Reconnecting form and meaning : in honour of Kristin Davidse / edited by Caroline Gentens [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gentens, Caroline, editor.

Series:

Studies in Language Companion

Studies in language companion vol. 230

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Functionalism (Linguistics).

Systemic grammar.

Cognitive grammar.

Semantics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2023]

Summary:

This volume is intended as a celebration of Kristin Davidse's work and its impact within the broad traditions of cognitive, functional and usage-based grammars.

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

Acknowledgements.

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

3.1 Preamble: constructional attrition as phenomenon and area of investigation

3.2 The decline of the deontic nci construction in the Late Modern English period

3.3 Constructional attrition in a radically usage-based based model of language (change)

4. Conclusion

Funding

Chapter 6. The compound pronouns someone/somebody and everyone/everybody in present-day spoken English: An analysis based on the Spoken BNC2014 corpus

2. Previous research reported in the literature

3. Aims of this study

4. Data and methodology

5. Someone and somebody

5.1 Frequencies in the corpus

5.2 Variation with age, gender, class and educational level

6. Everyone and everybody

6.1 Frequencies in the corpus

6.2 Variation with age, gender, class and educational level.

7. Collocation

7.1 Collocation with modal verbs

7.2 Collocation with adjectives

8. Discussion and conclusions

Section 3. Theoretical issues in functional linguistics

Chapter 7. Iconicity in spatial deixis: A cross-linguistic study of 180 demonstrative systems

2. Language sample and data collection

3. Iconicity and second formant frequency

4. Other types of iconicity

4.1 Tone

4.2 Vowel lengthening

4.3 Reduplication

4.4 Word length

Sample languages

Glosses and symbols

Chapter 8. A cognitive-functional approach to watch as a verb of perception

2. Literature review

2.1 Watch and its comparison with see

2.2 Aktionsart and telicity

2.3 Watch as a behavioural process

3. Methodology

3.1 Corpus pattern analysis

3.2 Additional analysis including telicity

3.3 Statistical analyses

4. Results and discussion

4.1 A semantic profile of watch

4.2 Aktionsart

4.3 Complementation and telicity

4.4 Watch as a behavioural process

5. Concluding remarks and future research

Chapter 9. Zero-marking or nothing to mark?: The case against absolutive 'case' in Gooniyandi

2. Overview of the absolutive case (marker) in Australian linguistics

3. Evidence of absence - and absence of evidence - of an absolutive case marker in Gooniyandi

3.1 Grammatical roles in Gooniyandi

3.2 The absolutive case does not exist in Gooniyandi

3.3 The absolutive in other Australian languages

4. Implications to the typology and theory of ergativity

5. Conclusions

Abbreviations and conventions

Chapter 10. Enation and agnation in multi-level models: The case for Functional Discourse Grammar.

1. Introduction

2. Relations within the language system: Enation and agnation

2.1 Subtypes of enation and agnation

2.2 Applications of agnation

3. Functional Discourse Grammar: Relevant features

3.1 Overall characterization

3.2 Four levels of analysis

3.3 Other important features

4. Enation and agnation in FDG

4.1 General observations

4.2 Enation and agnation at the Interpersonal Level

4.3 Enation and agnation at the Representational Level

4.4 Overlapping frames

4.5 Summary

5. Towards a more systematic approach to relations between linguistic elements

5.1 Interaction between IL and RL

5.2 Lexeme vs. structure?

6. Conclusion

Author index

Language index

Subject index.

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