In:Collocations as a Language Resource: A functional and cognitive study in English phraseology
Sonja Poulsen
[Human Cognitive Processing 71] 2022
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Published online: 8 April 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.71.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.71.toc
Table of contents
List of tables
xv
List of figures
xiii
Preface and acknowledgements
ix
Chapter 1.Introduction
1
1.1An outline of the traditional phraseological approach to collocations
2
1.2What is a ‘collocation’?
4
1.3Problems of categorization in the traditional approach
7
1.4Motivation for a functional and cognitive approach
12
1.5What should a theory of collocations account for?
18
1.6A brief overview of the book
25
Chapter 2.The foundations of the phraseological approach
27
2.1Theoretical influences on phraseology
28
2.1.1A practical concern: Teaching English as a foreign language
28
2.1.2Firthian linguistics
30
2.1.3Underlying assumptions
38
2.1.3.1Structuralist dichotomies
39
2.1.3.2Generative principle
42
2.1.3.3Classical categories
45
2.1.4Russian phraseology
47
2.1.5A cognitive strand
50
2.2The categorization of collocations in the phraseological approach
64
2.2.1Collocations as syntactic units
64
2.2.2Institutionalization
66
2.2.3The absence of full compositionality
70
2.2.4Restricted compositionality as a criterial feature
74
2.2.5Analysability, compositionality, and the literal/figurative distinction
80
2.3Summary and conclusions
86
Chapter 3.Collocations in a functional and cognitive framework
89
3.1What is ‘cognitive’ and what is ‘functional’ about language?
89
3.2Methodological issues
98
3.2.1Corpus studies, frequency, and prototypicality
99
3.2.2Linguistic evidence of cognitive routines
107
3.2.3Synchronic evidence of diachronic processes
129
3.3Introduction to the empirical part
131
3.3.1Research questions and motivation
131
3.3.2Design of case study
132
3.3.3A general presentation of the data
133
3.4Case study: Break an appointment
134
3.4.1How to approach the analysis of a complex category
135
3.4.1.1How many meanings does a word have?
135
3.4.1.2Domains, image schemas and construction types
144
3.4.2The internal structure of break
146
3.4.2.1Abstract domains and referential range
148
3.4.2.2Image schemas and event structure
156
3.4.2.3Construction types
167
3.4.2.4How many meanings does break have?
175
3.4.3The internal structure of appointment
201
3.4.3.1Abstract domains and referential range
203
3.4.3.2Lexical sets, basic-level categories, and domains of variation
209
3.4.3.3Image schemas and event structure
216
3.4.3.4Construction types
222
3.4.3.5How many meanings does appointment have?
229
3.4.4The integration of break and appointment
239
3.4.4.1Break an-appointment as a composite structure
240
3.4.4.2Evidence of entrenchment
246
3.4.4.3Can a support-verb function be posited for break?
257
3.4.4.4Is break as a support verb grammaticalized?
266
3.5Summary of findings related to research questions
278
3.5.1To what extent are entrenched collocations like other composite structures?
278
3.5.2In what respects are entrenched collocations special?
284
3.5.3Can entrenched collocations be characterized in terms of salience?
285
3.5.4Do verbs in entrenched collocations function as support verbs, and does this imply grammaticalization?
287
3.5.5Concluding remarks on research questions
290
Chapter 4.Collocations as a language resource: Winding up
293
4.1Evaluation of methodology
294
4.2Theoretical implications
300
4.3Much more to do
304
References
309
Index
326
