Author : Jan-Ola Östman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,89 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027218230
Addressing a number of issues (such as coercion, discourse patterning, language change), the contributions show how CxG must be part and parcel of cognitively oriented studies of language, including language universals."--Jacket.
Author : Martin Hilpert
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0748675868
Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as knowledge of constructions, which are defined as symbolic units that connect a linguistic form with meaning.
Author : Jiyoung Yoon
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027266603
This volume brings together empirical Construction Grammar studies to (i) promote cross-fertilization between researchers interested in constructional approaches on various languages, and (ii) further the growing trend towards empirically rigorous research that takes seriously a commitment not only to usage-based theories, but also to usage-based methodologies. Accordingly, the chapters in this volume comprise a range of studies not based on synchronic contemporary English but include Dutch, old English, Italian, and Spanish. This volume also features studies from a wider range of statistical sophistication: some chapters use more traditional frequency- and attestation-based approaches, some chapters use inferential statistical techniques to explore lexically specific preferences and patterns in constructional slots, and some chapters use multifactorial hypothesis-testing techniques or multivariate exploratory tools to discover patterns in corpus data that a mere eye-balling or simple statistical tools would not uncover.
Author : Thomas Hoffmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195396685
This Handbook is the first authoritative reference work solely dedicated to the theory, method, and applications of Construction Grammar, and will be a resource that students and scholars alike can turn to for a representative overview of its many sub-theories and applications.
Author : Mirjam Fried
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 19,27 MB
Release : 2004-12-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027294968
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 of the historical and intellectual background of the model and shows how Construction Grammar can easily be applied to typologically very different languages and to a variety of language-specific phenomena. All of the contributors to the volume came out of the Fillmorean school at UC-Berkeley and have worked consistently on applying and further developing the model in various domains of linguistic analysis.The 'Thumbnail sketch' by Fried & Östman is the only extensive introduction published so far to Fillmorean Construction Grammar.
Author : Sabine De Knop
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 15,52 MB
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110458268
Current research within the framework of Construction Grammar (CxG) has mainly adopted a theoretical or descriptive approach, neglecting the more applied perspective and especially the question of how language acquisition and pedagogy can benefit from a CxG-based approach. The present volume explores various aspects of “Applied Construction Grammar” through a collection of studies that apply CxG and CxG-inspired approaches to relevant issues in L2 acquisition and teaching. Relying on empirical data and covering a wide range of constructions and languages, the chapters show how the cross-fertilization of CxG and L2 acquisition/teaching can improve the description of learners’ use of constructions, provide theoretical insights into the processes underlying their acquisition (e.g. with reference to inheritance links or transfer from the L1), or lead to novel teaching practices and resources aimed to help learners make the generalizations that native speakers make naturally from the input they receive.
Author : Barbara Dancygier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1427 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108146139
The best survey of cognitive linguistics available, this Handbook provides a thorough explanation of its rich methodology, key results, and interdisciplinary context. With in-depth coverage of the research questions, basic concepts, and various theoretical approaches, the Handbook addresses newly emerging subfields and shows their contribution to the discipline. The Handbook introduces fields of study that have become central to cognitive linguistics, such as conceptual mappings and construction grammar. It explains all the main areas of linguistic analysis traditionally expected in a full linguistics framework, and includes fields of study such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics, diachronic studies, and corpus linguistics. Setting linguistic facts within the context of many other disciplines, the Handbook will be welcomed by researchers and students in a broad range of disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, gesture studies, computational linguistics, and multimodal studies.
Author : Luc Steels
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 37,82 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027204330
Construction Grammar is enthusiastically embraced by a growing group of linguists who find it a natural way to formulate their analyses. But so far there is no widespread formalization of construction grammar with a solid computational implementation. Fluid Construction Grammar attempts to fill this gap. It is a fully operational computational framework capturing many key concepts in construction grammar. The present book is the first extensive publication describing this framework. In addition to general introductions, it gives a number of concrete examples through a series of linguistically challenging case studies, including phrase structure, case grammar, and modality. The book is suited both for linguists who want to know what Fluid Construction Grammar looks like and for computational linguists who may want to use this computational framework for their own experiments or applications.
Author : William Croft
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,48 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198299547
This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but rather syntactic-semantic "Gestalts." He puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work.
Author : Ronny Boogaart
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2014-09-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110366274
The field of constructionist linguistics is rapidly expanding, as research on a broad variety of language phenomena is increasingly informed by constructionist ideas about grammar. This volume is comprised of 11 original research articles representing several emerging new research directions in construction grammar, which, together, offer a rich picture of the various directions in which the field seems to be moving.
