Constructional Approaches to English Grammar / / ed. by Graeme Trousdale, Nikolas Gisborne.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Aarts, Bas,; Bergs, Alexander,; Gisborne, Nikolas,; Hoffmann, Thomas,; Hudson, Richard,; Rosta, Andrew,; Schlüter, Julia,; Trousdale, Graeme,
• HerausgeberIn: Gisborne, Nikolas,; Trousdale, Graeme,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 57
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (310 p.) :; Num. figs.

This collection of articles brings together new research from both established and emerging international experts in the study of English grammar, all of whom have engaged with the notion of 'construction' in their work. The research here is concerned with both synchrony and diachrony, with the relationship between Construction Grammar and other linguistic theories, and with a number of issues in the study of grammar, such as raising and control phenomena, transitivity, relative clause structure, the syntax of gerunds, attributive and predicative uses of adjectives, modality, and grammaticalization. Some of the articles are written within a constructional framework, while others highlight potential problems with constructional approaches to English grammar; some of the articles are based on data collected from corpora, some on introspection; some of the articles suggest potential developments for diachronic construction grammar, while others seek to compare Construction Grammar with other cognitive linguistic theories, most particularly Word Grammar. The research reported in this volume presents a series of ways of looking at the relationship between constructions and patterns in English grammar, either now or in the past. The book addresses scholars and advanced students who are interested in English grammar, constructional approaches to language, and the relationship between functional and formal issues in linguistic description and theory.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Constructional approaches to language-particular -- description -- 1. The English gerund -- Gerunds, categories and constructions -- Approaches to the English gerund -- Constructions in grammaticalization and -- lexicalization: Evidence from the history of a composite predicate -- construction in English -- 2. Constructions and corpora -- Corpus approaches to constructions -- English relative clauses and Construction Grammar: -- A topic which preposition placement can shed light on? -- Shall and shan t in contemporary English – a case -- of functional condensation -- Constraints on the attributive use of -- “predicative-only” adjectives: A reassessment -- 3. Constructions and lexicalism -- Constructions and lexical approaches -- Antitransitivity and constructionality -- Dependencies are constructions: A case study in -- predicative complementation -- Word Grammar and Construction Grammar -- Backmatter