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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815350203321

Titolo

Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar / / edited by Hans C. Boas, Francisco Gonzálvez García

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-272-6963-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Collana

Constructional Approaches to Language ; ; Volume 15

Disciplina

440/.045

Soggetti

Romance languages - Infinitival constructions

Romance languages - Resultative constructions

Romance languages - Grammar, Generative

Romance languages - Grammar, Comparative

Construction grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Applying constructional concepts to Romance languages; 1. Introduction; 2. Expanding Construction Grammar from English to other languages; 3. Comparing constructions in Romance languages: Diachronic issues; 4. Comparing constructions in Romance languages: Synchronic issues; 5. Overview of chapters; 6. Conclusions; References; 2. The role of constructional meanings in novel verb-noun compounds in Spanish; 1. Introduction

2. Experiment 1: A comprehension task3. Experiment 2: A production task; 4. Conclusions; Acknowledgement; References; 3. From lexicalization to constructional generalizations: On complex prepositions in French; 1. Introduction; 2. The (lexical) construction sous ('under'); 3. The Mediate Dependency Construction [= MDC]; 4. Additional restrictions: Towards substantive idioms; 5. Conclusions; References; Appendices; 4. A constructional corpus-based approach to 'weak' verbs in French; 1. Definition of 'weak' verbs and previous



approaches; 2. Weak verbs in contemporary spoken French

3. Weak verbs: Theoretical challenges and possible solutions4. Weak verbs as constructions; 5. The weak verb construction: A case of grammaticalization?; 6. Some concluding remarks; References; 5. The Narrative Infinitive Construction in French and Latin; 1. Introduction; 2. Root infinitives; 3. The properties of Narrative Infinitives; 4. How to approach Root Infinitives?; 5. Infinitival constructions; Abbreviations; References; 6. Bringing together fragments and constructions: Evidence from complementation in English and Spani; 1. Introduction; 2. Thompson's fragment analysis revisited

3. The subjective-transitive construction in English4. Where do Spanish verbless complement constructions fit in?; 5. Closing remarks and outlook; References; 7. A Romance perspective on gapping constructions; 1. Introduction; 2. Basic data on gapping; 3. The case for a construction-based analysis of gapping; 4. Parallelism constraints on gapping; 5. A construction-based analysis in HPSG; 6. Conclusion; References; 8. Variable type framing in Spanish constructions of directed motion; 1. Introduction; 2. An overview of previous research on manner of motion verbs; 3. The theoretical framework

4. The present study5. Conclusions and theoretical implications; References; Author index; Construction index; Language index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

Spanish constructions of telic motion with manner verbs are somewhat problematic for the Talmian typology, while also posing a challenge for constructionist frameworks anchored in English grammar. In response to Talmy (2000), Aske (1989), Morimoto (2008), and Beavers et al. (2010) among others, I demonstrate in this article that this construction type tends to be acceptable whenever the lexical meaning of the verb implies an element of directed motion. Drawing on Goldberg (2006) and Pedersen (2009, 2013), I suggest that schematicity is a typological parameter, and, more specifically, that the