Corpora, Constructions, New Englishes : A Constructional and Variationist Approach to Verb Patterning / Samantha Laporte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laporte, Samantha, author.

Series:

Studies in corpus linguistics ; Volume 100.

Studies in Corpus Linguistics Series ; Volume 100

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Make (The English word).

English language--Verb.

English language.

English language--Syntax.

English language--Variation.

Construction grammar.

Corpora (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (419 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]

Summary:

"This book takes an integrated approach to the fields of Corpus Linguistics, Construction Grammar and World Englishes through a thorough constructional and corpus-based examination of the patterning of the versatile high-frequency verb make in British English and New Englishes. It contributes to Construction Grammar theory by adopting a verb-based, rather than construction-based, perspective on argument structure. This allows the probing of the interface between verb-independent generalizations and item-specificity from an underexplored angle that offers new insights into the shape of the constructicon. From a variationist perspective, it seeks to (i) identify features of New Englishes and gauge whether these features exhibit traces of conventionalization, and (ii) assess whether the degree of institutionalization of the New Englishes correlates with linguistic behavior, both from a social and cognitive perspective, thereby contributing to the budding effort to integrate the cognitive and social dimensions into the modeling of linguistic variation in World Englishes"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

List of abbreviations

List of tables

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. The World Englishes paradigm and New Englishes

Chapter 3. Structural nativization in New Englishes

Chapter 4. Construction Grammar meets Corpus Pattern Analysis

Chapter 5. Data and methods

Chapter 6. Establishing the native norm

Chapter 7. The schematic to substantive patterning of make across New Englishes

Chapter 8. General conclusion

References

Appendices. Appendix 1: The Lexically-Bound Constructions of make and their allostructions in ICE-GB

Appendix 1: The Lexically-Bound Constructions of make and their allostructions in ICE-GB

Appendix 2: The LBCs of make broken down by ASC in ICE-GB

Appendix 3: The LBCs of make broken down per ASC and their frequency in ICE-GB, ICE-HK, ICE-IND and ICE-SIN

Appendix 4: The syntactic profiling the Light Verb Construction: output of the mixed-effects regression models

Index

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

1240263161