Construction Grammars: Cognitive Grounding and Theoretical ExtensionsJan-Ola Östman, Mirjam Fried The notion 'construction' has become indispensable in present-day linguistics and in language studies in general. This volume extends the traditional domain of Construction Grammar (CxG) in several directions, all with a cognitive basis. Addressing a number of issues (such as coercion, discourse patterning, language change), the contributions show how CxG must be part and parcel of cognitively oriented studies of language, including language universals. The volume also gives informative accounts of how the notion 'construction' is developed in approaches that are conceptually close to, and relatively compatible with, CxG: Conceptual Semantics, Word Grammar, Cognitive Grammar, Embodied Construction Grammar, and Radical Construction Grammar. |
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
Construction Grammars 145 | 6 |
Further issues | 8 |
CHAPTER 2 | 17 |
Omission under low discourse prominence | 28 |
Ditransitives | 34 |
References | 40 |
ArgumentStructure constructions | 56 |
ECG in language understanding | 172 |
Concluding remarks | 185 |
CHAPTER 7 | 191 |
Is there a difference between Conceptual Semantics | 198 |
The instrumental elative constructions in Finnish | 210 |
Ablative case adjuncts in Finnish | 218 |
Explaining the relationships between the ABLconstructions | 231 |
The case system in Finnish | 237 |
Aspectual constructions | 62 |
References | 87 |
Two CGs | 93 |
Syntactic structure and conceptual structure | 113 |
CHAPTER 5 | 121 |
Frames of understanding | 129 |
dp representation | 135 |
Notes | 141 |
Embodied Construction Grammar in simulationbased | 147 |
A detailed analysis | 157 |
CHAPTER 8 | 243 |
Syntax without phrase structure | 250 |
A WG analysis of double objects | 260 |
What is a construction? | 270 |
From syntactic relations to symbolic relations | 287 |
From universal constructions to syntactic space | 303 |
121 | 311 |
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Common terms and phrases
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