Constructions in Applied Linguistics
Edited by Susan Hunston and Florent Perek
Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 24:3 (2019) v, 150 pp.
Florent Perek
List of John Benjamins publications in which Florent Perek is involved.
Titles
Argument Structure in Usage-Based Construction Grammar: Experimental and corpus-based perspectives
Florent Perek
The argument structure of verbs, defined as the part of grammar that deals with how participants in verbal events are expressed in clauses, is a classical topic in linguistics that has received considerable attention in the literature. This book investigates argument structure in English from a… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 17] 2015. x, 246 pp.
2025 Some as an indefinite article in Present Day English: A case of paradigmatization and constructional competition Today’s Innovations, Tomorrow’s Conventions: Usage-based approaches to incipient developments in English, Lorenz, David and David Tizón-Couto (eds.), pp. 131–161 | Article
This paper investigates the different functions of some in Present Day English. It especially focuses on whether and to what extent some functions as an indefinite article for non-count and plural nouns and as such competes with the bare marking strategy (I need to buy some milk/some cigarettes… read more
2022 You don’t get to see that every day: On the development of permissive get Variation and Grammaticalization of Verbal Constructions, Czicza, Dániel and Gabriele Diewald (eds.), pp. 13–40 | Article
This paper contributes to the study of grammaticalization phenomena from the perspective of Construction Grammar (Coussé et al. 2018). It is concerned with modal uses of the English verb get that express a permitted action, as in The prisoners always get to make one phone call. Different views… read more
2020 Valency coercion in Italian: An exploratory study Constructions and Frames 12:2, pp. 171–205 | Article
The paper investigates valency coercion effects in Italian by means of an acceptability rating task on nine argument structure constructions. The experimental design follows Perek & Hilpert (2014) in presenting three conditions: grammatical, impossible and coercion stimuli. This design allows us… read more
2020 Productivity and schematicity in constructional change Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar, Sommerer, Lotte and Elena Smirnova (eds.), pp. 141–166 | Chapter
In Diachronic Construction Grammar, many instances of language change can be captured in terms of variation in the schematicity and productivity of constructions. These two notions are often thought to be interrelated, which suggests that they might be collapsed and treated as essentially the… read more
2019 Towards an English Constructicon using patterns and frames Constructions in Applied Linguistics, Hunston, Susan and Florent Perek (eds.), pp. 354–384 | Article
Recent research in construction grammar has been marked by increasing efforts to create constructicons: detailed inventories of form-meaning pairs to describe the grammar of a given language, following the principles of construction grammar. This paper describes proposals for building a new… read more
2017 A distributional semantic approach to the periodization of change in the productivity of constructions International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 22:4, pp. 490–520 | Article
This paper describes a method to automatically identify stages of language change in diachronic corpus data, combining variability-based neighbour clustering, which offers objective and reproducible criteria for periodization, and distributional semantics as a representation of lexical meaning.… read more
2016 Constructional tolerance: Cross-linguistic differences in the acceptability of non-conventional uses of constructions Constructions across Grammars, Hilpert, Martin and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 131–168 | Article
The present paper investigates the question whether different languages can be categorized into ‘constructionally tolerant’ languages, which grant speakers considerable freedom to combine syntactic constructions with lexical items in non-conventional ways, and ‘valency-driven’ languages, which… read more
2014 Rethinking constructional polysemy: The case of the English conative construction Corpus Methods for Semantics: Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy, Glynn, Dylan and Justyna A. Robinson (eds.), pp. 61–85 | Article
This chapter examines the conative construction, e.g., I kicked at the ball, using
collexeme analysis. Previous studies report that strong collexemes of a construction
provide an indication of its central meaning, from which polysemic extensions
are derived. However, the conative construction does… read more
2014 Constructional tolerance: Cross-linguistic differences in the acceptability of non-conventional uses of constructions Reflections on Constructions across Grammars, Hilpert, Martin and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 266–304 | Article
The present paper investigates the question whether different languages can be categorized into ‘constructionally tolerant’ languages, which grant speakers considerable freedom to combine syntactic constructions with lexical items in non-conventional ways, and ‘valency-driven’ languages, which… read more