In:A Construction Grammar of the English Language: CASA – a Constructionist Approach to Syntactic Analysis
Thomas Herbst and Thomas Hoffmann
[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice 5] 2024
► pp. 70–131
Chapter 5Who does what to whom?
Argument structure constructions
Published online: 24 October 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/clip.5.c5
https://doi.org/10.1075/clip.5.c5
Article outline
- 5.1General introduction
- 5.1.1Ways of looking at argument structure
- 5.1.2The emergence of argument structure constructions
- 5.1.3Argument structure constructions at different levels of abstraction
- 5.1.3.1Valency constructions and pre-emption
- 5.1.3.2Participant roles and argument roles
- 5.1.3.3Levels of knowledge associated with argument structure constructions
- 5.1.3.4Summary
- 5.2The CASA framework of argument structure constructions
- 5.2.1Specification of argument structure constructions in CASA
- 5.2.2Specification of argument slots: Subj-, Obj- and Attr-arguments
- 5.2.3Why Subj does not automatically mean SUBJ
- 5.2.4Argument roles
- 5.2.5Names of constructions
- 5.2.6Subj-arguments
- 5.3A one-argument construction: The English intransitive construction
- 5.4æffector and æffected: Monotransitive constructions
- 5.4.1Monotransitive constructions
- 5.4.1.1The monotransitive construction with ObjNP
- 5.4.1.2Monotransitive constructions with clausal objects
- 5.4.2Introducing a recipient: Ditransitive constructions
- 5.4.2.1The ditransitive construction with ObjNP
- 5.4.2.2Ditransitive constructions with clausal objects
- 5.4.1Monotransitive constructions
- 5.5Motion constructions
- 5.5.1Self-motion and caused-motion
- 5.5.2caused-motion and to-recipient constructions
- 5.6Attribute and resultative constructions
- 5.6.1subject-attribute constructions
- 5.6.2object-attribute constructions
- 5.6.3A note on resultative constructions
- 5.7Constructions with prepositional objects
- 5.7.1General characterization
- 5.7.2change-of-state and into-causative constructions
- 5.7.3general-issue and specific-issue: ObjPP:about and ObjPP:on
- 5.7.4Communication partners: to-recipient/goal and with-partner
- 5.7.5Instrument and emotion
- 5.7.6The English conative construction
- 5.7.7desired-thing constructions
- 5.7.8The nature of prepositional objects
- 5.8Perspectivization of arguments
- 5.8.1Actives and passives
- 5.8.2Discrepancies between active and passive expressions of arguments
- 5.8.3Perspectivization
- 5.8.4The mediopassive construction
- 5.9Combining argument structure constructions with sentence type constructions
- 5.10Adjectival argument structure constructions
- 5.10.1Argument structure constructions across word classes
- 5.10.2General design of adjective argument structure constructions
- 5.10.3Adjectival argument structure constructions with prepositional phrases
- 5.10.4Adjectival argument structure constructions with that- and wh-clauses
- 5.10.5Different types of infinitive constructions with adjectives
- 5.10.5.1difficultetc-to-infinitive construction
- 5.10.5.2willingetc-to-infinitive construction
- 5.10.5.3braveetc-to-infinitive construction
- 5.10.5.4The surprisedetc-to-infinitive construction
- 5.10.5.5Adjective+infinitive constructions with quasi-modal meanings
- 5.10.6Impersonal constructions with adjectives
- 5.10.6.1it-that-clause construction
- 5.10.6.2The it-be-importantetc-for-x-to-infinitive construction
- 5.10.6.3The it-be-importantetc-for-beneficiary-to-infinitive construction
- 5.10.6.4The niceetc-of-x-to-infinitive construction
- 5.10.6.5Impersonal adjective construction without PPs
- 5.11Nominal argument structure constructions
- 5.12A network of argument structure constructions
- 5.13Argument structure in CASA and other approaches
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