In:Corpora, Constructions, New Englishes: A constructional and variationist approach to verb patterning
Samantha Laporte
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 100] 2021
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Published online: 14 July 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.100.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.100.toc
Table of contents
List of abbreviations
List of tables
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1.Introduction
1.1Background
1.2Scope and objectives
1.3Theoretical and methodological framework
1.4Research questions
1.5Outline of the book
Chapter 2.The World Englishes paradigm and New Englishes: From colonial past to present sociolinguistic profile
2.1The field of World Englishes
2.1.1Babel undone: English as a global language
2.1.2Kachru’s Three Concentric Circles model
2.1.3The Kachruvian legacy: Tenets of the World Englishes paradigm
2.2New Englishes: From unity to diversity
2.2.1Defining characteristics of New Englishes
2.2.2Schneider’s Dynamic Model of the evolution of postcolonial Englishes
2.3The sociolinguistic profiles of Hong Kong, Indian and Singapore English
2.3.1Hong Kong English
2.3.2Indian English
2.3.3Singapore English
2.3.4The varieties’ sociolinguistic profiles: A bird’s eye perspective
2.4Conclusion
Chapter 3.Structural nativization in New Englishes
3.1Structural nativization: Structural and conceptual considerations
3.1.1‘Feature’, ‘innovation’, ‘deviation’: A terminological maze
3.1.2The structural dimension of features
3.1.3The conceptual dimension of features
3.1.4Summing up: A definition of ‘feature’
3.2Structural nativization at the lexis-grammar interface: State-of-the-art
3.2.1Why lexicogrammar?
3.2.2Lexicogrammatical features across levels of abstraction
3.2.3Structural nativization and Schneider’s Dynamic Model
3.2.4Summing up: The bigger picture
Chapter 4.Construction Grammar meets Corpus Pattern Analysis
4.1Construction Grammar
4.1.1The essentials of Construction Grammar
4.1.2Argument Structure Constructions, verbs, and verb-specific constructions
4.1.3Construction Grammar and Corpus Linguistics: Two sides of the same coin
4.2Theory of Norms and Exploitations and Corpus Pattern Analysis
4.2.1Theory of Norms and Exploitations: Theoretical premises
4.2.2The method: Corpus Pattern Analysis
4.3Construction Grammar and the Theory of Norms and Exploitations compared
4.4Conclusion: The best of both worlds
Chapter 5.Data and methods: Identifying constructions bottom-up in the International Corpus of English
5.1The data: The International Corpus of English
5.2Data prepping and data extraction
5.2.1Tagging and cleaning the corpora
5.2.2Data extraction and counts
5.3Data annotation: Establishing constructions across levels of abstraction
5.3.1What counts as an argument?
5.3.2Argument Structure Construction annotation
5.3.3Establishing the Lexically-Bound Constructions of make: Adopting and adapting the CPA procedure
5.4Conclusion
Chapter 6.Establishing the native norm: The make-constructicon in British English
6.1
Make across Argument Structure Constructions
6.1.1The distribution of make across ASCs
6.1.2
Profiling the behavior of ASCs with make
6.1.3Interim summary
6.2The Lexically-Bound Constructions of make
6.2.1Lexically-Bound Constructions by the numbers
6.2.2Semantic types: Between specificity and versatility
6.2.3Interim conclusion: Toward the bigger picture
6.3The wood for the trees: Towards a make-constructicon of British English
6.3.1Integrating the LBC and ASC levels of abstraction
6.3.2Relations between and across ASCs
6.3.3The make-constructicon: A case of constructional polysemy
6.4Conclusion
Chapter 7.the schematic to substantive patterning of make across New Englishes
7.1Identifying the features of New Englishes across levels of abstraction
7.1.1A frequency profile of make
7.1.2High level of abstraction:
The ASCs of make across varieties
7.1.2.1The distribution of ASCs across varieties
7.1.2.2Losing it: Argument omission in ASC realizations
7.1.3Intermediate level of abstraction:
The LBCs of make
7.1.4Low level of abstraction: The syntactic, lexical and semantic patterning of the light verb construction
7.1.5The bigger picture: Linguistic behavior and the Dynamic Model
7.2The cognitive representation of New Englishes
7.2.1Background
7.2.2Method
7.2.3Results
7.2.4Summary and discussion
7.3Conclusion
Chapter 8.General conclusion
8.1Summary of the main findings
8.2Contributions at the interfaces
8.3Looking ahead: Avenues for further research
References
Appendices
Index
