo over time. The goal of this volume is to help fill this gap by bringing together data and information on individual languages that have thus far been left out of the discussion and by expanding our knowledge of already studied linguistic traditions so as to achieve a broader diachronic description. Since one of the distinctive features of ditransitives is their synchronic variability in terms of structural alternation and alignment split, diachronic research can throw up new insights into developmental dynamics that are eminently complementary; namely, on the one hand, the emergence, development and loss of construction alternation and, on the other, the acquisition of new functions over time. The analyses offered in the book yield different and interconnected answers to the general question of how ditransitives change by drawing on different functional principles that play a role in the diachronic reorganization of this dynamic domain and by providing a number of original theoretical suggestions.

Author : Sabine De Knop,Gaëtanelle Gilquin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110458268

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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 : Myriam Bouveret,Dominique Legallois
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273307

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Constructions in French by Myriam Bouveret,Dominique Legallois Pdf

The book Constructions in French is the first collected volume to focus on French syntax from a constructionist perspective. It has been written with two kinds of readers in mind: for readers interested in the relationship between the French linguistic tradition and cognitive linguistics, and for readers who would like to examine how constructional analysis can be applied to a variety of French language phenomena. The eleven papers illustrate the insights generated by combining lexicalist and constructionist approaches, focusing on syntax as a dynamic system and using corpus data from a variety of speech genres. The contributions provide new findings about French usage trends (in linguistics and in psycholinguistics), including insights into new, nonstandard and poorly studied constructions.

Author : Hans C. Boas,Steffen Höder
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027259974

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Constructions in Contact 2 by Hans C. Boas,Steffen Höder Pdf

The last few years have seen a steadily increasing interest in constructional approaches to language contact. This volume builds on previous constructionist work, in particular Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG) and the volume Constructions in Contact (2018) and extends its methodology and insights in three major ways. First, it presents new constructional research on a wide range of language contact scenarios including Afrikaans, American Sign Language, English, French, Malayalam, Norwegian, Spanish, Welsh, as well as contact scenarios that involve typologically different languages. Second, it also addresses other types of scenarios that do not fall into the classic language contact category, such as multilingual practices and language acquisition as emerging multilingualism. Third, it aims to integrate constructionist views on language contact and multilingualism with other approaches that focus on structural, social, and cognitive aspects. The volume demonstrates that Construction Grammar is a framework particularly well suited for analyzing a wide variety of language contact phenomena from a usage-based perspective.

Author : Alessandro Duranti,Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Alessandro Duranti
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-06
Category : Anthropological linguistics
ISBN : 9780197637852

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Rethinking Politeness with Henri Bergson by Alessandro Duranti,Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Alessandro Duranti Pdf

In 1885, Henri Bergson addressed a class of French high school students on the subject of politeness. Bergson would go on to become one of the most influential philosophers of his time, yet although this essay set forth a striking theory of politeness and foreshadowed aspects of his later work, it remains remarkably little-known. Rethinking Politeness with Henri Bergson offers the first English translation of Discours sur la Politesse, and brings together leading linguistic anthropologists to critically engage with and expand on Bergson's ideas. At the core of Bergson's essay is a tripartite classification of politeness acts into politesse des manières (politeness of manners), politesse de l'esprit (politeness of mind/spirit), and politesse du coeur (politeness of the heart). Presented along a hierarchy of intersubjective attunement and ethical aspirations, Bergson's three types call for the progressive abandonment of habits when they get in the way of our ability to help others. They can also be read as an invitation to consider politeness as a dimension of human sociability that is relevant to social theory. Collectively, the essays in this volume untangle the ideological, socio-historical, and material conditions that shape notions of the ideal social agent, and propose a rethinking of politeness that serves as a bridge to larger issues of civility, citizenship, and democracy.

Author : Eva Zehentner,Melanie Röthlisberger,Timothy Colleman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027249715

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Ditransitives in Germanic Languages by Eva Zehentner,Melanie Röthlisberger,Timothy Colleman Pdf

This volume brings together twelve empirical studies on ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages and their varieties, past and present. Specifically, the volume includes contributions on a wide variety of Germanic languages, including English, Dutch, and German, but also Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian, as well as lesser-studied ones such as Faroese. While the first part of the volume focuses on diachronic aspects, the second part showcases a variety of synchronic aspects relating to ditransitive patterns. Methodologically, the volume covers both experimental and corpus-based studies. Questions addressed by the papers in the volume are, among others, issues like the cross-linguistic pervasiveness and cognitive reality of factors involved in the choice between different ditransitive constructions, or differences and similarities in the diachronic development of ditransitives. The volume’s broad scope and comparative perspective offers comprehensive insights into well-known phenomena and furthers our understanding of variation across languages of the same family.