Corpora, Constructions, New Englishes : : A Constructional and Variationist Approach to Verb Patterning.

• Superior document: Studies in Corpus Linguistics Series ; v.100
• Author: Laporte, Samantha.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2021.; Ã2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Corpus Linguistics Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (419 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

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.