Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective
Contributors: ??stman, Jan-Ola; Fried, Mirjam
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9789027294968; 9781282255227
Description: This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from the early 1980's by Charles J. Fillmore and his associates. It also provides a succinct account o.
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: Editorial page; title: Title page; title: LCC data; title: Table of contents; title: 1. Historical and intellectual background of Construction Grammar; title: 1. Preamble; title: 2. A brief history of Construction Grammar; title: 3. Cross-language and universal potential of Construction Grammar; title: Notes; title: References; title: 2. Construction Grammar; title: 1. Preamble; title: 2. Main features of Construction Grammar; title: 2.1. General properties; title: 2.2. The Case Grammar connection; title: 3. Arguments for Construction Grammar; title: 4. The notion grammatical construction; title: 5. Defining Construction Grammar; title: 6. Working in Construction Grammar; title: 6.1. Notational and analytical conventions; title: 6.2. Feature structures; title: 6.3. Unification in practice; title: 6.4. Valence; title: 6.5. Linking; title: 6.6. Instantiation patterns; title: 6.7. Ordering constructions; title: 6.8. Unification and Inheritance; title: 6.9. External vs. internal properties; title: 7. Construction Grammar: Outlook; title: Notes; title: References; title: 3. Predicate semantics and event construal in Czech case marking; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The dative-experiencer pattern; title: 3. The accusative-experiencer pattern; title: 4. The accusative construction as a grammatical idiom; title: 5. Case marking and construction grammar; title: 5.1. Constructional representation of DC and AC; title: 5.2. Case marking; title: 6. Conclusions; title: Notes; title: References; title: 4. Lexically (un)filled constructional schemes and construction types; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Construction types and constructional schemes; title: 2.1. Construction types; title: 2.2. Constructional schemes; title: 3. Data; title: 4. Different construction types with a shared modal function; title: 4.1. The Bi-Clausal Conditional construction; title: 4.2. The Integrated Evaluative Conditional construction; title: 4.3. From conditional constructions to the deontic modal function of 'obligation'; title: 5. The Reduced Conditional construction; title: 6. The source of the Reduced Conditional construction; title: 6.1. Possible source 1: Fixed idiomatic expressions; title: 6.2. Possible source 2: The Integrated Evaluative construction; title: 6.3. Possible source 3: The Full Bi-Clausal Conditional construction; title: 6.4. General source: The constructional scheme; title: 7. The larger view of the proposed framework; title: 7.1. Other linkers in the constructional scheme of 'obligation'; title: 7.2. Other constructional schemes; title: 8. Conclusions; title: Notes; title: References; title: 5. On the interaction of information structure and formal structure in constructions; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The Preferred-Clause construction and the R-top template; title: 3. The Right-Detached comme-N construction; title: 3.1. The RDCN construction and the R-TOP template; title: 3.2. Syntax and semantics of the RDCN construction; title: 3.3. Information structure of the RDCN construction; title: 3.4. Summary; title: 4. Theoretical implications; title: Notes; title: References; title: Index; title: Index of constructions; title: The series Constructional Approaches to Language