Corpus, Cognition and Causative Constructions

Name: Corpus, Cognition and Causative Constructions
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Erschienen am 24. März 2010

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Corpus, Cognition and Causative Constructions
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Dedication page
Table of contents
List of tables
List of figures
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Corpus linguistics and theory
2.1 Corpus linguistics: Theory or methodology?
2.2 The place of theory: Bottom-up vs. top-down
2.3 Combining corpus linguistics and cognitive linguistics
2.4 Summary
3. English causative constructions
3.1 Corpus data: A semi-automatic method
3.2 Experimental data: Elicitation test
3.3 Combining corpus and experimental data
3.4 Summary
4. Causative constructions in action
4.1 The notion of action chain
4.2 The action chain of periphrastic causative constructions
4.3 Action chains in the corpus data
4.4 Action chains in the elicitation data
4.5 Summary
5. The syntax and semantics of causative constructions
5.1 No (more) synonymy
5.2 From data to database
5.3 Individual approach: Chi-square analysis
5.4 Global approach: Hierarchical feature selection
5.5 Syntactic and semantic features in the elicitation data
5.6 Summary
6. Defining the causative prototype
6.1 Prototypicality in cognitive linguistics
6.2 Prototypical causation
6.3 Linguistic validation of the models of prototypical causation
6.4 Cognitive validation of the models of prototypical causation
6.5 Explaining the discrepancies
6.6 Summary
7. Lexical co-occurrence in causative constructions
7.1 The co-textual approach
7.2 Methodology
7.3 Collocational profiles in the corpus data
7.4 Word clusters in the corpus data
7.5 The co-textual approach in the elicitation data
7.6 Summary
8. Collexemes in the effect slot
8.1 Periphrastic causative constructions: always safe?
8.2 Collostructional analysis and the technique of multiple distinctive collexeme analysis
8.3 Lemma-based vs. sense-based approach
8.4 Methodology
8.5 Results of the sense-based multiple distinctive collexeme analysis and discussion
8.6 The effect slot in the elicitation data
8.7 Summary
9. The influence of register on causative constructions
9.1 Studying variation
9.2 Frequency according to register
9.3 Semantic and syntactic features in speech vs. writing
9.4 Lexical features in speech vs. writing
9.5 Summary
10. Causative constructions and foreign language teaching
10.1 Foreign learners: Lost in causative constructions
10.2 Lost in pedagogical tools
10.3 Grammatical unit
10.4 Summary
11. Conclusion
References
Appendix 1. Elicitation test
Appendix 2. Distinctive syntactic and semantic features of causative constructions
Appendix 3. Most frequent syntactic and semantic features of causative constructions
Author index
Subject index
The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics

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