Amanda L. Patten
List of John Benjamins publications in which Amanda L. Patten is involved.
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
2014 The historical development of the it-cleft: A comparison of two different approaches Theory and Data in Cognitive Linguistics, Gisborne, Nikolas and Willem B. Hollmann (eds.), pp. 87–114 | Article
This chapter compares two approaches to a particular grammatical change. While Ball (1991, 1994) investigates the development of the it-cleft configuration from within the generative tradition of the 1990s, I have recently re-examined the historical it-cleft data from a constructional perspective… read more
2012 The historical development of the it-cleft: A comparison of two different approaches Theory and data in cognitive linguistics, Gisborne, Nikolas and Willem B. Hollmann (eds.), pp. 548–575 | Article
This paper compares two approaches to a particular grammatical change. While Ball (1991, 1994) investigates the development of the it-cleft configuration from within the generative tradition of the 1990s, I have recently re-examined the historical it-cleft data from a constructional perspective… read more
2010 Grammaticalization and the it-cleft construction Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Graeme Trousdale (eds.), pp. 221–243 | Article
This paper reexamines the development of the it-cleft construction from the perspective of grammaticalization theory. In a previous study, Ball (1991, 1994) finds that the it-cleft was initially restricted to NP foci, with the relative clause expressing presupposed information that is already known… read more