Linking constructions into functional linguistics : the role of constructions in grammar / edited by Brian Nolan, Elke Diedrichsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nolan, Brian, 1952-

Diedrichsen, Elke.

Series:

Studies in language companion series

Studies in Language Companion Series ; 145

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Construction grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The paper will explore the theoretical scope of the concept "construction", as envisaged in Constructional approaches to grammar. Starting from the Role and Reference Grammar notion of Constructions, as represented in "Constructional Schemas", it will be argued that Constructional Schemas as representations of linguistic knowledge can be used not only for language specific constructions, but for the wide range of argument structure and sentence structure constructions as well. This will be exemplified by extensive discussions of two well known German construction types, which are the bekommen-passive, a passive three-place argument structure construction, and the bracket structure, which is a sentence structure pattern that forms the basis of many syntactic phenomena in German. It will be argued that the Construction in this sense is to be treated as a "grammatical object", whose use is systematically constrained by context factors and also by lexical-semantic factors. The Constructional Schemas give an extensive representation of the constructions by providing the constraints of their use, the constraints for their recognition in a stream of speech or writing, their syntax, their semantics, morphology and pragmatics. The model of constructional schemas caters for real-time processing in a workspace. The notion of constructional knowledge for the processing of linguistic utterances is then taken a step further and expanded to include constructions whose use and functionality is not mainly based on grammatical knowledge, but rather on cultural knowledge. Some "idioms" do not "work" on their own, but require a very subtle mix of culturally acquired background knowledge and situational factors, and their use is deeply embedded in basic behavioural patterns in a society of speakers. I will introduce three speech act constructions, which do not

exhibit the form-function correlation that is generally described for the linguistic realisation of illocutionary force, and explain their pragmatic effects by adhering to Dawkin's notion of the cultural unit "meme" and Wittgenstein's idea of "life form".

Contents:

Controller-controllee relations in purposive constructions: A construction-based account / Lilián Guerrero

Transitivity, constructions, and the projection of argument structure in RRG /James K. Watters

Constructions in RRG: A case study of mimetic verbs in Japanese / Kiyoko Toratani

A constructional perspective on clefting in Persian: An insight into differentiating between emphatic and deictic in / Farhad Moezzipour

Radical Role and Reference Grammar (RRRG): A sketch for remodelling the Syntax-Semantics-Interface / Rolf Kailuweit

Constructions as grammatical objects: A case study of the prepositional ditransitive construction in Modern Irish / Brian Nolan

Constructions in Role and Reference Grammar: The case of the English resultative / Rocío Jiménez-Briones and Alba Luzondo Oyón

Towards a model of constructional meaning for natural language understanding / Carlos Periñán-Pascual

Meaning construction, meaning interpretation and formal expression in the Lexical Constructional Model / Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

Constructions in the Lexical Constructional Model / Christopher S. Butler

From idioms to sentence structures and beyond: The theoretical scope of the concept "Construction" / Elke Diedrichsen.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 11, 2013).

ISBN:

9789027271082

9027271089

OCLC:

870994252