Extending the Scope of Construction Grammar

Constructions all the way everywhere: Four new directions in constructionist research From Construction Grammar(s) to constructionally informed linguistics Methodological advances Construction morphology Constructions in variation and change Constructions in interaction References I Methodological advances A radically data-driven Construction Grammar: Experiments with Dutch causative constructions The need for objective data-driven semantic classes1 Dutch causative constructions Semantic vector spaces Origin Practical implementation Different definitions of Context Data and design Data Distributional classes The objective criterion for the evaluation of classifications Results of the classification experiments Classification of the Causers Classification of the Causees Classification of the Effected Predicates Combined classes of three slots General discussion and conclusions References Automating construction work: Data-Oriented Parsing and constructivist accounts of language acquisition Introduction Data-Oriented Parsing Data-Oriented Parsing as a constructional learner DOP as a usage-based, constructionist model Analogy, acquisition and the unlearnable Meaning A U-DOP approach to learning meaningful grammars An experiment with artificial data Approaching the learner: whither p-DOP?Conclusion References II Construction morphology Affixoids and constructional idioms Introduction Affixoids and constructional idioms The need for constructional idioms Degrees of productivity Reinterpretation of affixoids Affixoids may lead to affixes Replication and borrowing Emphatic coordination Constructional idioms for bound lexemes Complex words as bound elements Allomorphy Phrases as bound constituents of compounds Conclusions References The survival and use of case morphology in Modern Dutch Introduction The purpose of this research A usage-based approach Data Case morphology in Dutch The adnominal genitive The xdery fragment The preservation of xdery A formal account of x der у Semantic agreement in xdery Morphological agreement in xdery A formalisation of xdery (Morpho-)pragmatic aspects of the use of xDer y: obsolete case morphology as a stylistic tool in Dutch and elsewhere Conclusions References III Constructions in variation and change Degeneracy: The maintenance of constructional networks Introduction Degeneracy Networks in Construction Grammar Horizontal constructional relations in syntax The position of finite verbs in Dutch clauses Case frames in Dutch experience predicates Subordination The diachrony of horizontal constructional relations Language change as a “threat” to horizontal constructional relations Case study 1: Case frames in Dutch experience predicates Case study 2: Subordination Conclusions Corpora used References Social and constructional diffusion: Relative clauses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch Introduction The change from d- to w-relativizers Background and hypotheses The corpus Diachrony and social diffusion Epistolary formulae and constructional diffusion Epistolary formulae as constructions Constructional diffusion Discussion and conclusions References The emergence of non-canonical degree modifiers in non-standard varieties of Dutch: A constructionalization perspective Introduction Four case studies Introduction Massa’s Dulzend Een partij Tig Theoretical discussion Conclusions and outlook References Conventional combinations in pockets of productivity: English resultatives and Dutch ditransitives expressing excess Introduction Absentees and occasional visitors in the English caused-motion pattern The caused-motion pattern seen as an argument structure construction The caused-motion pattern as a “pattern of coining” (Kay 2013)The Body Part Off Construction: a pattern distinct from the caused-motion pattern Some semantic properties of the Body Part Off Construction On Kudo’s (2011) pragmatic model of mental representation Excessive-semantics patterns in Dutch Conventionalization in the BPOC: evidence from the Corpus of Contemporary American English Conventionalization in the Dutch intensifying ditransitive: web-based evidence Further contrastive observations Discussion Conclusion References IV Constructions in interaction Und mit der Party, wie wollen wir das organisieren? Tying constructions with the preposition mit in German talk-in-interaction Introduction Forms and functions of m/ftying+ NP in German talk-in-interaction Non-attributive m/'ftying+NP Non-attributive m/ttying+ NP in the initial periphery Non-attributive m/ttying+ NP in the final periphery Integrated non-attributive m/ftying+NP Attributive m/'ftying+NP A usage-based model of m/ftying+NP as a construction Construction Grammar from a usage-based point of view A construction model of m/'ftying+NP Summary and conclusions References Appositions in monologue, increments in dialogue? On appositions and apposition-like patterns in spoken German and their status as constructions Introduction (Interactional) Construction Grammar Appositions in German The data Analysis Appositions in monological passages of talk Appositions in interactional passages of talk Appositions and Construction Grammar References Appendix: Transcription conventions (Selting et al. 2009)Constructions as resources in interaction: Syntactically unintegrated att 'that’-clauses in spoken Swedish Introduction Data, method of analysis and theoretical points of departure The connective att, clauses with att and previous studies of the phenomenon Aff-clauses with a paraphrasing function off-clauses with a reasoning function Discussion Conclusion Data References