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Constructions across Grammars

Constructions across Grammars
Author: Martin Hilpert
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2016-03-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027267081

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Up to now, most research in Construction Grammar has focused on single languages, most notably English. This volume aims to broaden the scope of Construction Grammar towards issues in bi- and multilingualism, second language learning, and generalizations across different languages and language varieties. The contributions in this volume show that speakers entertain generalizations across their repertoire of languages, which holds important implications for a multilingual Construction Grammar. Originally published in Constructions and Frames 6:2 (2014).


Construction Grammar in a Cross-language Perspective

Construction Grammar in a Cross-language Perspective
Author: Mirjam Fried
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027218223

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This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from the early 1980's by Charles J. Fillmore and his associates. It also provides a succinct account of the historical and intellectual background of the model and shows how Construction Grammar can easily be applied to typologically very different languages and to a variety of language-specific phenomena. All of the contributors to the volume came out of the Fillmorean school at UC-Berkeley and have worked consistently on applying and further developing the model in various domains of linguistic analysis.The 'Thumbnail sketch' by Fried & Östman is the only extensive introduction published so far to Fillmorean Construction Grammar.


Construction Grammar and its Application to English

Construction Grammar and its Application to English
Author: Martin Hilpert
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2014-03-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0748675868

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Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as knowledge of constructions, which are defined as symbolic units that connect a linguistic form with meaning.


Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar

Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar
Author: Hans Christian Boas
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027204322

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The papers in this volume provide a contrastive application of Construction Grammar. By referencing a well-described constructional phenomenon in English, each paper provides a solid foundation for describing and analyzing its constructional counterpart in another language. This approach shows that the semantic description (including discourse-pragmatic and functioanl factors) of an English construction can be regarded as a first step towards a "tertium comparationis" that can be employed for comparing and contrasting the formal properties of constructional counterparts in other languages. Thus, the meaning pole of constructions should be regarded as the primary basis for comparisons of constructions across languages - the form pole is only secondary. This volume shows that constructions are viable descriptive and analytical tools for cross-linguistic comparisons that make it possible to capture both language-specific (idiosyncratic) properties as well as cross-linguistic generalizations.


Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective

Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective
Author: Mirjam Fried
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2004-12-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027294968

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This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from the early 1980’s by Charles J. Fillmore and his associates. It also provides a succinct account of the historical and intellectual background of the model and shows how Construction Grammar can easily be applied to typologically very different languages and to a variety of language-specific phenomena. All of the contributors to the volume came out of the Fillmorean school at UC-Berkeley and have worked consistently on applying and further developing the model in various domains of linguistic analysis.The 'Thumbnail sketch' by Fried & Östman is the only extensive introduction published so far to Fillmorean Construction Grammar.


Construction Grammars

Construction Grammars
Author: Jan-Ola Östman
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027218230

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Addressing a number of issues (such as coercion, discourse patterning, language change), the contributions show how CxG must be part and parcel of cognitively oriented studies of language, including language universals."--Jacket.


Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology

Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology
Author: William Croft
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2020-09-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 900436353X

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In Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology, William Croft presents a unified theory of linguistic form and meaning that encompasses crosslinguistic diversity, verbalization and language change.


The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar

The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar
Author: Thomas Hoffmann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2013-04-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0195396685

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The last decade has seen a rise in popularity in construction-based approaches to grammar. The various approaches within the rubric 'construction grammar' all see language as a network of constructions-pairings of form and meaning. Construction Grammar, as a kind of cognitive linguistics, differs significantly from mainstream generative grammar as espoused by Chomsky and his followers. Advocates of Construction Grammar see it as a psychologically plausible theory of human language. As such, it is capable of providing a principled account of language acquisition, language variation and language change. Research in Construction Grammar also includes multidisciplinary cognitive studies in psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and computational linguistics. The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar is the first authoritative reference work solely dedicated to Construction Grammar. Divided into five sections, the book will be an invaluable resource that students and scholars alike can turn to for a comprehensive account of current work on Construction Grammar, its theoretical foundations, and its applications to and relationship with other kinds of linguistic enquiry.


Give Constructions across Languages

Give Constructions across Languages
Author: Myriam Bouveret
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-03-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902726015X

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This cognitive contrastive study of ten languages (Chinese, Dalabon, English, French, Spanish, Romanian, Kurdish, Khmer, Polish, Tibetan) focuses on the concept of giving from six main points of view, namely argument structure, lexical semantics and event structure, role marking in the three argument construction and in other constructions, lexicalization, grammaticalization and constructionalization of the verb from a cognitive construction grammar point of view, and central and extended meanings. It is proposed that a continuum approach to grammar and lexicon is needed in order to describe the typological and historical facts. The volume argues for a concrete and abstract transfer ‘cluster model’ involving coverage of lexical and grammatical extension or bleaching phenomena and that the semantic extensions (metaphorical and otherwise) exploit various portions of this schema. The volume is deeply anchored in the Cognitive Construction Grammar theoretical movement, and proposes analyses of constructional phenomena to illustrate a grammar to lexicon continuum, in synchrony and diachrony: language change, grammaticalization chains, constructionalization analysis, and an invariant hypothesis of giving as a basic activity in human cognition.


The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics
Author: Barbara Dancygier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1427
Release: 2017-06-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108146139

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The best survey of cognitive linguistics available, this Handbook provides a thorough explanation of its rich methodology, key results, and interdisciplinary context. With in-depth coverage of the research questions, basic concepts, and various theoretical approaches, the Handbook addresses newly emerging subfields and shows their contribution to the discipline. The Handbook introduces fields of study that have become central to cognitive linguistics, such as conceptual mappings and construction grammar. It explains all the main areas of linguistic analysis traditionally expected in a full linguistics framework, and includes fields of study such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics, diachronic studies, and corpus linguistics. Setting linguistic facts within the context of many other disciplines, the Handbook will be welcomed by researchers and students in a broad range of disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, gesture studies, computational linguistics, and multimodal studies.