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Corpus, cognition and causative constructions /
English causative constructions with cause, get, have and make are often mistakenly presented as (quasi- )synonymous and more or less interchangeable. This book demonstrates the value of corpus linguistics in identifying the syntactic, semantic, lexical and stylistic features that are distinctive fo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Studies in corpus linguistics ;
v. 39. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Corpus, Cognition and Causative Constructions; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Corpus linguistics and theory; 2.1 Corpus linguistics: Theory or methodology?; 2.2 The place of theory: Bottom-up vs. top-down; 2.3 Combining corpus linguistics and cognitive linguistics; 2.4 Summary; 3. English causative constructions; 3.1 Corpus data: A semi-automatic method; 3.2 Experimental data: Elicitation test; 3.3 Combining corpus and experimental data; 3.4 Summary.
- 4. Causative constructions in action4.1 The notion of action chain; 4.2 The action chain of periphrastic causative constructions; 4.3 Action chains in the corpus data; 4.4 Action chains in the elicitation data; 4.5 Summary; 5. The syntax and semantics of causative constructions; 5.1 No (more) synonymy; 5.2 From data to database; 5.3 Individual approach: Chi-square analysis; 5.4 Global approach: Hierarchical feature selection ; 5.5 Syntactic and semantic features in the elicitation data; 5.6 Summary; 6. Defining the causative prototype; 6.1 Prototypicality in cognitive linguistics.
- 6.2 Prototypical causation6.3 Linguistic validation of the models of prototypical causation; 6.4 Cognitive validation of the models of prototypical causation; 6.5 Explaining the discrepancies; 6.6 Summary; 7. Lexical co-occurrence in causative constructions; 7.1 The co-textual approach; 7.2 Methodology; 7.3 Collocational profiles in the corpus data; 7.4 Word clusters in the corpus data; 7.5 The co-textual approach in the elicitation data; 7.6 Summary; 8. Collexemes in the effect slot; 8.1 Periphrastic causative constructions: always safe?
- 8.2 Collostructional analysis and the technique of multiple distinctive collexeme analysis8.3 Lemma-based vs. sense-based approach; 8.4 Methodology; 8.5 Results of the sense-based multiple distinctive collexeme analysis and discussion; 8.6 The effect slot in the elicitation data; 8.7 Summary; 9. The influence of register on causative constructions; 9.1 Studying variation; 9.2 Frequency according to register ; 9.3 Semantic and syntactic features in speech vs. writing; 9.4 Lexical features in speech vs. writing; 9.5 Summary; 10. Causative constructions and foreign language teaching.
- 10.1 Foreign learners: Lost in causative constructions10.2 Lost in pedagogical tools; 10.3 Grammatical unit; 10.4 Summary; 11. Conclusion; References; Appendix 1. Elicitation test; Appendix 2. Distinctive syntactic and semantic features of causative constructions; Appendix 3. Most frequent syntactic and semantic features of causative constructions; Author index; Subject index; The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics.