Grammatical constructions : their form and meaning / edited by Masayoshi Shibatani and Sandra A. Thompson.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xvii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Summary:

In this collection a cast of distinguished contributors responds to and elaborates Charles Fillmore's and Paul Kay's "Construction Grammar." In contrast to the modular Chomskyan approach which treats grammatical constructions as epiphenomena, Construction Grammar works on the premise that constructions function as units of grammar in a way similar to words, and that their properties derive from complex interplays between lexicon, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.

Contents:

Inalienability and the interpretation of modified noun phrases / Claudia Brugman

Making one's way through the data / Adele E. Goldberg

Toward a description of Te-linkage in Japanese / Yoko Hasegawa

Conversational scorekeeping and the interpretation of conditional sentences / James D. McCawley

Interaction of factors in construal : Japanese relative clauses / Yoshiko Matsumoto

The situated interpretation of possessor-raising / Mary Catherine O'Connor

Applicatives and benefactives / Masayoshi Shibatani

Two ways to travel : verbs of motion in English and Spanish / Dan I. Slobin

Reasoning, mappings, and meta-metaphorical conditionals / Eve Sweetser

The windowing of attention in language / Leonard Talmy

The case for "effector" : case roles, agents, and agency revisited / Robert D. van Valin Jr. and David P. Wilkins

The interpreation of deverbal nominals in Tepehua / James K. Watters.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0198235399

OCLC:

33969509