Constructional Approaches to English Grammar

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2008

Constructional Approaches to English Grammar

Edited by: Graeme Trousdale and Nikolas Gisborne

Volume 57 in the series Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199178

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About this book

This collection of articles brings together new research from both established and emerging international experts in the study of English grammar, all of whom have engaged with the notion of 'construction' in their work. The research here is concerned with both synchrony and diachrony, with the relationship between Construction Grammar and other linguistic theories, and with a number of issues in the study of grammar, such as raising and control phenomena, transitivity, relative clause structure, the syntax of gerunds, attributive and predicative uses of adjectives, modality, and grammaticalization.

Some of the articles are written within a constructional framework, while others highlight potential problems with constructional approaches to English grammar; some of the articles are based on data collected from corpora, some on introspection; some of the articles suggest potential developments for diachronic construction grammar, while others seek to compare Construction Grammar with other cognitive linguistic theories, most particularly Word Grammar. The research reported in this volume presents a series of ways of looking at the relationship between constructions and patterns in English grammar, either now or in the past.

The book addresses scholars and advanced students who are interested in English grammar, constructional approaches to language, and the relationship between functional and formal issues in linguistic description and theory.

Author / Editor information

Graeme Trousdale and Nikolas Gisborne, Edinburgh University, Scotland.

Reviews

"In my opinion, the present volume admirably succeeds in engaging the reader in a truly illuminating and challenging reappraisal of CxG for the description of different areas of English grammar, including, as rightly pointed out by the editors (p. 173), levels of analysis often left unaccounted for by most construction grammarians, such as phonology. This collective work offers new insights into relevant long-standing phenomena (...)."
Francisco Gonzálvez-Garcia in: English Language and Linguistics 14.1/2010

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
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Constructional approaches to language-particular description Nikolas Gisborne and Graeme Trousdale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The English gerund
Gerunds, categories and constructions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Approaches to the English gerund Bas Aarts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Constructions in grammaticalization and lexicalization: Evidence from the history of a composite predicate construction in English Graeme Trousdale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
2. Constructions and corpora
Corpus approaches to constructions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
English relative clauses and Construction Grammar: A topic which preposition placement can shed light on? Thomas Hoffmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Shall and shan t in contemporary English – a case of functional condensation Alexander Bergs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Constraints on the attributive use of “predicative-only” adjectives: A reassessment Julia Schlüter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
3. Constructions and lexicalism
Constructions and lexical approaches Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Antitransitivity and constructionality Andrew Rosta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Dependencies are constructions: A case study in predicative complementation Nikolas Gisborne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Word Grammar and Construction Grammar Richard Hudson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Researchers and Advanced Students of English Grammar, Construction Grammar and Cognitive Linguistics
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 310
Illustrations
- Other: Num. figs.
Keywords: English /language; Cognitive Linguistics

eBook

Published: August 27, 2008
ISBN: 9783110199178

Hardcover

Published: July 15, 2008
ISBN: 9783110196269