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Corpora, constructions, new Englishes : a constructional and variationist approach to verb patterning /
"This book takes an integrated approach to the fields of Corpus Linguistics, Construction Grammar and World Englishes through a thorough constructional and corpus-based examination of the patterning of the versatile high-frequency verb make in British English and New Englishes. It contributes t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Studies in corpus linguistics ;
v. 100. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Corpora, Constructions, New Englishes
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of Contents
- List of abbreviations
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Background
- 1.2 Scope and objectives
- 1.3 Theoretical and methodological framework
- 1.4 Research questions
- 1.5 Outline of the book
- 2. The World Englishes paradigm and New Englishes
- 2.1 The field of World Englishes
- 2.1.1 Babel undone: English as a global language
- 2.1.2 Kachru's Three Concentric Circles model
- 2.1.3 The Kachruvian legacy: tenets of the World Englishes paradigm
- 2.2 New Englishes: from unity to diversity
- 2.2.1 Defining characteristics of New Englishes
- 2.2.2 Schneider's Dynamic Model of the evolution of postcolonial Englishes
- 2.3 The sociolinguistic profiles of Hong Kong, Indian and Singapore English
- 2.3.1 Hong Kong English
- 2.3.2 Indian English
- 2.3.3 Singapore English
- 2.3.4 The varieties' sociolinguistic profiles: a bird's eye perspective
- 2.4 Conclusion
- 3. Structural nativization in New Englishes
- 3.1 Structural nativization: Structural and conceptual considerations
- 3.1.1 'Feature', 'innovation', 'deviation': A terminological maze
- 3.1.2 The structural dimension of features
- 3.1.3 The conceptual dimension of features
- 3.1.3.1 A narrow vs. broad approach to features
- 3.1.3.2 Conceptual stance: A broad approach to features
- 3.1.4 Summing up: A definition of 'feature'
- 3.2 Structural nativization at the lexis-grammar interface: State-of-the-art
- 3.2.1 Why lexico-grammar?
- 3.2.2 Lexico-grammatical features across levels of abstraction
- 3.2.2.1 High level of abstraction
- 3.2.2.2 Intermediate level of abstraction
- 3.2.2.3 Low level of abstraction
- 3.2.2.4 Verb patterning: A bird's eye perspective.
- 3.2.3 Structural nativization and Schneider's Dynamic Model
- 3.2.3.1 The Dynamic Model to the test
- 3.2.3.2 The Dynamic Model with a twist: A Construction Grammar account
- 3.2.4 Summing up: The bigger picture
- 4. Construction Grammar meets Corpus Pattern Analysis
- 4.1 Construction Grammar
- 4.1.1 The essentials of Construction Grammar
- 4.1.1.1 Motivating Construction Grammar: On the origins of the species
- 4.1.1.2 The cognitive bedrock of Construction Grammar
- 4.1.1.3 Constructions and the constructicon
- 4.1.2 Argument Structure Constructions, verbs, and Lexically-Bound Constructions
- 4.1.2.1 Goldberg's account of argument structure: A phrasal perspective
- 4.1.2.2 Lexicalist perspectives in Construction Grammar
- 4.1.3 Construction Grammar and Corpus Linguistics: Two sides of the same coin
- 4.2 The Theory of Norms and Exploitations and Corpus Pattern Analysis
- 4.2.1 Theory of Norms and Exploitations: Theoretical premises
- 4.2.1.1 Meaning as a contextualized event
- 4.2.1.2 Meaning potential and meaning components
- 4.2.1.3 Selectional preferences: Meaning as probabilistic and prototypical
- 4.2.1.3.1 Lexical sets and semantic types
- 4.2.1.3.2 Contextual roles
- Anchor 109
- 4.2.1.3.3 Semantic type coercion
- 4.2.1.4 The linguistic double helix: Two sets of rules for norms and exploitations
- 4.2.1.5 Particulars of verbal meaning patterns
- 4.2.2 The method: Corpus Pattern Analysis
- Anchor 114
- 4.2.2.1 The apparatus
- 4.2.2.2 The procedure
- 4.3 Construction Grammar and the Theory of Norms and Exploitations compared
- 4.4 Conclusion: The best of both worlds
- 5. Data and methods
- 5.1 The International Corpus of English
- 5.2 Data preparation and extraction
- 5.2.1 Tagging and cleaning the corpora
- 5.2.2 Data extraction
- 5.3 Data annotation: Establishing constructions across levels of abstraction.
- 5.3.1 What counts as an argument?
- 5.3.1.1 Noun phrase constituency
- 5.3.1.2 Argument or Adjunct?
- 5.3.2 Argument Structure Construction annotation
- 5.3.3 Establishing the Lexically-Bound Constructions of make: Adopting and adapting the CPA procedure
- 5.3.3.1 The procedure in brief
- 5.3.3.2 Valency patterns: Motivating non-canonical patterns as LBCs
- 5.3.3.3 Motivating and defining the reduced set of semantic types
- 5.3.3.4 Motivating the addition of semantic types in a data-driven fashion
- 5.3.3.5 Motivating contextual roles in valency slots
- 5.3.3.6 Motivating lexically specified items in valency slots
- 5.3.3.7 Motivating subvalency features
- 5.3.3.8 Diverging from the CPA methodology
- 5.4 Conclusion
- 6. Establishing the native norm
- 6.1 Make across Argument Structure Constructions
- 6.1.1 The distribution of make across ASCs
- 6.1.2 Developing a profile of the behavior of ASCs with make
- 6.1.2.1 The creation construction
- 6.1.2.2 The resultative construction
- 6.1.2.3 The causative construction
- Anchor 99
- 6.1.2.4 The caused-motion construction
- 6.1.2.5 The motion construction
- 6.1.2.6 The copular construction
- 6.1.2.7 The way construction
- 6.1.2.8 The ditransitive construction
- 6.1.2.9 The verb-particle construction
- 6.1.3 Interim summary
- 6.2 The Lexically-Bound Constructions of make
- 6.2.1 Lexically-Bound Constructions by the numbers
- 6.2.2 Semantic types: Between specificity and versatility
- 6.2.3 Interim conclusion: Toward the bigger picture
- 6.3 The wood for the trees: Towards a make-constructicon of British English
- 6.3.1 Integrating the LBC and ASC levels of abstraction
- 6.3.1.1 Mapping LBCs onto ASCs
- 6.3.1.2 ASCs and LBCs: Formal relations
- 6.3.1.3 ASCs and LBCs: Semantic relations
- 6.3.2 Relations between and across ASCs.
- 6.3.3 The make-constructicon: A case of constructional polysemy
- 6.4 Conclusion
- 7. The schematic to substantive patterning of make across New Englishes
- 7.1 Identifying the features of New Englishes across levels of abstraction
- 7.1.1 A frequency profile of make
- 7.1.2 High level of abstraction: The ASCs of make across varieties
- 7.1.2.1 The distribution of ASCs across varieties
- 7.1.2.2 Losing it: Argument omission in ASC realizations
- 7.1.3 Intermediate level of abstraction: The LBCs of make
- 7.1.3.1 General overview
- 7.1.3.2 Innovation: Attested features at the level of LBCs
- 7.1.3.3 Propagation: Tracking down traces of conventionalization
- 7.1.3.4 Interim discussion
- 7.1.4 Low level of abstraction: The syntactic, lexical and semantic patterning of the light verb construction
- 7.1.4.1 The syntactic profiling of the LVC
- 7.1.4.2 The lexical profiling of the LVC
- 7.1.4.3 The semantic profiling of the LVC
- 7.1.4.4 Interim summary
- 7.1.5 The bigger picture: Linguistic features and the Dynamic Model
- 7.2 The cognitive representation of New Englishes
- 7.2.1 Background
- 7.2.2 Method
- 7.2.3 Results
- 7.2.3.1 Variation in LBC realization
- 7.2.3.2 Variation in allostructional realization
- 7.2.3.3 Variation in lexical realization
- 7.2.4 Summary and discussion
- 7.3 Conclusion
- 8. General conclusion
- 8.1 Summary of the main findings
- 8.2 Contributions at the interfaces
- 8.3 Looking ahead: Avenues for further research
- References
- Appendices.