Productivity : evidence from case and argument structure in Icelandic / / Jóhanna Bardal

• Autore: Jóhanna Bardal <1969->
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 207 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 439/.695
• Soggetto topico: Icelandic language - Morphology; Icelandic language - Syntax; Icelandic language - Verb; Productivity (Linguistics)
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-190) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Productivity -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1.1 Aims and objectives -- 1.2 Construction grammar -- 1.3 Disposition -- Productivity -- 2.1 Senses and synonyms of productivity -- 2.2 The concepts of productivity -- 2.3 Definitions and measurements of productivity -- 2.3.1 Existing definitions and measurements -- 2.3.2 Predicting productivity -- 2.4 Syntactic productivity -- 2.5 Type frequency, schematicity and degrees of productivity -- 2.6 Summary -- New verbs in Icelandic -- 3.1 Case and argument structure in Icelandic -- 3.1.1 Type frequency -- 3.1.2 The semantics of the Nominative subject construction -- 3.1.2.1 Nom-Acc -- 3.1.2.2 Nom-Dat -- 1.2.3 Nom-Gen -- 3.1.3 The productivity of the Nominative subject construction -- 3.2 New verbs in Icelandic -- 3.2.1 Recent borrowings -- 3.2.2 Analogy and token frequency -- 3.3 Summary -- Notes -- Nonce verbs -- 4.1 The experiment -- 4.2 The findings -- 4.3 The semantics of the Dative subject construction -- 4.4 Summary -- Notes -- New verbs of communication -- 5.1 The Transfer, the Caused-motion and the Ditransitive constructions -- 5.1.1 The Transfer and the Caused-motion constructions -- 5.1.2 The Ditransitive construction -- 5.2 The questionnaire survey -- 5.3 The findings -- 5.4 Analogy vs. high type frequency -- 5.5 Summary -- Notes -- Old and modern Icelandic -- 6.1 Structural vs. lexical case -- 6.2 The present cognitive-functional CxG approach -- 6.2.1 Swedish -- 6.2.2 English -- 6.2.3 German -- 6.2.4 Icelandic -- 6.2.5 Vocabulary, language contact, type frequency and loss of case -- 6.3 Dative substitution in the history of Icelandic -- 6.4 The "blended" construction in English, Swedish and Faroese -- 6.5 Historical productivity -- 6.6 Summary -- Synthesis -- References -- Appendix A -- Modern Icelandic. ; Dat-Nom (11 types): -- Nom-Acc: -- Nom-Dat (188) -- Nom-Gen (24 types): -- Dative subject predicates (73 types): -- Accusative subject predicates (14 types): -- Genitive Subject Predicates (7 types): -- Old Norse-Icelandic -- Dat-Nom (33 types): -- Nom-Acc (173 types): -- Nom-Dat (105 types): -- Nom-Gen (21 types): -- Dative subject predicates (72 types): -- Accusative subject predicates (13 types): -- Gen subject predicates (7 types): -- Appendix B -- Nom-Acc: -- Nom-Dat -- Appendix C -- Name index -- Subject index -- Constructions index -- The series Constructional Approaches to Language.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Productivity of argument structure constructions is a new emerging field within cognitive-functional linguistics. The term productivity as used in linguistic research contains at least three subconcepts: 'extensibility', 'regularity', and 'generality'. The focus in this study of case and argument structure constructions in Icelandic is on the concept of extensibility, while generality and regularity are regarded as derivative of extensibility. Productivity is considered to be a function of type frequency, semantic coherence, and the inverse correlation between these two. This study establishes productivity as an emergent feature of the grammatical system, in an analysis that is grounded in a usage-based constructional approach, where constructions are organized into lexicality-schematicity hierarchies. The view of syntactic productivity advocated here offers a unified account of productivity, in that it captures different degrees of productivity, ranging from highly productive patterns through various intermediate degrees of productivity to low-level analogical extensions."--Jacket
• Titolo autorizzato: Productivity
• ISBN: 1-282-10483-7; 9786612104831; 90-272-8967-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826152303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Constructional approaches to language ; ; v. 8.