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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
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