Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar
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The papers in this volume provide a contrastive application of Construction Grammar. By referencing a well-described constructional phenomenon in English, each paper provides a solid foundation for describing and analyzing its constructional counterpart in another language. This approach shows that the semantic description (including discourse-pragmatic and functional factors) of an English construction can be regarded as a first step towards a "tertium comparationis" that can be employed for comparing and contrasting the formal properties of constructional counterparts in other languages. Thus, the meaning pole of constructions should be regarded as the primary basis for comparisons of constructions across languages – the form pole is only secondary. This volume shows that constructions are viable descriptive and analytical tools for cross-linguistic comparisons that make it possible to capture both language-specific (idiosyncratic) properties as well as cross-linguistic generalizations.
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 10] 2010. vii, 244 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments | pp. vii–viii
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Comparing constructions across languagesHans C. Boas | pp. 1–20
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Comparing comparatives: A corpus-based study of comparative constructions in English and SwedishMartin Hilpert | pp. 21–42
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Contrasting constructions in English and Spanish: The influence of semantic, pragmatic, and discourse factorsFrancisco Gonzálvez-García | pp. 43–86
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Conditional constructions in English and RussianOlga Gurevich | pp. 87–102
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Results, cases, and constructions: Argument structure constructions in English and FinnishJaakko Leino | pp. 103–136
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A contrastive study of the caused-motion and ditransitive constructions in English and Thai: Semantic and pragmatic constraintsNapasri Timyam and Benjamin K. Bergen | pp. 137–168
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On expressing measurement and comparison in English and JapaneseYoko Hasegawa, Russell Lee-Goldman, Kyoko Ohara, Seiko Fujii and Charles J. Fillmore | pp. 169–200
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Revising Talmy’s typological classification of complex event constructionsWilliam A. Croft, Jóhanna Barðdal, Willem B. Hollmann, Violeta Sotirova and Chiaki Taoka | pp. 201–236
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Index of constructions | pp. 237–238
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Index of languages | pp. 239–240
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Author index | pp. 241–242
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Subject index | pp. 243–244
“All in all, Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar is a highly welcomed collection of studies that brings together the contrastive approach and the Construction Grammar approach. It highlights the primary role played by the semantic/functional/notional pole of constructions in linguistic research and theorizing, and presents cases of application of Construction Grammar to cross-linguistic investigation. This is the first book of its kind, and will be a recommended reading both for cognitive-functional linguists, typologists, students in the above fields, and scholars in related disciplines such as translatology and communication studies.”
Wei-lun Lu, Masaryk University, in Studies in Language Vol. 38:2 (2014), pp. 413-420
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2013. Explanation and Constructions: Response to Adger. Mind & Language 28:4 ► pp. 479 ff.
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Gonzálvez-García, Francisco
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Gonzálvez-García, Francisco
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Östman, Jan-Ola
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2022. Book reviews. Yearbook of Phraseology 13:1 ► pp. 189 ff.
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General