
Corpora, Constructions, New Englishes
A constructional and variationist approach to verb patterning
Samantha Laporte(Author)
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 14. July 2021
Book
Hardback
395 pages
978-90-272-0850-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book takes an integrated approach to the fields of Corpus Linguistics, Construction Grammar, and World Englishes through a thorough constructional and corpus-based examination of the patterning of the versatile high-frequency verb make in British English and New Englishes. It contributes to Construction Grammar theory by adopting a verb-based, rather than construction-based, perspective on argument structure. This allows the probing of the interface between verb-independent generalizations and item-specificity from an underexplored angle that offers new insights into the shape of the constructicon. From a variationist perspective, it seeks to (i) identify features of New Englishes and gauge whether these features exhibit traces of conventionalization, and (ii) assess whether the degree of institutionalization of the New Englishes correlates with linguistic behavior, both from a social and cognitive perspective, thereby contributing to the budding effort to integrate the cognitive and social dimensions into the modeling of linguistic variation in World Englishes.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
880 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-0850-7 (9789027208507)
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Corpora, Constructions, New Englishes
A constructional and variationist approach to verb patterning
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