Argument structure in usage-based construction grammar : experimental and corpus-based perspectives / / Florent Perek, University of Basel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910480591103321
• Autore: Perek Florent
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2015]
• ISBN: 90-272-6875-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Collana: Contstructional Approaches to Language, , 1573-594X ; ; 17
• Disciplina: 415/.018
• Soggetti: Construction grammar; English language - Verb; Functionalism (Linguistics); Corpora (Linguistics); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Revised edition of author's Ph.D. dissertation - Verbs, Constructions, Alternations: Usage-based perspectives on argument realization (Universität Freiburg and Université Lille III, 2012).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Argument Structure in Usage-Based Construction Grammar; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1 Overview: Argument realization; 1.2 Usage-based linguistics; 1.3 Structure of the book; 1.3.1 Part I: Verbs; 1.3.2 Part II: Constructions; 1.3.3 Part III: Alternations; Part I. Verbs; Chapter 2. Usage-based perspectives on verb valency; 2.1 The verb in argument realization; 2.1.1 Projectionist approaches and their limits; 2.1.2 Constructional approaches; 2.2 The division of labor between verbs and constructions; 2.2.1 The problem of mapping form to meaning2.2.2 The need for richer lexical knowledge; 2.3 A usage-based account of verb valency; 2.4 Summary; Chapter 3. Empirical evidence for usage-based valency; 3.1 The hypothesis and its predictions; 3.1.1 The usage-based valency hypothesis; 3.1.2 Existing evidence: Verb biases in language comprehension; 3.2 Assessing cognitive accessibility; 3.2.1 Why these verbs?; 3.2.2 Design; 3.2.3 Stimuli; 3.2.4 Participants and procedure; ; 3.2.5 Results; 3.3 Comparison with usage data; 3.3.1 Data collection; 3.3.2 Valency distributions; Sell; Pay; Buy; 3.4 ConclusionPart II. Constructions; Chapter 4. The usage basis of constructional meaning; 4.1 The lexical origin of constructional meaning; 4.1.1 Constructions and constructional meaning; 4.1.2 Distributional biases and their significance; 4.1.3 Experimental evidence; 4.1.4 Evidence from corpus linguistics: Collostructional analysis; 4.1.5 Summary: The usage basis of constructional meaning; 4.2 Problems with the lexical basis of constructions; 4.2.1 The conative construction; Missed contact; Lack of affectedness; Lack of completion; Repetition; Lack of intentionality; 4.2.2 The semantics of the conative construction4.2.3 The conative construction in use; 4.3 Conclusion; Chapter 5. The importance of local generalizations; 5.1 Low-level schemas; 5.1.1 Varying degrees of schematicity; 5.1.2 The status of low-level schemas; 5.1.3 Conclusion: The importance of local generalizations; 5.2 Low-level schemas in the conative construction; 5.2.1 Verb-class-specific constructions; 5.2.2 Verb-class-specific collexeme analysis; Classification of verbs into semantic classes; Operationalization of verb meanings; Methods and results; Implementation of verb-class-specific collexeme analysis5.2.3 Verbs of ingestion; 5.2.4 Verbs of cutting; 5.2.5 Verbs of pulling; 5.2.6 Verbs of hitting; 5.3 Summary and conclusion; Part III. Alternations; Chapter 6. Alternations as units of linguistic knowledge; 6.1 Argument structure alternations; 6.2 Alternations in construction grammar; 6.3 Alternations as allostructions; 6.3.1 The allostructions model; 6.3.2 The dative allostructions; 6.3.3 The locative allostructions; 6.3.4 Experimental evidence for allostructions; 6.4 Alternation-based productivity; 6.5 Conclusion; Chapter 7. The usage basis of alternation based productivity