Extending the Scope of Construction Grammar / / ed. by Ronny Boogaart, Timothy Colleman, Gijsbert Rutten.

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 cons...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , 54
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Physical Description:1 online resource (382 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Table of contents --
1. Constructions all the way everywhere: Four new directions in constructionist research --
I. Methodological advances --
2. A radically data-driven Construction Grammar: Experiments with Dutch causative constructions --
3. Automating construction work: Data-Oriented Parsing and constructivist accounts of language acquisition --
II. Construction morphology --
4. Affixoids and constructional idioms --
5. The survival and use of case morphology in Modern Dutch --
III. Constructions in variation and change --
6. Degeneracy: The maintenance of constructional networks --
7. Social and constructional diffusion: Relative clauses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch --
8. The emergence of non-canonical degree modifiers in non-standard varieties of Dutch: A constructionalization perspective --
9. Conventional combinations in pockets of productivity: English resultatives and Dutch ditransitives expressing excess --
IV. Constructions in interaction --
10. Und mit der Party, wie wollen wir das organisieren? Tying constructions with the preposition mit in German talk-in-interaction --
11. Appositions in monologue, increments in dialogue? On appositions and apposition-like patterns in spoken German and their status as constructions --
12. Constructions as resources in interaction: Syntactically unintegrated att ‘that’-clauses in spoken Swedish --
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Summary: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.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783110366273
9783110238570
9783110238457
9783110636970
9783110742961
9783110369526
9783110370270
ISSN:1861-4132 ;
DOI:10.1515/9783110366273
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Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Ronny Boogaart, Timothy Colleman, Gijsbert Rutten.