Linking constructions into functional linguistics : the role of constructions in grammar

Linking constructions into functional linguistics : the role of constructions in grammar /

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 Constructiona...

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Other Authors: Nolan, Brian, 1952- (Editor), Diedrichsen, Elke (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]
Series:Studies in language companion series ; v. 145.
Subjects:
Construction grammar.
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Linking Constructions into Functional Linguistics
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • References
  • Controller-controllee relations in purposive constructions
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Defining purpose and rationale clauses
  • 3. Purposive constructions within RRG revisited
  • 3.1 Tendencies for the controller-controllee relations
  • 3.2 The lexical manifestation of the controllee
  • 3.3 Structural and inherent control relations
  • 4. A constructional schema for purpose clauses
  • 5. Final remarks
  • References
  • Transitivity, constructions, and the projection of argument structure in RRG
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Transitivity in English and Tepehua
  • English: Underspecified transitivity
  • Tepehua: Fully specified transitivity
  • Transitivity of borrowed forms
  • 3. Accommodating argument structure
  • Dative construction
  • Verb-verb compound construction
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
  • Constructions in RRG
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Previous studies
  • 2.1 Tsujimura (2005)
  • 2.2 Kageyama (2007)
  • 3. Intransitive mimetic verbs
  • 3.1 Constructions in RRG
  • 3.2 Semantics-to-syntax linking
  • 4. Transitive mimetic verbs
  • 4.1 Transitivity of mimetic verbs
  • 4.2 The body-part + mimetic-sase construction
  • 4.3 The colloquial mimetic-suru construction
  • 4.4 Syntax-to-semantics linking
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
  • A constructional perspective on clefting in Persian
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A survey of cleft literature
  • 3. RRG treatment of clefts in Persian
  • 4. Extraposition vs. clefting
  • 5. Grammatical relations in cleft constructions
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Radical Role and Reference Grammar (RRRG)
  • 0. Introduction
  • 1. Theoretical and methodological considerations
  • 2. Consequences for the organization of RRG.
  • 3. Towards a radical role and reference grammar
  • 4. The activity hierarchy
  • 4.1 The activity hierarchy at the lexical level
  • 4.2 Activity hierarchy and constructional schemas
  • 5. Conclusion and outlook
  • References
  • Constructions as grammatical objects
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The role of constructions in RRG
  • 3. Viewing a construction in a construction repository
  • 3.1 Construction internal architecture
  • 3.2 Construction internal processing workspace
  • 4. Case study: The modern irish prepositional ditransitive constructions
  • 5. The factors that influence word order
  • 5.1 Syntactic weight
  • 5.2 Information structure
  • 5.3 Animacy and definiteness of referents
  • 5.4 The animacy, thematic and nominal hierarchies
  • 6. The Irish prepositional ditransitive constructions
  • 6.1 Characterising the ditransitive constructions of modern irish
  • 6.2 The verb thug 'give'
  • 6.3 Other three-place causative predicates
  • 6.4 What about 1.person or 2.person PN themes?
  • 6.5 Evidence from the topicalisation processes in Irish
  • 6.6 Other clause types with clause final theme
  • 7. Discussion and conclusions
  • References
  • Constructions in Role and Reference Grammar
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A brief overview of the status of constructions within RRG: The case of the resultative
  • 3. An RRG enriched constructional schema for the English resultative
  • 4. A family of constructions: A preliminary proposal
  • 5. Concluding remarks
  • References
  • WTowards a model of constructional meaning for natural language understanding
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Role and reference grammar and the lexical-constructional model
  • 3. FunGramKB
  • 3.1 Thematic frames and meaning postulates
  • 3.2 Lexical entries
  • 3.3 Constructional schemata
  • 4. Building constructional meaning in RRG with FunGramKB
  • 5. Conclusions and future research
  • 6. Acknowledgments.
  • 6.2 Three examples
  • 6.3 Conclusion
  • 7. Summary and conclusion of the paper
  • References
  • Web sources
  • Index.

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