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Title Extending the scope of construction grammar / edited by Ronny Boogaart, Timothy Colleman, Gijsbert Rutten
Published Berlin [Germany] ; Boston [Massachusetts] : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (388 pages) : illustrations
Series Cognitive Linguistics Research, 1861-4132 ; Volume 54
Cognitive linguistics research ; Volume 54.
Contents Table of contents; 1 Constructions all the way everywhere: Four new directions in constructionist research; I Methodological advances; 2 A radically data-driven Construction Grammar: Experiments with Dutch causative constructions; 3 Automating construction work: Data-Oriented Parsing and constructivist accounts of language acquisition; II Construction morphology; 4 Affixoids and constructional idioms; 5 The survival and use of case morphology in Modern Dutch; III Constructions in variation and change; 6 Degeneracy: The maintenance of constructional networks
7 Social and constructional diffusion: Relative clauses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch8 The emergence of non-canonical degree modifiers in non-standard varieties of Dutch: A constructionalization perspective; 9 Conventional combinations in pockets of productivity: English resultatives and Dutch ditransitives expressing excess; IV Constructions in interaction; 10 Und mit der Party, wie wollen wir das organisieren? Tying constructions with the preposition mit in German talk-ininteraction
11 Appositions in monologue, increments in dialogue? On appositions and apposition-like patterns in spoken German and their status as constructions12 Constructions as resources in interaction: Syntactically unintegrated att 'that'-clauses in spoken Swedish; Index
Summary The field of constructionist linguistics is rapidly expanding, as research on a broad variety of language phenomena is increasingly informed by constructionist ideas about grammar. This volume is comprised of 11 original research articles representing several emerging new research directions in construction grammar, which, together, offer a rich picture of the various directions in which the field seems to be moving
Analysis Cognitive Linguistics
Construction Grammar
Germanic Languages
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 12, 2015)
Subject Construction grammar -- Data processing
Cognitive grammar -- Data processing
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Form Electronic book
Author Boogaart, Ronny, editor
Colleman, Timothy, editor
Rutten, Gijsbert, editor
ISBN 9783110393262
3110393263
9783110366273
3110366274