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, wit...

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