Ryan Dux

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ryan Dux is involved.

Title

Frame-Constructional Verb Classes: Change and Theft verbs in English and German

Ryan Dux

While verb classes are a mainstay of linguistic research, the field lacks consensus on precisely what constitutes a verb class. This book presents a novel approach to verb classes, employing a bottom-up, corpus-based methodology and combining key insights from Frame Semantics, Construction Grammar,… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 28] 2020. x, 320 pp.

Articles

Dux, Ryan 2020 Code-switching and loan translation in German-American: A cognitive-constructional account The Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research, Colleman, Timothy, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.), pp. 52–65 | Article

This squib applies and extends insights from (Diasystematic) Construction Grammar to the code-switching and loan-translation of English verbs (and verbal constructions) in US-German dialects. After presenting recent findings about the nature and interaction of language contact phenomena, I… read more

Dux, Ryan 2018 Texas German and English word order constructions in contact Constructions in Contact: Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages, Boas, Hans C. and Steffen Höder (eds.), pp. 211–249 | Chapter

After reviewing previous accounts of Texas German (TxG) syntax, I define the basic word order constructions of English and German and identify which are identical across the languages (i.e. diaconstructions). Next, I analyze 300 TxG utterances and determine whether their syntax corresponds more… read more