Nodes And Networks In Diachronic Construction Grammar
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| Author | : Lotte Sommerer |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 363 |
| Release | : 2020-05-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027261296 |
This volume brings together ten contributions by leading experts who present their current usage-based research in Diachronic Construction Grammar. All papers contribute to the discussion of how to conceptualize constructional networks best and how to model changes in the constructicon, as for example node creation or loss, node-external reconfiguration of the network or in/decrease in productivity and schematicity. The authors discuss the theoretical status of allostructions, homostructions, constructional families and constructional paradigms. The terminological distinction between constructionalization and constructional change is revisited. It is shown how constructional competition but also general cognitive abilities like analogical thinking and schematization relate to the structure and reorganization of the constructional network. Most contributions focus on the nature of vertical and horizontal links. Finally, contributions to the volume also discuss how existing network models should be enriched or reconceptualized in order to integrate theoretical, psychological and neurological aspects missing so far.
| Author | : Jóhanna Barðdal |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2015-07-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027268614 |
Construction Grammar as a framework offers a new perspective on traditional historical questions in diachronic linguistics and language change: how do new constructions arise, how should competition in diachronic variation be accounted for, how do constructions fall into disuse, and how do constructions change in general, formally and/or semantically, and with what implications for the language system as a whole? This volume offers a broad introduction to the confluence of Construction Grammar and historical syntax, and also detailed case studies of various instances of syntactic change modeled within Construction Grammar. The volume demonstrates that Construction Grammar as a theory is particularly well suited for modeling historical changes in morphosyntax, and it also documents challenging new phenomena that require a theoretical account within any competing framework of syntactic change.
| Author | : Martin Hilpert |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2021-10-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027259003 |
This volume explores how Diachronic Construction Grammar can shed new light on changes in a central and well-researched domain of grammar, namely modality. Its main goal is to show how constructional analyses can help us address some of the long-standing questions that have informed discussions of modal expressions and their development, and to illustrate the processes that are involved in these developments on the basis of data from languages such as English, Finnish, French, Galician, German, and Japanese. The studies in this volume are organized around three interrelated topics. The first of these concerns the organization of modal constructions in a network. A second focus area of the studies in this volume concerns the developmental pathways that modal constructions follow diachronically. The third topic that ties the contributions of this volume together is the contrast between constructionalization and constructional change.
| Author | : Holger Diessel |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 2019-08-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1108498817 |
Provides a dynamic network model of grammar that explains how linguistic structure is shaped by language use.
| Author | : Ronny Boogaart |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2014-09-12 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110366274 |
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.
| Author | : Tobias Ungerer |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2023-07-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027249539 |
This book brings together research in cognitive linguistics and experimental psychology to construct a psychologically plausible account of grammar as a mental network. To explore the organisation of this network, the author examines evidence from structural priming, which occurs when speakers’ processing of a grammatical construction is affected by prior exposure to the same or a similar construction. Previous experimental findings are innovatively reinterpreted to shed light on various aspects of the grammatical network, including the strength of the similarities between constructions, the level of abstraction at which they are represented and the ways in which similar constructions can either boost or inhibit each other. Moreover, new experiments are reported that extend structural priming to phenomena like the resultative, the depictive and the caused-motion construction. The book is directed at theoretical linguists, psycholinguists and cognitive psychologists alike, showcasing how recent work in these areas can be integrated and extended.
| Author | : Tobias Ungerer |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 150 |
| Release | : 2023-07-31 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1009308750 |
Construction Grammar (CxG) has developed into a broad and highly diverse family of approaches that have in common that they see constructions, i.e. form-meaning pairs at various levels of abstraction and complexity, as the basic units of language. This Element gives an overview of the origin and the current state of the art of constructionist approaches, focusing, on the one hand, on basic concepts like the notion of 'constructions', while at the same time offering an in-depth discussion of current research trends and open questions. It discusses the commonalities and differences between the major constructionist approaches, the organization of constructional networks as well as ongoing research on linguistic creativity, multimodality and individual differences. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
| Author | : Elizabeth Closs Traugott |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2022-03-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027257922 |
This book is a contribution to the growing field of diachronic construction grammar. Focus is on corpus evidence for the importance of including conventionalized pragmatics within construction grammar and suggestions for how to do so. The empirical domain is the development of Discourse Structuring Markers in English such as after all, also, all the same, by the way, further and moreover (also known as Discourse Markers). The term Discourse Structuring Markers highlights their use not only to connect discourse segments but also to shape discourse coherence and understanding. Monofunctional Discourse Structuring Markers like further, instead, moreover are distinguished from multifunctional ones like after all and by the way. Drawing on usage-based work on constructionalization and constructional changes, the book is in three parts: foundational concepts, case studies, and currently open issues in diachronic construction grammar. These open issues are how to incorporate the concepts subjectification and intersubjectification into a constructional account of change, whether position in a clause is a construction, and the nature of constructional networks and how they change.
| Author | : Fredrik Valdeson |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2024-06-14 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 900468641X |
This book presents the first major study of ditransitives in Swedish. Using a combination of well-established and innovative corpus-based methods, the book reveals considerable changes in the constructional behaviour of ditransitive verbs over the course of the last 200 years. The key finding is that the use of the so-called double object construction has decreased dramatically in terms of frequency, lexical richness and semantic range. This development is parallelled by a decisive increase in prepositional object constructions. The results are of high relevance to the ongoing debate within construction grammar on constructional productivity and on the nature of horizontal links.
| Author | : Elizabeth Closs Traugott |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 2013-11 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0199679894 |
This book develops an approach to language change based on construction grammar in order to reconceptualize grammaticalization and lexicalization. The authors show that language change proceeds by micro-steps involving every aspect of grammar including pragmatics and discourse functions. A new and productive approach to historical linguistics.
