Construction grammar in a cross-language perspective / / edited by Mirjam Fried, Jan-Ola Ostman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910963865103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, PA, : John Benjamins, 2004
• ISBN: 9786612255229; 9781282255227; 1282255223; 9789027294968; 9027294968; 9789027218223; 9027218226; 9781423764847; 1423764846
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 208 p
• Collana: Constructional approaches to language, , 1573-594X ; ; v. 2
• Classificazione: ET 350
• Altri autori (Persone): FriedMirjam; OstmanJan-Ola
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetti: Construction grammar; Linguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- 1. Historical and intellectual background of Construction Grammar -- 1. Preamble -- 2. A brief history of Construction Grammar -- 3. Cross-language and universal potential of Construction Grammar -- Notes -- References -- 2. Construction Grammar -- 1. Preamble -- 2. Main features of Construction Grammar -- 2.1. General properties -- 2.2. The Case Grammar connection -- 3. Arguments for Construction Grammar -- 4. The notion grammatical construction -- 5. Defining Construction Grammar -- 6. Working in Construction Grammar -- 6.1. Notational and analytical conventions -- 6.2. Feature structures -- 6.3. Unification in practice -- 6.4. Valence -- 6.5. Linking -- 6.6. ; Instantiation patterns -- 6.7. Ordering constructions -- 6.8. Unification and Inheritance -- 6.9. External vs. internal properties -- 7. Construction Grammar: Outlook -- Notes -- References -- 3. Predicate semantics and event construal in Czech case marking -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The dative-experiencer pattern -- 3. The accusative-experiencer pattern -- 4. The accusative construction as a grammatical idiom -- 5. Case marking and construction grammar -- 5.1. Constructional representation of DC and AC -- 5.2. Case marking -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 4. Lexically (un)filled constructional schemes and construction types -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Construction types and constructional schemes -- 2.1. Construction types -- 2.2. Constructional schemes -- 3. Data -- 4. Different construction types with a shared modal function -- 4.1. The Bi-Clausal Conditional construction -- 4.2. The Integrated Evaluative Conditional construction -- 4.3. From conditional constructions to the deontic modal function of 'obligation' -- 5. The Reduced Conditional construction.; 6. The source of the Reduced Conditional construction -- 6.1. Possible source 1: Fixed idiomatic expressions -- 6.2. Possible source 2: The Integrated Evaluative construction -- 6.3. Possible source 3: The Full Bi-Clausal Conditional construction -- 6.4. General source: The constructional scheme -- 7. The larger view of the proposed framework -- 7.1. Other linkers in the constructional scheme of 'obligation' -- 7.2. Other constructional schemes -- 8. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 5. On the interaction of information structure and formal structure in constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Preferred-Clause construction and the R-top template -- 3. The Right-Detached comme-N construction -- 3.1. The RDCN construction and the R-TOP template -- 3.2. Syntax and semantics of the RDCN construction -- 3.3. Information structure of the RDCN construction -- 3.4. Summary -- 4. Theoretical implications -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Index of constructions -- The series Constructional Approaches to Language.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from the early 1980's by Charles J. Fillmore and his associates. It also provides a succinct account of the historical and intellectual background of the model and shows how Construction Grammar can easily be applied to typologically very different languages and to a variety of language-specific phenomena. All of the contributors to the volume came out of the Fillmorean school at UC-Berkeley and have worked consistently on applying and further developing the model in various domains of linguistic analysis.The 'Thumbnail sketch' by Fried & Östman is the only extensive introduction published so far to Fillmorean Construction Grammar.