| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 395 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in corpus linguistics, 1388-0373 ; volume 100 |
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Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 100.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Corpora, Constructions, New Englishes -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- List of abbreviations -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Scope and objectives -- 1.3 Theoretical and methodological framework -- 1.4 Research questions -- 1.5 Outline of the book -- 2. The World Englishes paradigm and New Englishes -- 2.1 The field of World Englishes -- 2.1.1 Babel undone: English as a global language -- 2.1.2 Kachru's Three Concentric Circles model -- 2.1.3 The Kachruvian legacy: tenets of the World Englishes paradigm -- 2.2 New Englishes: from unity to diversity -- 2.2.1 Defining characteristics of New Englishes -- 2.2.2 Schneider's Dynamic Model of the evolution of postcolonial Englishes -- 2.3 The sociolinguistic profiles of Hong Kong, Indian and Singapore English -- 2.3.1 Hong Kong English -- 2.3.2 Indian English -- 2.3.3 Singapore English -- 2.3.4 The varieties' sociolinguistic profiles: a bird's eye perspective -- 2.4 Conclusion -- 3. Structural nativization in New Englishes -- 3.1 Structural nativization: Structural and conceptual considerations -- 3.1.1 'Feature', 'innovation', 'deviation': A terminological maze -- 3.1.2 The structural dimension of features -- 3.1.3 The conceptual dimension of features -- 3.1.3.1 A narrow vs. broad approach to features -- 3.1.3.2 Conceptual stance: A broad approach to features -- 3.1.4 Summing up: A definition of 'feature' -- 3.2 Structural nativization at the lexis-grammar interface: State-of-the-art -- 3.2.1 Why lexico-grammar? -- 3.2.2 Lexico-grammatical features across levels of abstraction -- 3.2.2.1 High level of abstraction -- 3.2.2.2 Intermediate level of abstraction -- 3.2.2.3 Low level of abstraction -- 3.2.2.4 Verb patterning: A bird's eye perspective |
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3.2.3 Structural nativization and Schneider's Dynamic Model -- 3.2.3.1 The Dynamic Model to the test -- 3.2.3.2 The Dynamic Model with a twist: A Construction Grammar account -- 3.2.4 Summing up: The bigger picture -- 4. Construction Grammar meets Corpus Pattern Analysis -- 4.1 Construction Grammar -- 4.1.1 The essentials of Construction Grammar -- 4.1.1.1 Motivating Construction Grammar: On the origins of the species -- 4.1.1.2 The cognitive bedrock of Construction Grammar -- 4.1.1.3 Constructions and the constructicon -- 4.1.2 Argument Structure Constructions, verbs, and Lexically-Bound Constructions -- 4.1.2.1 Goldberg's account of argument structure: A phrasal perspective -- 4.1.2.2 Lexicalist perspectives in Construction Grammar -- 4.1.3 Construction Grammar and Corpus Linguistics: Two sides of the same coin -- 4.2 The Theory of Norms and Exploitations and Corpus Pattern Analysis -- 4.2.1 Theory of Norms and Exploitations: Theoretical premises -- 4.2.1.1 Meaning as a contextualized event -- 4.2.1.2 Meaning potential and meaning components -- 4.2.1.3 Selectional preferences: Meaning as probabilistic and prototypical -- 4.2.1.3.1 Lexical sets and semantic types -- 4.2.1.3.2 Contextual roles -- Anchor 109 -- 4.2.1.3.3 Semantic type coercion -- 4.2.1.4 The linguistic double helix: Two sets of rules for norms and exploitations -- 4.2.1.5 Particulars of verbal meaning patterns -- 4.2.2 The method: Corpus Pattern Analysis -- Anchor 114 -- 4.2.2.1 The apparatus -- 4.2.2.2 The procedure -- 4.3 Construction Grammar and the Theory of Norms and Exploitations compared -- 4.4 Conclusion: The best of both worlds -- 5. Data and methods -- 5.1 The International Corpus of English -- 5.2 Data preparation and extraction -- 5.2.1 Tagging and cleaning the corpora -- 5.2.2 Data extraction -- 5.3 Data annotation: Establishing constructions across levels of abstraction |
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5.3.1 What counts as an argument? -- 5.3.1.1 Noun phrase constituency -- 5.3.1.2 Argument or Adjunct? -- 5.3.2 Argument Structure Construction annotation -- 5.3.3 Establishing the Lexically-Bound Constructions of make: Adopting and adapting the CPA procedure -- 5.3.3.1 The procedure in brief -- 5.3.3.2 Valency patterns: Motivating non-canonical patterns as LBCs -- 5.3.3.3 Motivating and defining the reduced set of semantic types -- 5.3.3.4 Motivating the addition of semantic types in a data-driven fashion -- 5.3.3.5 Motivating contextual roles in valency slots -- 5.3.3.6 Motivating lexically specified items in valency slots -- 5.3.3.7 Motivating subvalency features -- 5.3.3.8 Diverging from the CPA methodology -- 5.4 Conclusion -- 6. Establishing the native norm -- 6.1 Make across Argument Structure Constructions -- 6.1.1 The distribution of make across ASCs -- 6.1.2 Developing a profile of the behavior of ASCs with make -- 6.1.2.1 The creation construction -- 6.1.2.2 The resultative construction -- 6.1.2.3 The causative construction -- Anchor 99 -- 6.1.2.4 The caused-motion construction -- 6.1.2.5 The motion construction -- 6.1.2.6 The copular construction -- 6.1.2.7 The way construction -- 6.1.2.8 The ditransitive construction -- 6.1.2.9 The verb-particle construction -- 6.1.3 Interim summary -- 6.2 The Lexically-Bound Constructions of make -- 6.2.1 Lexically-Bound Constructions by the numbers -- 6.2.2 Semantic types: Between specificity and versatility -- 6.2.3 Interim conclusion: Toward the bigger picture -- 6.3 The wood for the trees: Towards a make-constructicon of British English -- 6.3.1 Integrating the LBC and ASC levels of abstraction -- 6.3.1.1 Mapping LBCs onto ASCs -- 6.3.1.2 ASCs and LBCs: Formal relations -- 6.3.1.3 ASCs and LBCs: Semantic relations -- 6.3.2 Relations between and across ASCs |
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6.3.3 The make-constructicon: A case of constructional polysemy -- 6.4 Conclusion -- 7. The schematic to substantive patterning of make across New Englishes -- 7.1 Identifying the features of New Englishes across levels of abstraction -- 7.1.1 A frequency profile of make -- 7.1.2 High level of abstraction: The ASCs of make across varieties -- 7.1.2.1 The distribution of ASCs across varieties -- 7.1.2.2 Losing it: Argument omission in ASC realizations -- 7.1.3 Intermediate level of abstraction: The LBCs of make -- 7.1.3.1 General overview -- 7.1.3.2 Innovation: Attested features at the level of LBCs -- 7.1.3.3 Propagation: Tracking down traces of conventionalization -- 7.1.3.4 Interim discussion -- 7.1.4 Low level of abstraction: The syntactic, lexical and semantic patterning of the light verb construction -- 7.1.4.1 The syntactic profiling of the LVC -- 7.1.4.2 The lexical profiling of the LVC -- 7.1.4.3 The semantic profiling of the LVC -- 7.1.4.4 Interim summary -- 7.1.5 The bigger picture: Linguistic features and the Dynamic Model -- 7.2 The cognitive representation of New Englishes -- 7.2.1 Background -- 7.2.2 Method -- 7.2.3 Results -- 7.2.3.1 Variation in LBC realization -- 7.2.3.2 Variation in allostructional realization -- 7.2.3.3 Variation in lexical realization -- 7.2.4 Summary and discussion -- 7.3 Conclusion -- 8. General conclusion -- 8.1 Summary of the main findings -- 8.2 Contributions at the interfaces -- 8.3 Looking ahead: Avenues for further research -- References -- Appendices |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 08, 2021) |
| Subject |
Make (The English word)
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English language -- Verb.
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English language -- Syntax.
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English language -- Variation.
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Construction grammar.
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Corpora (Linguistics)
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Construction grammar
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Corpora (Linguistics)
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English language -- Syntax
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English language -- Variation
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English language -- Verb
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Make (The English word)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020057229 |
| ISBN |
9027260087 |
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9789027260086 |
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