Argument Structure in Usage-Based Construction Grammar

Name: Argument Structure in Usage-Based Construction Grammar | Experimental and corpus-based perspectives
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Experimental and corpus-based perspectives

Florent Perek(Autor*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 23. April 2015

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Argument Structure in Usage-Based Construction Grammar
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1 Overview: Argument realization
1.2 Usage-based linguistics
1.3 Structure of the book
1.3.1 Part I: Verbs
1.3.2 Part II: Constructions
1.3.3 Part III: Alternations
Part I. Verbs
Chapter 2. Usage-based perspectives on verb valency
2.1 The verb in argument realization
2.1.1 Projectionist approaches and their limits
2.1.2 Constructional approaches
2.2 The division of labor between verbs and constructions
2.2.1 The problem of mapping form to meaning
2.2.2 The need for richer lexical knowledge
2.3 A usage-based account of verb valency
2.4 Summary
Chapter 3. Empirical evidence for usage-based valency
3.1 The hypothesis and its predictions
3.1.1 The usage-based valency hypothesis
3.1.2 Existing evidence: Verb biases in language comprehension
3.2 Assessing cognitive accessibility
3.2.1 Why these verbs?
3.2.2 Design
3.2.3 Stimuli
3.2.4 Participants and procedure
3.2.5 Results
3.3 Comparison with usage data
3.3.1 Data collection
3.3.2 Valency distributions
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3.4 Conclusion
Part II. Constructions
Chapter 4. The usage basis of constructional meaning
4.1 The lexical origin of constructional meaning
4.1.1 Constructions and constructional meaning
4.1.2 Distributional biases and their significance
4.1.3 Experimental evidence
4.1.4 Evidence from corpus linguistics: Collostructional analysis
4.1.5 Summary: The usage basis of constructional meaning
4.2 Problems with the lexical basis of constructions
4.2.1 The conative construction
Missed contact
Lack of affectedness
Lack of completion
Repetition
Lack of intentionality
4.2.2 The semantics of the conative construction
4.2.3 The conative construction in use
4.3 Conclusion
Chapter 5. The importance of local generalizations
5.1 Low-level schemas
5.1.1 Varying degrees of schematicity
5.1.2 The status of low-level schemas
5.1.3 Conclusion: The importance of local generalizations
5.2 Low-level schemas in the conative construction
5.2.1 Verb-class-specific constructions
5.2.2 Verb-class-specific collexeme analysis
Classification of verbs into semantic classes
Operationalization of verb meanings
Methods and results
Implementation of verb-class-specific collexeme analysis
5.2.3 Verbs of ingestion
5.2.4 Verbs of cutting
5.2.5 Verbs of pulling
5.2.6 Verbs of hitting
5.3 Summary and conclusion
Part III. Alternations
Chapter 6. Alternations as units of linguistic knowledge
6.1 Argument structure alternations
6.2 Alternations in construction grammar
6.3 Alternations as allostructions
6.3.1 The allostructions model
6.3.2 The dative allostructions
6.3.3 The locative allostructions
6.3.4 Experimental evidence for allostructions
6.4 Alternation-based productivity
6.5 Conclusion
Chapter 7. The usage basis of alternation based productivity
7.1 Asymmetries in alternations: An experiment
7.1.1 Goals of the experiment
7.1.2 General design and procedure
7.1.3 Stimuli
Dative verbs of physical transfer
Dative verbs of communication
Locative content-oriented verbs
Locative container-oriented verbs
7.2 Results
7.2.1 Meaning decision task
7.2.2 Sentence completion task
7.2.3 Contextual factors: A possible confound?
7.2.4 Summary
7.3 Accounting for productivity asymmetries
7.3.1 A context-based explanation
7.3.2 A usage-based explanation
7.4 Conclusion and prospects
Conclusion
Chapter 8. Summary and evaluation
8.1 Usage-based perspectives on argument realization
8.2 Theoretical and methodological implications
References
Appendix: Stimuli used in the productivity experiment (Chapter 7)
Constructions index
Name index
Subject index

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