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Converging Evidence : Methodological and theoretical issues for linguistic research.

The volume argues for the use of multi-methodological strategies in linguistic research. In its lead chapter, in addition, the thorny issue of phenomenological pluralism is explored in detail. From a usage-based perspective, the individual chapters demonstrate methodological pluralism in the investi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schönefeld, Doris
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.
Colección:Human cognitive processing ; v. 33.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Table of contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1. Introduction; 2. The potential of evidence to converge; 3. Introspective evidence; 3.1 Introspective evidence
  • the (sole) source of insight in Generative Linguistics; 3.2 Generative Linguistics in more recent times
  • broadening the methodological spectrum; 4. Empirical evidence; 4.1 Empirical evidence
  • evidence naturally employed within Cognitive Linguistics; 4.2 Empirical evidence
  • an essential characteristic of corpus linguistics; 4.3 Empirical evidence
  • towards a truly usage-based approach in cognitive linguistics.
  • 5. Data in linguistic research
  • a summary and overview6. Conclusion to the discussion; 6.1 Why evidence is needed to converge; 6.2 Converging evidence in practice; 7. The contributions to this volume; 7.1 Part 1: Multi-methodological approaches to constructional and idiomatic meaning; 7.2 Part 2: Multi-methodological approaches to language acquisition; 7.3 Part 3: Multi-methodological approaches to the study of discourse; 8. Convergence of evidence: Prospects for future research; References; Issues in collecting converging evidence; 1. Introduction.
  • 2. Metaphor in symbolic structure and practice versus in cognitive process and product3. Phenomenological pluralism; 4. Methodological pluralism; 5. Conclusion; References; Multi-methodological approaches to constructional and idiomatic meaning; Perception and conception; 1. Introduction; 2. Bolinger's thesis; 3. Noël's criticism of Bolinger; 4. The 'see x to be y' construction revisited; 5. Goal as targeted alternative: The semantics of the to-infinitive; 6. Conclusion; References; Corpora:; Secondary:; Explaining diverging evidence; 1. Introduction; 2. Syntactic evidence.
  • 3. Cognitive-functional evidence4. Prosodic evidence; 4.1 That omission; 4.2 That insertion; 5. Explaining diverging evidence; 5.1 Relating syntactic structure and use; 5.2 Reassessing the role of that; 6. Conclusion; References; Studying syntactic priming in corpora; 1. Introduction; 2. Data and methods; 3. Results; 3.1 Coarse granularity: Constructional frequencies; 3.2 Intermediate granularity: Binary logistic regression; 3.3 High granularity: Generalized linear mixed-effects model; 4. Concluding remarks; References; Islands of (im)productivity in corpus data and acceptability judgments.
  • 1. Introduction2. Corpus evidence; 2.1 A morphological potentiality construction: V-baar; 2.2 A syntactic potentiality construction: is te V; 2.3 Distinctive collexeme analysis; 3. Experiment; 3.1 Method; 3.2 Results; 3.3 Summary and analysis; 4. Conclusion; References; Compositional and embodied meanings of somatisms; 1. Introduction; 2. Towards a definition of somatisms; 3. Introspective and corpus-based investigations of phraseologisms; 4. Analyzing the meaning of somatisms: A corpus-based perspective; 4.1 Corpus data; 4.2 Analysis.