Trousdale / Gisborne Constructional Approaches to English Grammar

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019917-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 57, 316 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]

This collection of articles brings together new research from both established and emerging international experts in the study of English grammar, all of whom have engaged with the notion of 'construction' in their work. The research here is concerned with both synchrony and diachrony, with the relationship between Construction Grammar and other linguistic theories, and with a number of issues in the study of grammar, such as raising and control phenomena, transitivity, relative clause structure, the syntax of gerunds, attributive and predicative uses of adjectives, modality, and grammaticalization.Some of the articles are written within a constructional framework, while others highlight potential problems with constructional approaches to English grammar; some of the articles are based on data collected from corpora, some on introspection; some of the articles suggest potential developments for diachronic construction grammar, while others seek to compare Construction Grammar with other cognitive linguistic theories, most particularly Word Grammar. The research reported in this volume presents a series of ways of looking at the relationship between constructions and patterns in English grammar, either now or in the past.The book addresses scholars and advanced students who are interested in English grammar, constructional approaches to language, and the relationship between functional and formal issues in linguistic description and theory.

Zielgruppe

Researchers and Advanced Students of English Grammar, Constructio

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trousdale, Graeme

Gisborne, Nikolas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;5
3;Constructional approaches to language-particular description;7
4;Gerunds, categories and constructions;13
5;Approaches to the English gerund;17
6;Constructions in grammaticalization and lexicalization: Evidence from the history of a composite predicate construction in English;39
7;Corpus approaches to constructions;77
8;English relative clauses and Construction Grammar: A topic which preposition placement can shed light on?;83
9;Shall and shan’t in contemporary English – a case of functional condensation;119
10;Constraints on the attributive use of “predicative-only”adjectives: A reassessment;151
11;Constructions and lexical approaches;189
12;Antitransitivity and constructionality;193
13;Dependencies are constructions: A case study in predicative complementation;225
14;Word Grammar and Construction Grammar;263
15;Backmatter;309

Über Autor(innen)

Graeme Trousdale and Nikolas Gisborne, Edinburgh University, Scotland.