Constructional approaches to English grammar / edited by Graeme Trousdale, Nikolas Gisborne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trousdale, Graeme, 1971-

Gisborne, Nikolas, 1966-

Series:

Topics in English linguistics ; 57.

Topics in English linguistics, 1434-3452 ; 57

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Grammar, Generative.

English language.

Construction grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Constructional approaches to language-particular description

1. The English gerund

Gerunds, categories and constructions

Approaches to the English gerund

Constructions in grammaticalization and lexicalization: Evidence from the history of a composite predicate construction in English

2. Constructions and corpora

Corpus approaches to constructions

English relative clauses and Construction Grammar: A topic which preposition placement can shed light on?

Shall and shan t in contemporary English - a case of functional condensation

Constraints on the attributive use of "predicative-only" adjectives: A reassessment

3. Constructions and lexicalism

Constructions and lexical approaches

Antitransitivity and constructionality

Dependencies are constructions: A case study in predicative complementation

Word Grammar and Construction Grammar

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612194702

9781282194700

1282194704

9783110199178

3110199173

OCLC:

476196965