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Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective.

This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from the early 1980's by Charles J. Fillmore and his associates. It also provides a succinct account o.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fried, Mirjam (Editor ), Stman, Jan-Ola (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • 1. Historical and intellectual background of Construction Grammar
  • 1. Preamble
  • 2. A brief history of Construction Grammar
  • 3. Cross-language and universal potential of Construction Grammar
  • Notes
  • References
  • 2. Construction Grammar
  • 1. Preamble
  • 2. Main features of Construction Grammar
  • 2.1. General properties
  • 2.2. The Case Grammar connection
  • 3. Arguments for Construction Grammar
  • 4. The notion grammatical construction
  • 5. Defining Construction Grammar
  • 6. Working in Construction Grammar
  • 6.1. Notational and analytical conventions
  • 6.2. Feature structures
  • 6.3. Unification in practice
  • 6.4. Valence
  • 6.5. Linking
  • 6.6. Instantiation patterns
  • 6.7. Ordering constructions
  • 6.8. Unification and Inheritance
  • 6.9. External vs. internal properties
  • 7. Construction Grammar: Outlook
  • Notes
  • References
  • 3. Predicate semantics and event construal in Czech case marking
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The dative-experiencer pattern
  • 3. The accusative-experiencer pattern
  • 4. The accusative construction as a grammatical idiom
  • 5. Case marking and construction grammar
  • 5.1. Constructional representation of DC and AC
  • 5.2. Case marking
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • 4. Lexically (un)filled constructional schemes and construction types
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Construction types and constructional schemes
  • 2.1. Construction types
  • 2.2. Constructional schemes
  • 3. Data
  • 4. Different construction types with a shared modal function
  • 4.1. The Bi-Clausal Conditional construction
  • 4.2. The Integrated Evaluative Conditional construction
  • 4.3. From conditional constructions to the deontic modal function of 'obligation'
  • 5. The Reduced Conditional construction
  • 6. The source of the Reduced Conditional construction
  • 6.1. Possible source 1: Fixed idiomatic expressions
  • 6.2. Possible source 2: The Integrated Evaluative construction
  • 6.3. Possible source 3: The Full Bi-Clausal Conditional construction
  • 6.4. General source: The constructional scheme
  • 7. The larger view of the proposed framework
  • 7.1. Other linkers in the constructional scheme of 'obligation'
  • 7.2. Other constructional schemes
  • 8. Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • 5. On the interaction of information structure and formal structure in constructions
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Preferred-Clause construction and the R-top template
  • 3. The Right-Detached comme-N construction
  • 3.1. The RDCN construction and the R-TOP template
  • 3.2. Syntax and semantics of the RDCN construction
  • 3.3. Information structure of the RDCN construction
  • 3.4. Summary
  • 4. Theoretical implications
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • Index of constructions
  • The series Constructional Approaches to Language.