Construction grammars : cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions /

Construction grammars : cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions /

The notion 'construction' has become indispensable in present-day linguistics and in language studies in general. This volume extends the traditional domain of Construction Grammar (CxG) in several directions, all with a cognitive basis. Addressing a number of issues (such as coercion, dis...

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Other Authors: Östman, Jan-Ola, Fried, Mirjam
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2005.
Series:Constructional approaches to language ; v. 3.
Subjects:
Construction grammar.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Construction Grammars
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • 1. The cognitive grounding of Construction Grammar
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The cognitive dimension
  • 3. Present advances
  • 4. Further issues
  • Notes
  • References
  • I. Theoretical extensions
  • 2. Argument realization
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Previous claims
  • 3. Implicit theme
  • 3.1. Implicit theme construction
  • 3.2. Motivating the implicit theme construction
  • 4. Omission under low discourse prominence
  • 5. Obligatorily transitive single-event verbs
  • 6. Ditransitives.
  • 7. Explaining the tendencies
  • Notes
  • References
  • 3. Entity and event coercion in a symbolic theory of syntax
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Coercion by construction: Nominal syntax
  • 3. Argument-Structure constructions
  • 4. Aspectual constructions
  • 4.1. Aspectual meaning
  • 4.2. Aspectual concord constructions: The Frame Adverbial construction
  • 4.3. Aspectual Shift constructions: The Progressive
  • 4.4. Tense constructions: The Present in French and English
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 4. Frames, profiles and constructions
  • 1. Introduction.
  • 1.1. About the problem: The Finnish permissive construction
  • 1.2. About the framework: Why two theories?
  • 2. Overview: Two CGs
  • 3. Complementary problems, complementary strong points
  • 4. A solution: Combining two CGs
  • 5. A test case: A brief history of the Finnish permissive construction
  • 6. A corollary: Syntactic structure and conceptual structure
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 5. Construction Discourse
  • 1. The issue: The need for discourse study
  • 2. Setting the scene: Headlines and determiners
  • 3. The setting: On discourse and Construction Grammar.
  • 4. Complicating action: Four claims
  • 4.1. Conventionalized discourse
  • 4.2. Syntax and discourse
  • 4.3. Context dependency
  • 4.4. Frames as genres
  • 5. Frames of understanding
  • 6. Discourse patterns as conventional constructions
  • 7. Resolution: dp representation
  • 8. Evaluation: Mother drowned baby
  • 8.1. Headline
  • 8.2. Family conversation
  • 8.3. Interlanguage
  • 8.4. On the feasibility of alternative solutions
  • 9. Coda
  • Notes
  • References
  • II. Construction Grammars
  • 6. Embodied Construction Grammar in simulation-based language understanding
  • 1. Overview.
  • 1.1. Embodied schemas
  • 1.2. A first look at constructions
  • 2. A detailed analysis
  • 2.1. Referring expressions
  • 2.2. Predicating expressions
  • 3. ECG in language understanding
  • 3.1. Constructional analysis
  • 3.2. Simulative inference
  • 3.3. Scaling up
  • 4. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • 7. Constructions in Conceptual Semantics
  • Introduction
  • 1. Conceptual semantics
  • 2. Is there a difference between conceptual semantics and Goldberg's Construction Grammar?
  • 3. Conceptual structure
  • 4. Lexical linking
  • 4.1. General tendencies
  • 4.2. Send.

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