Contrastive Studies In Construction Grammar
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| Author | : Hans Christian Boas |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027204322 |
The papers in this volume provide a contrastive application of Construction Grammar. By referencing a well-described constructional phenomenon in English, each paper provides a solid foundation for describing and analyzing its constructional counterpart in another language. This approach shows that the semantic description (including discourse-pragmatic and functioanl factors) of an English construction can be regarded as a first step towards a "tertium comparationis" that can be employed for comparing and contrasting the formal properties of constructional counterparts in other languages. Thus, the meaning pole of constructions should be regarded as the primary basis for comparisons of constructions across languages - the form pole is only secondary. This volume shows that constructions are viable descriptive and analytical tools for cross-linguistic comparisons that make it possible to capture both language-specific (idiosyncratic) properties as well as cross-linguistic generalizations.
| Author | : Stefania Marzo |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027202621 |
Contrastive Linguistics, like other linguistic disciplines, is becoming more and more data-oriented, relying increasingly on the statistical analysis of corpus data to reveal and investigate the similarities and dissimilarities between languages. This title illustrates this trend with a representative sample of contrastive linguistic case studies.
| Author | : Mirjam Fried |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 215 |
| Release | : 2004-12-23 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Carmen Mellado Blanco |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2021-09-30 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9783110518498 |
Die Reihe bietet ein Forum für gebrauchs- und korpusbasierte Studien, die sprachliche, kognitive und konzeptuelle Vorgeformtheit auf allen sprachlichen Ebenen und außersprachlicher Natur in den Mittelpunkt der theoretischen und methodischen Betrachtungen im synchronen wie diachronen Schnitt rücken.
| Author | : Lars Hellan |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 486 |
| Release | : 2017-04-30 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027266093 |
In recent years, issues of verbal valency, valency alternations and verb classes have seen a new upsurge of interest from a variety of perspectives. This book comprises articles investigating valency phenomena on a contrastive basis within Romance, Germanic and Slavic, and also in Basque and in the West-African language Ga, as well as classical Greek and Sanskrit. Phenomena include transitive and ditransitive constructions and alternations, involving reflexives, cognate objects, ’null’ objects, case (in its syntagmatic and paradigmatic aspects), and infinitives, mostly in a synchronic perspective. Aiming at a closer understanding of the range of regularities falling within the concept of valency frames, the book offers a representative array of current assumptions, hypotheses, methodologies and new findings within the overall field. The volume will provide a valuable resource for researchers and students both in general linguistics and in the relevant language particular disciplines.
| Author | : Ron Kuzar |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027204349 |
Sentence Patterns in English and Hebrew offers an innovative perspective on sentential syntax, in which sentence patterns are introduced as constructions within the general framework of Construction Grammar. Drawing on naturally occurring data collected from the Internet, the study challenges the prevailing view of predication as the sole mechanism of sentence formation, and introduces the idea of patterning as a complementary, sometimes even alternative mechanism. Major sentence patterns of English and Hebrew are systematically presented, targeting both their form and their function. A contrastive analysis of the sentence patterns in these two languages results in postulating a typological group, in which cognitive motivations are shown to account for both similarities and differences within the typology. Sentence Patterns in English and Hebrew will appeal to scholars of constructional approaches, cognitive linguistics, typology, syntax, as well as anyone interested in English and Hebrew.
| Author | : Luc Steels |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Ping Ke |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 219 |
| Release | : 2018-09-20 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9811313857 |
This book serves as an introduction to contrastive linguistics - the synchronic study of two or more languages, with the aim of discovering their differences and similarities, especially the former, and applying these discoveries to related areas of language study and practice. It discusses the principles and methods, and contrasts English, Chinese, German, and other languages at phonological, lexical, grammatical, textual, and pragmatic levels, focusing more on the useful insights contrastive analysis provides into real-world problems in fields such as applied linguistics, translation and translation studies, English or Chinese as a foreign language, and communication than on the discipline itself.
| Author | : Myriam Bouveret |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2012-12-19 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027273308 |
The book Constructions in French is the first collected volume to focus on French syntax from a constructionist perspective. It has been written with two kinds of readers in mind: for readers interested in the relationship between the French linguistic tradition and cognitive linguistics, and for readers who would like to examine how constructional analysis can be applied to a variety of French language phenomena. The eleven papers illustrate the insights generated by combining lexicalist and constructionist approaches, focusing on syntax as a dynamic system and using corpus data from a variety of speech genres. The contributions provide new findings about French usage trends (in linguistics and in psycholinguistics), including insights into new, nonstandard and poorly studied constructions.
| Author | : Karin Aijmer |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 2011-06-09 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027286647 |
We have recently seen a broadening of pragmatics to new areas and to the study of more than one language. This is illustrated by the present volume on Contrastive Pragmatics which brings together a number of articles originally presented at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference in Göteborg in 2007. The contributions deal with pragmatic phenomena such as speech acts, discourse markers and modality in different language pairs using theoretical approaches such as politeness theory, Conversation Analysis, Appraisal Theory, grammaticalization and cultural textology. Also discourse practices and genres may differ across cultures as illustrated by the study of TV news shows in different countries. Contrastive pragmatics also includes the comparative study of pragmatic phenomena from a foreign language perspective, a new area with implications for language teaching and intercultural communication. The contributions to this volume were originally published in Languages in Contrast 9:1 (2009).
