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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.
Author | : Hans Christian Boas |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027204322 |
Download Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Martin Hilpert |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2016-03-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027267081 |
Download Constructions across Grammars Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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).
Author | : William Croft |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2020-09-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 900436353X |
Download Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : John Newman |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9783110148947 |
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Author | : Martin Hilpert |
Publisher | : Distinguished Lectures in Cogn |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2021-08-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789004446786 |
Download Ten Lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this book, Martin Hilpert lays out how Construction Grammar can be applied to the study of language change. In a series of ten lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar, the book presents the theoretical foundations, open questions, and methodological approaches that inform the constructional analysis of diachronic processes in language. The lectures address issues such as constructional networks, competition between constructions, shifts in collocational preferences, and differentiation and attraction in constructional change. The book features analyses that utilize modern corpus-linguistic methodologies and that draw on current theoretical discussions in usage-based linguistics. It is relevant for researchers and students in cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, and historical linguistics. 0Also available in Open Access.
Author | : Noam Chomsky |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2020-05-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3112316002 |
Download Syntactic Structures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Author | : Chiara Fedriani |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2020-10-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110701375 |
Download The Diachrony of Ditransitives Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
While ample studies exist on ditransitives in various languages, notably from a typological perspective, more work needs to be done on identifying the main processes and factors that trigger and constrain the changes they undergo over time. The goal of this volume is to help fill this gap by bringing together data and information on individual languages that have thus far been left out of the discussion and by expanding our knowledge of already studied linguistic traditions so as to achieve a broader diachronic description. Since one of the distinctive features of ditransitives is their synchronic variability in terms of structural alternation and alignment split, diachronic research can throw up new insights into developmental dynamics that are eminently complementary; namely, on the one hand, the emergence, development and loss of construction alternation and, on the other, the acquisition of new functions over time. The analyses offered in the book yield different and interconnected answers to the general question of how ditransitives change by drawing on different functional principles that play a role in the diachronic reorganization of this dynamic domain and by providing a number of original theoretical suggestions.
Author | : Andrej Malchukov |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 793 |
Release | : 2010-12-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110220377 |
Download Studies in Ditransitive Constructions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This rich volume deals comprehensively with cross-linguistic variation in the morphosyntax of ditransitive constructions: constructions formed with verbs (like give) that take Agent, Theme and Recipient arguments. For the first time, a broadly cross-linguistic perspective is adopted. The present volume, consisting of an overview article and twenty-odd in-depth studies of ditransitive constructions in individual languages from different continents, arose from the conference on ditransitive constructions held at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig) in 2007. It opens with the editors' survey article providing an overview of cross-linguistic variation in ditransitive constructions, followed by the questionnaire on ditransitive constructions, compiled by the editors in order to elicit various properties of these patterns. The editors' overview discusses formal properties of ditransitive constructions as well as behavioral (or syntactic) and lexical properties (i.e., the extension of ditransitive constructions across different verb classes). The volume includes 23 contributions describing properties of ditransitive constructions in languages from all over the world, written by leading experts. Care has been taken that the contributions to the volume will be representative of structural, geographic and genealogical diversity in the domain of ditransitive constructions. Thus the present volume provides a unique source of information on typological diversity of ditransitive constructions. It is expected that it will be of central interest to all scholars and advanced students of linguistics, especially to those working in the field of language typology and comparative syntax.
Author | : María J. Arche |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2019-01-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0192565427 |
Download The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume presents a crosslinguistic survey of the current theoretical debates around copular constructions from a generative perspective. Following an introduction to the main questions surrounding the analysis and categorization of copulas, the chapters address a range of key topics including the existence of more than one copular form in certain languages, the factors determining the presence or absence of a copula, and the morphology of copular forms. The team of expert contributors present new theoretical proposals regarding the formal mechanisms behind the behaviour and patterns observed in copulas in a wide range of typologically diverse languages, including Czech, French, Korean, and languages from the Dene and Bantu families. Their findings have implications beyond the study of copulas and shed more light on issues such as agreement relations, the nature of grammatical categories, and nominal predicates in syntax and semantics.