Extending the Scope of Construction Grammar

✍ Scribed by Ronny Boogaart (editor); Timothy Colleman (editor); Gijsbert Rutten (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 388
• Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]; 54
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

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-ininteraction
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
Index