Converging Evidence

Name: Converging Evidence | Methodological and theoretical issues for linguistic research
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Methodological and theoretical issues for linguistic research

Doris Schönefeld(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 30. November 2011

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Intro
Table of contents
Contributors
Introduction
1. Introduction
2. The potential of evidence to converge
3. Introspective evidence
3.1 Introspective evidence - the (sole) source of insight in Generative Linguistics
3.2 Generative Linguistics in more recent times - broadening the methodological spectrum
4. Empirical evidence
4.1 Empirical evidence - evidence naturally employed within Cognitive Linguistics
4.2 Empirical evidence - an essential characteristic of corpus linguistics
4.3 Empirical evidence - towards a truly usage-based approach in cognitive linguistics
5. Data in linguistic research - a summary and overview
6. Conclusion to the discussion
6.1 Why evidence is needed to converge
6.2 Converging evidence in practice
7. The contributions to this volume
7.1 Part 1: Multi-methodological approaches to constructional and idiomatic meaning
7.2 Part 2: Multi-methodological approaches to language acquisition
7.3 Part 3: Multi-methodological approaches to the study of discourse
8. Convergence of evidence: Prospects for future research
References
Issues in collecting converging evidence
1. Introduction
2. Metaphor in symbolic structure and practice versus in cognitive process and product
3. Phenomenological pluralism
4. Methodological pluralism
5. Conclusion
References
Multi-methodological approaches to constructional and idiomatic meaning
Perception and conception
1. Introduction
2. Bolinger's thesis
3. Noël's criticism of Bolinger
4. The 'see x to be y' construction revisited
5. Goal as targeted alternative: The semantics of the to-infinitive
6. Conclusion
References
Corpora:
Secondary:
Explaining diverging evidence
1. Introduction
2. Syntactic evidence
3. Cognitive-functional evidence
4. Prosodic evidence
4.1 That omission
4.2 That insertion
5. Explaining diverging evidence
5.1 Relating syntactic structure and use
5.2 Reassessing the role of that
6. Conclusion
References
I am about to die vs. I am going to die
1. Introduction: Aims and methods
2. The state of the art: Consulting the grammar(ian)s
3. Historical motivation
4. Conceptual motivation
5. Measuring the difference: A corpus-based comparison of be about to V and be going to V
5.1 Raw frequency
5.2 Collexeme analysis
5.3 Distinctive collexeme analysis
5.3.1 Semantic classes
5.4 I am just about to finish: Temporal adverbials in the constructions
6. Summary and discussion
References
Studying syntactic priming in corpora
1. Introduction
2. Data and methods
3. Results
3.1 Coarse granularity: Constructional frequencies
3.2 Intermediate granularity: Binary logistic regression
3.3 High granularity: Generalized linear mixed-effects model
4. Concluding remarks
References
Islands of (im)productivity in corpus data and acceptability judgments
1. Introduction
2. Corpus evidence
2.1 A morphological potentiality construction: V-baar
2.2 A syntactic potentiality construction: is te V
2.3 Distinctive collexeme analysis
3. Experiment
3.1 Method
3.2 Results
3.3 Summary and analysis
4. Conclusion
References
Compositional and embodied meanings of somatisms
1. Introduction
2. Towards a definition of somatisms
3. Introspective and corpus-based investigations of phraseologisms
4. Analyzing the meaning of somatisms: A corpus-based perspective
4.1 Corpus data
4.2 Analysis
5. Embodied meaning: The meaning potential of somatic constituents
6. Degrees of (de-) compositionality
7. Conclusions
References
Word-formation patterns in a cross-linguistic perspective
1. Introduction
2. Experiment
2.1 Participants
2.2 Materials
2.3 Procedure
2.4 Results
2.5 German data
2.6 Hungarian data
2.7 Language comparison summary
2.8 Compound type
3 Picture effects
3.1 Word formation preferences across semantic domains
3.2 Shape images
3.3 The "Other" category
3.4 Versatility across languages
3.5 Creativity
4 Conclusion
References
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Multi-methodological approaches to language acquisition
The interaction of function and input frequency in L1-acquisition
1. Introduction
1.1 Theoretical background
1.2 Aim of the study
1.2 The role of converging evidence
2. Method
2.1 Corpus
2.2 Target structure
3. Results
3.1 Input frequency and order of acquisition
3.2 Why does Leo produce only 'was ist das für...' questions in the beginning?
3.3 Why does Leo produce so few 'was ist das für eine...' Questions?
3.4 Why does Leo never produce 'was ist das für eine Farbe?'
4. Discussion
References
Relative clause acquisition and representation
1. Introduction
2. Subject and object relatives in spoken corpora
3. Sentence repetition
4. Referential selection
5. Discussion
References
Converging evidence in the typology of motion events
1. Introduction
2. Method and procedure
2.1 The corpora
2.2 Motion verbs and verb categories
3. Analysis and results
3.1 Verb types
3.2 Verb tokens
3.3 Path descriptions
4. Summary
5. Discussion
References
Corpora
Appendix
Multi-methodological approaches to the study of discourse
Differences in the use of emotion metaphors in expert-lay communication
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
2.1 Experts vs. Laypersons
2.2 Metaphor analysis
3. Study 1: Performance data
3.1 Corpus
3.2 Results
3.3 Discussion
4. Study 2: Elicited data
4.1 Corpus
4.2 Results
4.3 Discussion
5. Bringing together both studies: Summary and conclusion
References
Appendix

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