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Construction Grammars
Cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions
The notion ‘construction’ has become indispensable in present-day linguistics and in language studies in general. This volume extends the traditional domain of Construction Grammar (CxG) in several directions, all with a cognitive basis. Addressing a number of issues (such as coercion, discourse patterning, language change), the contributions show how CxG must be part and parcel of cognitively oriented studies of language, including language universals. The volume also gives informative accounts of how the notion ‘construction’ is developed in approaches that are conceptually close to, and relatively compatible with, CxG: Conceptual Semantics, Word Grammar, Cognitive Grammar, Embodied Construction Grammar, and Radical Construction Grammar.
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 3] 2005. viii, 325 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 July 2008
Published online on 1 July 2008
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Table of Contents
- The Cognitive grounding of Constructional GrammarJan-Ola Östman and Mirjam Fried | pp. 1–13
- Theoretical extensions
- Argument realization: The role of constructions, lexical semantics and discourse factorsAdele E. Goldberg | pp. 17–43
- Entity and event coercion in a symbolic theory of syntaxLaura A. Michaelis | pp. 45–88
- Frames, profiles and constructions: Two collaborating CGs meet the Finnish Permissive ConstructionJaakko Leino | pp. 89–120
- Construction Discourse: A prolegomenonJan-Ola Östman | pp. 121–144
- Construction Grammars
- Embodied Construction Grammar in simulation-based language understandingBenjamin K. Bergen and Nancy Chang | pp. 147–190
- Constructions in Conceptual SemanticsUrpo Nikanne | pp. 191–242
- Constructions in Word GrammarJasper Holmes and Richard A. Hudson | pp. 243–272
- Logical and typological arguments for Radical Construction GrammarWilliam A. Croft | pp. 273–314
- Subject Index | pp. 315–322
- Index of constructions | pp. 323–324
“One of the strengths of this volume is without a doubt, the excellent overview and comparisons of the different formalisms available for construction grammarians, both unification-based formalisms and others. It is inspiring to see so many academics raise themselves above their own theoretical models in order to bring to the fore the commonalities and joint aspects of various different, although seemingly related, frameworks, as is evident here.”
Jóhanna Barddal, University of Bergen, Language Volume 84, number 2 (2008)
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