Construction grammars : cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions /
The notion 'construction' has become indispensable in present-day linguistics and in language studies in general. This volume extends the traditional domain of Construction Grammar (CxG) in several directions, all with a cognitive basis. Addressing a number of issues (such as coercion, dis...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2005.
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Colección: | Constructional approaches to language ;
v. 3. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Construction Grammars
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- 1. The cognitive grounding of Construction Grammar
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The cognitive dimension
- 3. Present advances
- 4. Further issues
- Notes
- References
- I. Theoretical extensions
- 2. Argument realization
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Previous claims
- 3. Implicit theme
- 3.1. Implicit theme construction
- 3.2. Motivating the implicit theme construction
- 4. Omission under low discourse prominence
- 5. Obligatorily transitive single-event verbs
- 6. Ditransitives.
- 7. Explaining the tendencies
- Notes
- References
- 3. Entity and event coercion in a symbolic theory of syntax
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Coercion by construction: Nominal syntax
- 3. Argument-Structure constructions
- 4. Aspectual constructions
- 4.1. Aspectual meaning
- 4.2. Aspectual concord constructions: The Frame Adverbial construction
- 4.3. Aspectual Shift constructions: The Progressive
- 4.4. Tense constructions: The Present in French and English
- 5. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 4. Frames, profiles and constructions
- 1. Introduction.
- 1.1. About the problem: The Finnish permissive construction
- 1.2. About the framework: Why two theories?
- 2. Overview: Two CGs
- 3. Complementary problems, complementary strong points
- 4. A solution: Combining two CGs
- 5. A test case: A brief history of the Finnish permissive construction
- 6. A corollary: Syntactic structure and conceptual structure
- 7. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 5. Construction Discourse
- 1. The issue: The need for discourse study
- 2. Setting the scene: Headlines and determiners
- 3. The setting: On discourse and Construction Grammar.
- 4. Complicating action: Four claims
- 4.1. Conventionalized discourse
- 4.2. Syntax and discourse
- 4.3. Context dependency
- 4.4. Frames as genres
- 5. Frames of understanding
- 6. Discourse patterns as conventional constructions
- 7. Resolution: dp representation
- 8. Evaluation: Mother drowned baby
- 8.1. Headline
- 8.2. Family conversation
- 8.3. Interlanguage
- 8.4. On the feasibility of alternative solutions
- 9. Coda
- Notes
- References
- II. Construction Grammars
- 6. Embodied Construction Grammar in simulation-based language understanding
- 1. Overview.
- 1.1. Embodied schemas
- 1.2. A first look at constructions
- 2. A detailed analysis
- 2.1. Referring expressions
- 2.2. Predicating expressions
- 3. ECG in language understanding
- 3.1. Constructional analysis
- 3.2. Simulative inference
- 3.3. Scaling up
- 4. Concluding remarks
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- 7. Constructions in Conceptual Semantics
- Introduction
- 1. Conceptual semantics
- 2. Is there a difference between conceptual semantics and Goldberg's Construction Grammar?
- 3. Conceptual structure
- 4. Lexical linking
- 4.1. General tendencies
- 4.2. Send.