Quo Vadis, Construction Grammar?
Edited by Hans C. Boas, Jaakko Leino and Benjamin Lyngfelt
Special issue of Constructions and Frames 16:2 (2024) v, 177 pp.
Jaakko Leino
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jaakko Leino is involved.
Titles
Constructional Reorganization
Edited by Jaakko Leino
The present volume consists of several novel and different applications of the Construction Grammar framework to areas such as language change, variation, and the internal organization of grammar. The book is a collection of articles which bring together the framework of Construction Grammar and… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 5] 2008. vi, 155 pp.
2024 Constructionist views on Construction Grammar Quo Vadis, Construction Grammar?, Boas, Hans C., Jaakko Leino and Benjamin Lyngfelt (eds.), pp. 169–190 | Introduction
2015 The syntactic and semantic history of the Finnish genitive subject: Construction networks and the rise of a grammatical category Subjects in Constructions – Canonical and Non-Canonical, Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa and Tuomas Huumo (eds.), pp. 231–251 | Article
Prototypical Finnish subjects are marked with the nominative case. In many
non-finite expression types, however, the subject is marked with the genitive
case. The genitive subject has grammaticalized from three different sources. In
some constructions, it developed from an earlier adverbial… read more
2012 Discontinuous constituents or independent constructions? The case of the Finnish “split genitive” Constructions and Frames 4:1, pp. 56–75 | Article
In many formal theories of grammar, pairs of expressions such as the active and the passive are treated as variants of each other — the passive typically being a secondary construction derived from the active by operations that change the syntactic structure. Recent accounts based on Cognitive… read more
2010 Results, cases, and constructions: Argument structure constructions in English and Finnish Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar, Boas, Hans C. (ed.), pp. 103–136 | Article
2008 1. Grammar as a Construction Site Constructional Reorganization, Leino, Jaakko (ed.), pp. 1–10 | Article
2005 Frames, profiles and constructions: Two collaborating CGs meet the Finnish Permissive Construction Construction Grammars: Cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions, Östman, Jan-Ola and Mirjam Fried (eds.), pp. 89–120 | Chapter
2005 8. Constructions and variability Grammatical Constructions: Back to the roots, Fried, Mirjam and Hans C. Boas (eds.), pp. 191–213 | Chapter
In this paper, we discuss the prevalent diversity of constructionist approaches in relation to the idea of Construction Grammar as a coherent field of linguistic study. We do so, based on the views of about 190 constructionist researchers, as expressed in a questionnaire in 2021. While the… read more