Construction grammar in a cross-language perspective / edited by Mirjam Fried, Jan-Ola Ostman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fried, Mirjam.

Östman, Jan-Ola.

Series:

Constructional approaches to language ; v. 2.

Constructional approaches to language, 1573-594X ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Construction grammar.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

208 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from the early 1980's by Charles J. Fillmore and his associates. It also provides a succinct account of the historical and intellectual background of the model and shows how Construction Grammar can easily be applied to typologically very different languages and to a variety of language-specific phenomena. All of the contributors to the volume came out of the Fillmorean school at UC-Berkeley and have worked consistently on applying and further developing the model in various domains of linguistic analysis.The 'Thumbnail sketch' by Fried & Östman is the only extensive introduction published so far to Fillmorean Construction Grammar.

Contents:

Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

1. Historical and intellectual background of Construction Grammar

1. Preamble

2. A brief history of Construction Grammar

3. Cross-language and universal potential of Construction Grammar

Notes

References

2. Construction Grammar

2. Main features of Construction Grammar

2.1. General properties

2.2. The Case Grammar connection

3. Arguments for Construction Grammar

4. The notion grammatical construction

5. Defining Construction Grammar

6. Working in Construction Grammar

6.1. Notational and analytical conventions

6.2. Feature structures

6.3. Unification in practice

6.4. Valence

6.5. Linking

6.6. Instantiation patterns

6.7. Ordering constructions

6.8. Unification and Inheritance

6.9. External vs. internal properties

7. Construction Grammar: Outlook

3. Predicate semantics and event construal in Czech case marking

1. Introduction

2. The dative-experiencer pattern

3. The accusative-experiencer pattern

4. The accusative construction as a grammatical idiom

5. Case marking and construction grammar

5.1. Constructional representation of DC and AC

5.2. Case marking

6. Conclusions

4. Lexically (un)filled constructional schemes and construction types

2. Construction types and constructional schemes

2.1. Construction types

2.2. Constructional schemes

3. Data

4. Different construction types with a shared modal function

4.1. The Bi-Clausal Conditional construction

4.2. The Integrated Evaluative Conditional construction

4.3. From conditional constructions to the deontic modal function of 'obligation'

5. The Reduced Conditional construction.

6. The source of the Reduced Conditional construction

6.1. Possible source 1: Fixed idiomatic expressions

6.2. Possible source 2: The Integrated Evaluative construction

6.3. Possible source 3: The Full Bi-Clausal Conditional construction

6.4. General source: The constructional scheme

7. The larger view of the proposed framework

7.1. Other linkers in the constructional scheme of 'obligation'

7.2. Other constructional schemes

8. Conclusions

5. On the interaction of information structure and formal structure in constructions

2. The Preferred-Clause construction and the R-top template

3. The Right-Detached comme-N construction

3.1. The RDCN construction and the R-TOP template

3.2. Syntax and semantics of the RDCN construction

3.3. Information structure of the RDCN construction

3.4. Summary

4. Theoretical implications

Index

Index of constructions

The series Constructional Approaches to Language.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612255229

9781282255227

1282255223

9789027294968

9027294968

9789027218223

9027218226

9781423764847

1423764846

OCLC:

614703493