Grammatical Constructions
Back to the roots
Published on 14. December 2005
Book
Hardback
246 pages
978-90-272-1824-7 (ISBN)
Description
This volume brings into focus the conceptual roots of the notion 'grammatical construction' as the theoretical entity that constitutes the backbone of Construction Grammar, a unique grammatical model in which grammatical constructions have the status of elementary building blocks of human language. By exploring the analytic potential and applicability of this notion, the contributions illustrate some of the fundamental concerns of constructional research. These include issues of sentence structure in a model that rejects the autonomy of syntax; the contribution of Frame Semantics in establishing the relationship between syntactic patterning and the lexical meaning of verbs; and the challenge of capturing the dynamic and variable nature of grammatical structure in a systematic way. All the authors share a commitment to studying grammar in its use, which gives the book a rich empirical dimension that draws on authentic data from typologically diverse languages.
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Fresh ideas on language studies add vibrancy to theoretical linguistics. This volume is well edited and offers new ideas on language analyses to researchers and students. -- Jyh Wee Sew, National University of Singapore, in Lingvisticae Investigationes, Vol. 30:2 (2007)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-1824-7 (9789027218247)
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12/2005
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Content
1. Introduction (by Boas, Hans C.); 2. I. Syntactic patterning; 3. 1. Definite null objects in (spoken) French: A Construction-Grammar account (by Lambrecht, Knud); 4. 2. From relativization to clause-linkage: Evidence from Modern Japanese (by Ohara, Kyoko); 5. 3. Argument structure constructions and the argument-adjunct distinction (by Kay, Paul); 6. II. Syntax and semantics of verbs; 7. 4. The role of verb meaning in locative alternations (by Iwata, Seizi); 8. 5. Verbal polysemy and Frame Semantics in Construction Grammar: Some observations on the locative alternation (by Nemoto, Noriko); 9. 6. A constructional approach to mimetic verbs (by Tsujimura, Natsuko); 10. III. Language variation and change; 11. 7. Integration, grammaticization, and constructional meaning (by Langacker, Ronald W.); 12. 8. Constructions and variability (by Leino, Jaakko); 13. 9. Construction Grammar as a conceptual framework for linguistic typology: A case from reference tracking (by Ohori, Toshio); 14. Index; 15. Index of constructions