Reconnecting form and meaning : in honour of Kristin Davidse / edited by Caroline Gentens, University of Zurich ; Lobke Ghesquière, University of Mons ; William B. McGregor, Aarhus University ; An Van Iinden, University of Liège.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davidse, Kristin, honouree.

Gentens, Caroline, editor.

Ghesquière, Lobke, editor.

McGregor, William, 1952- editor.

Linden, An van, 1982- editor.

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v.230.

Studies in language companion series (SLCS), 0165-7763 ; volume 230

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Functionalism (Linguistics).

Systemic grammar.

Cognitive grammar.

Semantics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2023]

Contents:

Intro

Reconnecting Form and Meaning

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

General acknowledgments

Introduction. Reconnecting form and meaning: Lexis and grammar from cognitive-functional and usage-based perspectives

1. Introduction

2. Form and meaning in lexicon and grammar

3. Summary of the contributions

4. Envoi

References

Section 1. Information structure

Chapter 1. On the use of there-clefts with zero subject relativizer

2. There-clefts: Charting the territory

3. Delimitation and corpus retrieval

4. Overall frequencies

5. Enumerative specificational there-cleft

6. Quantifying-specificational there-cleft

7. Presentational-eventive there-cleft

8. Discussion: The discourse functions of there-clefts without relativizer

9. Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Chapter 2. Impersonal passives in English and Norwegian

2. Previous work

3. Material, method and classification scheme

3.1 Corpus

3.2 Extraction method

3.3 Classification scheme

3.4 Comparison and tertium comparationis

4. Contrastive analysis

4.1 Overall frequencies and patterns

4.2 Syntactic patterns

4.3 Process types in impersonal passives

4.4 Agency

4.5 Information structure

5. Translation correspondences

6. Concluding remarks

Corpus material

Chapter 3. Atopicality as the unmarked logical structure in Scottish Gaelic

2. Theticity and atopicality

3. Detopicalisation and unmarked structures in Gaelic

3.1 Subject accentuation

3.2 Subject inversion

3.3 Split structures

3.4 Incorporation

3.5 Verb nominalisation

3.6 Subject-object neutralisation

3.7 Interim conclusion

4. Marked categorical and thetic structures

5. Conclusion

Abbreviations

Section 2. Usage-based approaches to grammar and the lexicon

Chapter 4. On the rise of a marker of disaffiliation from Others' discourse

2. The theoretical approaches adopted

2.1 The model of Construction Grammar

2.2 The Diachronic Construction Grammar perspective

2.3 The approach to reported speech adopted

3. Data and methodology

4. The development of OBTW

4.1 The rise of OBTW1 uses

4.2 The rise of OBTW2 uses

5. Discussion

5.1 OBTW2 as an expressive

5.2 OBTW2 and mimicry

5.3 Reported speech and OBTW1 and OBTW2

6. Is OBTW coming to be constructionalized?

7. Conclusion

Corpora

Chapter 5. Towards a radically usage-based account of constructional attrition: Integrating subtractive language developments in the Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization model

2. A radically usage-based model of language (change)

3. The role of the individual in constructional attrition

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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9027254494

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Publisher Number:

40031626371

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