In:Imperative-Based Dialogic Constructions and Discourse Units
Vassiliki Geka
[Constructional Approaches to Language 39] 2025
► pp. 237–240
Subject index
Published online: 1 April 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.39.si
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.39.si
A
- abstraction, level of 25, 27
- Addressee 7, 29, 30, 62, 66, 77, 98, 103, 106, 107, 108, 110, 111, 122, 124, 126 (also ft), 127, 130–139, 147, 148, 150–151, 163, 167 see Recipient
- adversatives34
- affected entity68
- affective evidence
18, 58
- stance 11, 35, 86, 82, 102
- alteric potential32
- Alterity 31, marker 31, 66
- Amendment 40, 91, 100, 108, 110
- annotation, grid 41, 44, 49, 60
- announcement (a), of unexpected information 68, 77
- antagonistic context(s) / discourse 4, 8, 15
- antecedent proposition 12, 98, 99, 105, 107
- anticipatory 3, 11, 12, 29, 33, 64, 75, 135, 147
- apodosis clause 99–100, 102, 105, 111, 114, 116, 156, 167
- arbitrary formations 7, 162
- associations24
- assumed (also putative) participants/addressee 4, 8, 62, 110
- attention-getter/-marker 119, 123, 125
- attention-summoning effect 12, 127, 142
B
- backward-pointing/-looking scope 3, 33, 39, 63 (also ft), 73, 82, 148, 149
- BELIEVE-constructions/-family
11, 30, 38, 58–88, 145
- BELIEVE IT OR NOT 1, 5, 6, 7, 12, 25, 26, 71–74
- BELIEVE ME 1, 5, 6, 12, 25, 59–64
- BELIEVE YOU ME 1, 5, 6, 7, 12, 25, 26, 65–71
- BITE ME146 (also ft)
- boundedness, of discourse units39
- box notation (diagrams) 12, 145, 152, 153
C
- Causee66
- Causer66
- clausal starting point 36, 162
- clausal status 3, 5, 167
- clause level constructions3
- Central Limit Theorem (CLT)53
- challenge (c), pragmatic point of105
- speech act (force) of 106, 108–110, 115, 117, 149–151
- cline, of pragmaticality 12, 165, 166
- Cognizer 35, 108
- collocational behaviour 8, 45, 50–51, 73ft
- COME AGAIN 26 (also ft), 147 (also ft)
- comment clauses 28, 119, 122 (also ft), 134ft
- commissives34
- comparatives52
- complementation 14, 26, 59, 62, 78, 90, 93 (also ft), 96 (also ft), 98, 120
- compositional 2ft, 61ft, 95, 96ft, 97, 117, 147
- compositional counterpart 62, 97, 101, 107, 147
- concessions 34, 134, 142
- concessive conditionality72
- (non-)concessive/cancellative discourse marker 119, 123–126
- configuration 14, 22, 26, 35, 58–59, 67ft, 71, 89, 92–94, 125–126, 136, 153, 155
- conjunctive adverb 7, 156
- constructional entities 4, 7, 12, 25
- constructional maps24
- Construction Grammar (CxG) 1, 22–26
- constructionist flavours22
- constructions (cxns) 1 (also ft), 3–4, 6, 11, 22–26
- content parenthetical disjunct122
- contentful, meaning 164, 166
- context1
- contextual dependencies /elements/ regularities 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 49 (also ft), 52, 64 96, 102, 135
- contextual recoverability 7, 67, 155
- conventionalised 1, 3, 23, 77, 107, 136
- conversational frame 103, 110, 167
- core (elements)23
- corpora 41, 45–49
- corpus-attested/-based
1ft, 45
- -driven45 (also ft)
- evidence 2, 45, 105, 117
- query system2ft
- co-temporal participant 21, 98
D
- demand, for faith/trust 65, 71–88
- deontic modality97
- dependency relations, syntactic 9, 38, 110
- desemanticised ‘alterity markers’66
- detachability 93, 95, 96
- dialogic function7
- perspectivisation 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 12, 25, 31, 35, 117, 144, 145–160 ; see also schema
- projection 78, 108, 118, 139
- dialogicity 4, 8, 31, 33
- dialoguality 5, 32, 33
- dialogue 5, 10–11, 31–32, 50
- directives
34, 35, 46, 47
- grammatical100
- lexical 68, 99, 102
- discourse
- connectivity 164–165
- dialogic scope 5, 9, 62, 65, 69, 82, 85, 88, 107, 144
- formulas38
- framing (function) 3, 39
- function(s) 4, 27, 64
- insert mechanism4
- -level constructions 1, 27
- macro-, meso-, micro-level3
- discourse markers 30, 164
- discourse (structuring) phenomena/expressions/mechanisms/markers (D(s)Ms) 3, 9, 12, 28, 29, 110, 161, 164 (also ft), 165–166
- discourse-pragmatics 7, 14, 27, 135
- discourse position 7, 50, 117 ; see also sentence-initial/final, parenthetical
- discourse units, delimitation 1, 3, 4, 9, 36–40, 70, 107–111, 136–139
- disjunction 7, 25, 71–72, 146 (also ft)
- disjunctive syntax 72, 88, 150, 153
- dispositional semantics 12, 14, 18, 20, 61, 120, 135, 144, 148, 157
- disputable proposition39
- downtoner19
E
- edges24
- elaboration (e) 75, 77
- empirical distribution 55, 78, 112, 143
- empirically ascertained4
- grounded / supported 1, 3, 10
- endocentric5see internal discourse features
- entrenchment 53, 78, 107, 111, 158ft, 159
- epistemic modal particles52
- epistemicity 16, 17–20, 22
- evidentiality 16, 17–20, 22
- exocentric5see external discourse features
- expandability 36, 39
- Experiencer 68 (also fts)
- expressivity 62, 70, 71, 72
- external discourse features 5, 11, 32 see exocentric
F
- factuality 7, 71, 73
- faith 59, 60–61, 65, 68, 70, 72, 88, 147, 150, 154–155, 166 see truth
- fictive interaction 76, 103 (also ft), 110–111, 167
- fixed idiom(s)7
- focus particles52
- formal fixedness65
- formal invariance62
- formal variation96
- forward-pointing (framing) scope/effect 3, 9
- frequency
8, 10
- counts 10, 49, 60ft, 78–82, 111–114, 139–142
- fully-compositional 5, 60, 78, 86, 88, 89, 92, 94ft, 101
- functional-conceptual space25
G
- genre-level/-oriented 3, 27
- givenness67
- gradient compositionality147
H
- HARK YOU149 (also ft)
- HATE ME146 (also ft)
- hedge19
- hierarchy24
- horizontal relations24
- host 4, 5, 9, 62, 69, 70, 71, 85, 127, 134, 139, 166 ; see also utterance
I
- idiomaticity12
- appendix22
- continuum24
- idiosyncratic (features) 8, 29, 102
- illocutionary force 51, 52
- imperative 1, 3, 5, 25, 29, 35, 145
- inchoative verbs94
- incongruity27
- incredulity27
- incremental flow8
- independent standing /sentential status 5, 99
- inherit(ance) 6, 7, 24, 25, 26
- inferencing 130–133, 135–137, 139, 148–149, 157, 163, 167
- Information Structure (InS)67
- injunctive 20 (also ft), 120 (also ft)
- inserts 1, 28
- integrated account6
- Intended Agent66
- intensifiers/intensification 51, 102
- Interactional Linguistics 1, 36, 39
- interactional sequentiality29
- interdependent (sub)components4
- internal discourse features 5, 11, 32 see endocentric
- internal variability 8, 11, 22, 150
- intersubjective
- function 7, 29 , 101
- perspectivisation13
- space 35, 87
- intersubjectivity 5, 35, 66
- interpersonal function(ality) 1, 4
- invitation, for faith/trust 65, 147
- irrealis 62 (also ft), 90, 102
J
- justification (j) 40, 108
L
- language change 29, 30
- lexical repetition 52, 130, 138, 142 see reduplication
- lexicographic insights 4, 10, 41, 42–44
- lexicon1
- lexico-syntactic/semantic, pragmatic projections 9, 37
- licensing supertype/‘schema’24
- licensing template 4ft, 12, 146–147
- linguistic strings 1, 4
- links24
- local content/rectification 127, 131, 135, 137, 144
M
- MARK YOU149 (also ft)
- marked word order 52, 80
- matrix clause122
- maximally four-place (units)77
- mental state verbs 1, 4, 13–17, 22–22, 25, 29
- metalinguistic operations/interpretations 131, 136, 142
- metonymy 16, 89
- meso-discourse level 3, 4, 28, 161
- MIND YOU 1, 5, 6, 7, 12, 30, 119–144
- minimal constructional synonymy 7, 65
- minimally tripartite units77
- monologicity 5, 31, 33
- monologuality 5, 32, 33
- morphological marking 5–6, 8, 11, 47 (also ft), 50, 60–61, 107–108, 113, 116, 121–126, 145
- motivated properties 3, 5, 14
- motivating effect7
- motivation 8, 35, 102–107, 151, 153
N
- narrative mode125
- negotiatory gradience, maximal/ minimal 149, 151
- network 4, 8, 24, 144, 145–160
- newness67
- node24
- non-alignment 8, 81, 112
- non-assertion 7, 35, 46–47, 50, 102, 103
- NON-CANONICAL IMPERATIVE 7, 23, 66
- non-compositionality 4, 12, 145, 159, 162
- non-modular (entities)23
- non-parametric, tests 55–56
O
- omission 1, 28, 111, 129, 134, 139
- ontological openness (to expandability)36
- operators, of discourse structure 165, 168
- optionality, criteria of 165, 166, 167
- Other-Orientedness31
P
- paradigmatic axis24see syntagmatic axis
- parenthetical 7, 28, 147 see discourse
- partial inheritance 24, 65, 71, 145
- Patients 68, 144 see Undergoers
- peripheral elements/patterns 1, 23
- perlocutionary effect163
- perspectivised function/meaning 5, 15, 101, 105, 167
- polyfunctionality 14, 15, 17, 19
- polysemy 8, 14, 15, 17–20
- positional flexibility 11, 50 (also ft), 62, 128, 148–149
- post-posed (pronominal) subject 7, 66, 68, 121
- pragmatic framing39
- predicate-pivoted37
- prepositional-complementation62
- procedural, meaning 165–166
- productive constructions 6, 7, 8, 158
- productivity, in the language/ of the template 12, 107, 145–148, 152
- projectability 36, 37, 39 see projection
- projection 37, 110 see projectability
- projective 3, 4, 29, 64
- profiling of participants 5, 66, 121
- properties 1, 6, 7, 13, 23, 147–149
- proposition
61–62, 117,
120
- antecedent 98, 105
- challenged106
- disputable 107–109
- initial 77, 110
- propositional attitude verbs 14, 15, 20–22
- propositional, meaning/content 4 ft, 17, 18, 62, 89, 134, 166 (ft)
- prosodic contour
49ft, 70, 146
ft, 99ft
- enveloping 165, 166
- prosody, negative, positive 51, 52, 64, 70
- protasis-apodosis 37, 99, 100, 110, 156
- prototypical(ity)25
- psychological, narrow focus 67, 121
Q
- qualification
120 (also ft), 125, 127
- retroactive127
- qualitative (considerations) 10, 45–52
- quantifiers52
- quantitative (considerations) 10, 53–56
R
- random sampling 53–55
- reanalysis122
- Recipient 33, 103 see Addressee
- reconsideration 97, 101, 148
- rectification
12, 30, 39, 119, 128–139
- global content/rectification 127, 131, 135, 137, 144
- reduplication 52, 130, 138, 142 see lexical repetition
- referential opacity13
- reformulation 46–47, 126, 128, 136, 166 (ft)
- regulatory discourse framing agents 4, 28
- reliability 57, 86–87
- repetitive (semantics) 7, 90
- representativeness 48, 53–54
- responsive scope 3, 4, 12, 33, 75
- restitutive (semantics) 7, 90
- retroactive modalisation127
S
- salience49 (also ft)
- SAY AGAIN26
- scaffolding function/role 4, 9
- scalarity 27, 35, 72
- schema 12, 29 see dialogic perspectivisation
- schematic constructions 5, 8, 23
- self-referent object 67, 145
- semantic-pragmatic(s), import 4, 7, 39, 87, 90
- semi-schematic28ft
- sentence-final/initial7see discourse position, parenthetical
- singleton 67, 146
- social action38
- stance16
- -encoding elements 11, 51
- markers164 (also ft)
- -enriched context(s)4 (also ft)
- statistical reliability 10, 86, 116, 144
- significance 10, 53, 55–56, 83–85, 115–116, 143
- stativity16
- storage25
- stretchable blueprints23
- sub-constructions 4, 25, 159
- Subject- (/-Speaker) orientation94
- subjectification125
- subjectivity 5, 32, 35, 67
- substantivity/substantive 64, 102, 144, 147
- substitution96
- superlatives52
- supertype (schemas) 25, 30
- supra-clausal level3
- synchronic aspects, orientation 1, 10, 29, 117
- synchronic variability29
- syntactic complementation/ configuration 13, 59, 89–90, 93 see dependency relations
- syntactic interdependencies8
- syntagmatic axis24see also paradigmatic axis
- systematicity 8, 48–49, 51, 80 105, 107, 133
T
- textual functionality1
- Themes68
- THINK AGAIN 1, 5, 6, 12, 26, 30, 89–118
- tokens 1ft, 10, 61ft
- trust 59, 60–61, 65, 68, 70, 72, 88, 147, 150, 154–155, 166 ; see also faith
- TRUST ME 26 (also ft), 47, 68
- truth conditionality 22, 165–167
- truthfulness, of the proposition 61, 63, 70
U
- Undergoers68
- Unified Imperative Subject66
- universal primitive51
- usage-based account/treatment 22, 25, 41
- utterance 1, 31, 70, 71, 111, 114, 124, 127, 134, 138, 140, 166 ; see also host
V
- variants, alternating 24, 29, 30, 65
- variation, co-temporal29
- verb(al) class 4ft, 13
- verba sentiendi28
- vertex24
- vertical relations24
W
- WATCH ME 25, 146
- weakening-concessive semantics 7, 156
