Corpora, Constructions, New Englishes : A Constructional and Variationist Approach to Verb Patterning

• Autore: Laporte Samantha
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2021; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (419 pages)
• Disciplina: 425.6
• Soggetto topico: Make (The English word); English language - Verb; English language - Syntax; English language - Variation; Construction grammar; Corpora (Linguistics)
• Sommario/riassunto: "This book takes an integrated approach to the fields of Corpus Linguistics, Construction Grammar and World Englishes through a thorough constructional and corpus-based examination of the patterning of the versatile high-frequency verb make in British English and New Englishes. It contributes to Construction Grammar theory by adopting a verb-based, rather than construction-based, perspective on argument structure. This allows the probing of the interface between verb-independent generalizations and item-specificity from an underexplored angle that offers new insights into the shape of the constructicon. From a variationist perspective, it seeks to (i) identify features of New Englishes and gauge whether these features exhibit traces of conventionalization, and (ii) assess whether the degree of institutionalization of the New Englishes correlates with linguistic behavior, both from a social and cognitive perspective, thereby contributing to the budding effort to integrate the cognitive and social dimensions into the modeling of linguistic variation in World Englishes"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Corpora, constructions, new Englishes
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910794567003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Corpus Linguistics