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Can Construction Grammar Be Proven Wrong?

Author : Bert Cappelle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009343181
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Can Construction Grammar Be Proven Wrong? written by Bert Cappelle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Construction Grammar has gained prominence in linguistics, owing its popularity to its inclusive approach that considers language units of varying sizes and generality as potential constructions – mentally stored form-function units. This Element serves as a cautionary note against complacency and dogmatism. It emphasizes the enduring importance of falsifiability as a criterion for scientific hypotheses and theories. Can every postulated construction, in principle, be empirically demonstrated not to exist? As a case study, the author examines the schematic English transitive verb-particle construction, which defies experimental verification. He argues that we can still reject its non-existence using sound linguistic reasoning. But beyond individual constructions, what could be a crucial test for Construction Grammar itself, one that would falsify it as a theory? In making a proposal for such a test, designed to prove that speakers also exhibit pure-form knowledge, this Element contributes to ongoing discussions about Construction Grammar's theoretical foundations.

Construction Grammar

Author : Thomas Hoffmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107013496
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Construction Grammar written by Thomas Hoffmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive cognitive account of English morphology and syntax that covers topics such as language acquisition and variation and change.

Diachronic Construction Grammar

Author : Jóhanna Barðdal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027268614
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Diachronic Construction Grammar by : Jóhanna Barðdal

Download or read book Diachronic Construction Grammar written by Jóhanna Barðdal and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Construction Grammar as a framework offers a new perspective on traditional historical questions in diachronic linguistics and language change: how do new constructions arise, how should competition in diachronic variation be accounted for, how do constructions fall into disuse, and how do constructions change in general, formally and/or semantically, and with what implications for the language system as a whole? This volume offers a broad introduction to the confluence of Construction Grammar and historical syntax, and also detailed case studies of various instances of syntactic change modeled within Construction Grammar. The volume demonstrates that Construction Grammar as a theory is particularly well suited for modeling historical changes in morphosyntax, and it also documents challenging new phenomena that require a theoretical account within any competing framework of syntactic change.

Construction Grammar and its Application to English

Author : Martin Hilpert
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748675868
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Book Synopsis Construction Grammar and its Application to English by : Martin Hilpert

Download or read book Construction Grammar and its Application to English written by Martin Hilpert and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as knowledge of constructions, which are defined as symbolic units that connect a linguistic form with meaning.

Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use

Author : Benoît Leclercq
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009273191
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Book Synopsis Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use by : Benoît Leclercq

Download or read book Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use written by Benoît Leclercq and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining insights from two of the most influential approaches in linguistics, Construction Grammar and Relevance Theory, this book furthers our understanding of how meaning comes about. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Construction Grammar and its Application to English

Author : Martin Hilpert
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748675884
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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ICCoLLiC 2020

Author : Djatmika
Publisher : European Alliance for Innovation
ISBN 13 : 1631902679
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book ICCoLLiC 2020 written by Djatmika and published by European Alliance for Innovation. This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ICCoLLIC is an international conference hosted by the English Department, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Sebelas Maret. This conference is arranged to become an annual conference making room for scholars and practitioners in the area of communication, language, literature, and culture to share their thoughts, knowledge, and recent researches in the field of study.

Syntactic Structures

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3112316002
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (123 download)

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Book Synopsis Syntactic Structures by : Noam Chomsky

Download or read book Syntactic Structures written by Noam Chomsky and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Syntactic Structures".

Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar

Author : Evie Coussé
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027264163
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar by : Evie Coussé

Download or read book Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar written by Evie Coussé and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammaticalization research has increasingly highlighted the notion of constructions in the last decade. In the wake of this heightened interest, efforts have been made in grammaticalization research to more precisely articulate the largely pretheoretical notion of construction in the theoretical framework of construction grammar. As such, grammaticalization research increasingly interacts and converges with the emerging field of diachronic construction grammar. This volume brings together articles that are situated at the intersection of grammaticalization research and diachronic construction grammar. All articles share an interest in integrating insights from grammaticalization research and construction grammar in order to advance our understanding of empirical cases of grammaticalization. Constructions at various levels of abstractness are investigated, both in well-documented languages, such as Ancient Greek, Latin, Spanish, German, Norwegian and English, and in less-described languages, such as Manchu and Mongolian.

Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology

Author : William Croft
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900436353X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology by : William Croft

Download or read book Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology written by William Croft and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology, William Croft presents a unified theory of linguistic form and meaning that encompasses crosslinguistic diversity, verbalization and language change.

Ten Lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar

Author : Martin Hilpert
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004446796
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Ten Lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar by : Martin Hilpert

Download or read book Ten Lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar written by Martin Hilpert and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Martin Hilpert lays out how Construction Grammar can be applied to the study of language change. In a series of ten lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar, the book presents the theoretical foundations, open questions, and methodological approaches that inform the constructional analysis of diachronic processes in language. The lectures address issues such as constructional networks, competition between constructions, shifts in collocational preferences, and differentiation and attraction in constructional change. The book features analyses that utilize modern corpus-linguistic methodologies and that draw on current theoretical discussions in usage-based linguistics. It is relevant for researchers and students in cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, and historical linguistics.

Sign-based Construction Grammar

Author : Hans Christian Boas
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
ISBN 13 : 9781575866284
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (662 download)

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Book Synopsis Sign-based Construction Grammar by : Hans Christian Boas

Download or read book Sign-based Construction Grammar written by Hans Christian Boas and published by Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume provides a general overview of Sign-Based Construction Grammar (SBCG), the synthesis of Berkeley Construction Grammar and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar that emerged from a decade of interactions between Ivan Sag, Charles Fillmore, Paul Kay and Laura Michaelis. The papers collected here also demonstrate the analytic value of SBCG for a variety of linguistic problems -- some old chestnuts, others untouched by 'mainstream' theories."--P. [4] of cover.

Construction Grammar in Second Language Teaching

Author : Sebastian Flock
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668361150
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (683 download)

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Book Synopsis Construction Grammar in Second Language Teaching by : Sebastian Flock

Download or read book Construction Grammar in Second Language Teaching written by Sebastian Flock and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Linguistik, Note: 1,3, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), Veranstaltung: Cognitive Linguistics: Construction Grammar, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: For more than 20 years now, the concept of constructions has been playing a more and more important role in theories of language acquisition and language use. In the 1980s Fillmore, Kay and O’Conner were the first linguists interested in constructionist approaches; and with her two books Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure and Construction at Work: The Nature of Generalization in Language Goldberg eventually paved the way for this alternative view on grammar. By now, Construction Grammar has become a wellaccepted descriptive and processing model that is based on a substantial body of scientific publications. However, the big interest of Construction Grammar research in first language acquisition and native speakers’ language use contrasts the little interest in the branch of second language acquisition. It is only recently that linguists have approached the question whether second language learners’ linguistic competence relies on constructions as well. Hence, it is no surprise that there has been only little interest in application of Construction Grammar in second language teaching as well. In my opinion, this is a wasted opportunity. If Construction Grammar is widely accepted in the field of first language acquisition, it is also necessary to transfer this concept to second language acquisition and teaching in order to create suitable teaching materials and methods. Thus, this paper is supposed to advocate an applied Construction Grammar in second language teaching.

Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics

Author : Stefan Th. Gries
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110197707
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics written by Stefan Th. Gries and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognitive Linguistics, the branch of linguistics that tries to "make one's account of human language accord with what is generally known about the mind and the brain," has become one of the most flourishing fields of contemporary linguistics. The chapters address many classic topics of Cognitive Linguistics. These topics include studies on the semantics of specific words (including polysemy and synonymy) as well as semantic characteristics of particular syntactic patterns / constructions (including constructional synonymy and the schematicity of constructions), the analysis of causatives, transitivity, and image-schematic aspects of posture verbs. The key characteristic of this volume is that all papers adopt the methodological perspective of Corpus Linguistics, the rapidly evolving branch of linguistics based on the computerized analysis of language used in authentic settings. Thus, the contributions do not only all provide various new insights in their respective fields, they also introduce new data as well as new corpus-based and quantitative methods of analysis. On the basis of their findings, the authors discuss both theoretical implications going well beyond the singular topics of the studies and show how the discipline of Cognitive Linguistics can benefit from the rigorous analysis of naturally-occurring language. The languages which are investigated are English, German, Dutch, and Russian, and the data come from a variety of different corpora. As such, the present volume will be of interest to a wide range of scholars with many different foci and interests and should pave the way for further integration of usage-based techniques of analysis within this exciting paradigm.

Applied Construction Grammar

Author : Sabine De Knop
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110458268
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Applied Construction Grammar by : Sabine De Knop

Download or read book Applied Construction Grammar written by Sabine De Knop and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current research within the framework of Construction Grammar (CxG) has mainly adopted a theoretical or descriptive approach, neglecting the more applied perspective and especially the question of how language acquisition and pedagogy can benefit from a CxG-based approach. The present volume explores various aspects of “Applied Construction Grammar” through a collection of studies that apply CxG and CxG-inspired approaches to relevant issues in L2 acquisition and teaching. Relying on empirical data and covering a wide range of constructions and languages, the chapters show how the cross-fertilization of CxG and L2 acquisition/teaching can improve the description of learners’ use of constructions, provide theoretical insights into the processes underlying their acquisition (e.g. with reference to inheritance links or transfer from the L1), or lead to novel teaching practices and resources aimed to help learners make the generalizations that native speakers make naturally from the input they receive.

Grammatical theory

Author : Stefan Müller
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961100748
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Grammatical theory written by Stefan Müller and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic the- orizing (Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Gram- mar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Construction Grammar, Tree Adjoining Grammar). The key assumptions are explained and it is shown how the respective the- ory treats arguments and adjuncts, the active/passive alternation, local reorderings, verb placement, and fronting of constituents over long distances. The analyses are explained with German as the object language. The second part of the book compares these approaches with respect to their predictions regarding language acquisition and psycholinguistic plausibility. The nativism hypothe- sis, which assumes that humans posses genetically determined innate language-specific knowledge, is critically examined and alternative models of language acquisition are dis- cussed. The second part then addresses controversial issues of current theory building such as the question of flat or binary branching structures being more appropriate, the question whether constructions should be treated on the phrasal or the lexical level, and the question whether abstract, non-visible entities should play a role in syntactic analyses. It is shown that the analyses suggested in the respective frameworks are often translatable into each other. The book closes with a chapter showing how properties common to all languages or to certain classes of languages can be captured. “With this critical yet fair reflection on various grammatical theories, Müller fills what has been a major gap in the literature.” Karen Lehmann, Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft, 2012 “Stefan Müller’ s recent introductory textbook, “Grammatiktheorie”, is an astonishingly comprehensive and insightful survey of the present state of syntactic theory for beginning students.” Wolfgang Sternefeld und Frank Richter, Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2012 “This is the kind of work that has been sought after for a while. [...] The impartial and objective discussion offered by the author is particularly refreshing.” Werner Abraham, Germanistik, 2012

Radical Construction Grammar

Author : William Croft
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0198299559
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Radical Construction Grammar written by William Croft and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2001 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but rather syntactic-semantic "Gestalts". He puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work.