Bergs / Diewald Contexts and Constructions

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-272-8878-3
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 9, 255 Seiten

Reihe: Constructional Approaches to Language

This collection of original articles focuses on the function, role, and structure of linguistic and extralinguistic “context(s)” in relation to the notion of “constructions” and in construction grammar. It thus takes up and brings together two equally complex concepts of linguistics, which both encompass structural as well as pragmatic and discourse-oriented aspects. Although both notions – contexts as well as constructions – have been under intense discussion in linguistics during the last decades with a wide span of research interests, integrative studies of these aspects have been largely missing.
The eight papers presented in this volume explore the possibilities and risks of integrating context(s) into particular constructions and construction grammar in general. Topics range from particular language and construction-specific problems such as the "polysemy" of modal verbs in relation to context-sensitive constructions, to general technical analyses and proposals, including proposals for formalizing contextual features in constructional representations.
The volume will be of interest to scholars and advanced undergraduates interested in linguistic theory in general and in constructional, pragmatic and discourse-analytic approaches in particular.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bergs, Alexander

Diewald, Gabriele

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of contents

Contexts and constructions
Alexander Bergs and Gabriele Diewald

1–14
Part 1. Context in construction grammar

On de-limiting context
Marina Terkourafi

17–42
Constructions and context: When a construction constructs the context
José Deulofeu and Jeanne-Marie Debaisieux

43–62
Representing contextual factors in language change: Between frames and constructions
Mirjam Fried

63–94
Part 2. Interactional approaches

Grammatical constructions in dialogue
Per Linell

97–110
Interactional construction grammar: Contextual features of determination in dialectal Swedish
Camilla Wide

111–142
Part 3. Context and grammar

Contextual cues for particle placement: Multiplicity, motivation, modeling
Bert Cappelle

145–192
Conditionals and mental space set-up: Evidence from German word order
Ilona Vandergriff

193–212
Semantics and pragmatics in construction grammar: The case of modal verbs
Ronny Boogaart

213–241
Index of constructions

242
Name index

243–245
Subject index

246–248