Corpus, cognition and causative constructions / Gaëtanelle Gilquin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilquin, Gaëtanelle.

Series:

Studies in corpus linguistics ; 39.

Studies in corpus linguistics ; 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corpora (Linguistics).

Causative (Linguistics).

Cognitive grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

English causative constructions with cause, get, have and make are often mistakenly presented as (quasi-)synonymous and more or less interchangeable. This book demonstrates the value of corpus linguistics in identifying the syntactic, semantic, lexical and stylistic features that are distinctive for each of these constructions. It also underlines the usefulness of providing corpus studies with a solid theoretical foundation by showing how corpus linguistics can be fruitfully combined with cognitive linguistics, which is used both as a starting point for the analysis (top-down approach) and as a framework within which to interpret the corpus results (bottom-up approach). From a methodological point of view, the study illustrates the complementarity of corpus and elicitation data, and offers tools and methods that could be used to investigate other syntactic structures. Finally, the book also has a pedagogical dimension in that it examines how the research findings can be applied to foreign language teaching.

Contents:

Corpus, Cognition and Causative Constructions

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication page

Table of contents

List of tables

List of figures

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. Corpus linguistics and theory

2.1 Corpus linguistics: Theory or methodology?

2.2 The place of theory: Bottom-up vs. top-down

2.3 Combining corpus linguistics and cognitive linguistics

2.4 Summary

3. English causative constructions

3.1 Corpus data: A semi-automatic method

3.2 Experimental data: Elicitation test

3.3 Combining corpus and experimental data

3.4 Summary

4. Causative constructions in action

4.1 The notion of action chain

4.2 The action chain of periphrastic causative constructions

4.3 Action chains in the corpus data

4.4 Action chains in the elicitation data

4.5 Summary

5. The syntax and semantics of causative constructions

5.1 No (more) synonymy

5.2 From data to database

5.3 Individual approach: Chi-square analysis

5.4 Global approach: Hierarchical feature selection

5.5 Syntactic and semantic features in the elicitation data

5.6 Summary

6. Defining the causative prototype

6.1 Prototypicality in cognitive linguistics

6.2 Prototypical causation

6.3 Linguistic validation of the models of prototypical causation

6.4 Cognitive validation of the models of prototypical causation

6.5 Explaining the discrepancies

6.6 Summary

7. Lexical co-occurrence in causative constructions

7.1 The co-textual approach

7.2 Methodology

7.3 Collocational profiles in the corpus data

7.4 Word clusters in the corpus data

7.5 The co-textual approach in the elicitation data

7.6 Summary

8. Collexemes in the effect slot

8.1 Periphrastic causative constructions: always safe?.

8.2 Collostructional analysis and the technique of multiple distinctive collexeme analysis

8.3 Lemma-based vs. sense-based approach

8.4 Methodology

8.5 Results of the sense-based multiple distinctive collexeme analysis and discussion

8.6 The effect slot in the elicitation data

8.7 Summary

9. The influence of register on causative constructions

9.1 Studying variation

9.2 Frequency according to register

9.3 Semantic and syntactic features in speech vs. writing

9.4 Lexical features in speech vs. writing

9.5 Summary

10. Causative constructions and foreign language teaching

10.1 Foreign learners: Lost in causative constructions

10.2 Lost in pedagogical tools

10.3 Grammatical unit

10.4 Summary

11. Conclusion

References

Appendix 1. Elicitation test

Appendix 2. Distinctive syntactic and semantic features of causative constructions

Appendix 3. Most frequent syntactic and semantic features of causative constructions

Author index

Subject index

The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612558689

9781282558687

1282558684

9789027288493

9027288496

OCLC:

648923780