[PDF] Can Construction Grammar Be Proven Wrong eBook

Author : Bert Cappelle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 24,37 MB
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1009343181

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Construction Grammar has gained prominence in linguistics, owing its popularity to its inclusive approach that considers language units of varying sizes and generality as potential constructions – mentally stored form-function units. This Element serves as a cautionary note against complacency and dogmatism. It emphasizes the enduring importance of falsifiability as a criterion for scientific hypotheses and theories. Can every postulated construction, in principle, be empirically demonstrated not to exist? As a case study, the author examines the schematic English transitive verb-particle construction, which defies experimental verification. He argues that we can still reject its non-existence using sound linguistic reasoning. But beyond individual constructions, what could be a crucial test for Construction Grammar itself, one that would falsify it as a theory? In making a proposal for such a test, designed to prove that speakers also exhibit pure-form knowledge, this Element contributes to ongoing discussions about Construction Grammar's theoretical foundations.

Author : Martin Hilpert
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 16,50 MB
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0748675868

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Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as knowledge of constructions, which are defined as symbolic units that connect a linguistic form with meaning.

Author : Thomas Hoffmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107013496

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A comprehensive cognitive account of English morphology and syntax that covers topics such as language acquisition and variation and change.

Author : Jóhanna Barðdal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 19,38 MB
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027268614

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Construction Grammar as a framework offers a new perspective on traditional historical questions in diachronic linguistics and language change: how do new constructions arise, how should competition in diachronic variation be accounted for, how do constructions fall into disuse, and how do constructions change in general, formally and/or semantically, and with what implications for the language system as a whole? This volume offers a broad introduction to the confluence of Construction Grammar and historical syntax, and also detailed case studies of various instances of syntactic change modeled within Construction Grammar. The volume demonstrates that Construction Grammar as a theory is particularly well suited for modeling historical changes in morphosyntax, and it also documents challenging new phenomena that require a theoretical account within any competing framework of syntactic change.

Author : Benoît Leclercq
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 17,11 MB
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1009273191

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Combining insights from two of the most influential approaches in linguistics, Construction Grammar and Relevance Theory, this book furthers our understanding of how meaning comes about. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Author : Thomas Hoffmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195396685

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This Handbook is the first authoritative reference work solely dedicated to the theory, method, and applications of Construction Grammar, and will be a resource that students and scholars alike can turn to for a representative overview of its many sub-theories and applications.

Author : Djatmika
Publisher : European Alliance for Innovation
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 33,62 MB
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1631902679

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ICCoLLIC is an international conference hosted by the English Department, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Sebelas Maret. This conference is arranged to become an annual conference making room for scholars and practitioners in the area of communication, language, literature, and culture to share their thoughts, knowledge, and recent researches in the field of study.

Author : Martin Hilpert
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,67 MB
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0748675884

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Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as knowledge of constructions, which are defined as symbolic

Author : Evie Coussé
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 33,17 MB
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027264163

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Grammaticalization research has increasingly highlighted the notion of constructions in the last decade. In the wake of this heightened interest, efforts have been made in grammaticalization research to more precisely articulate the largely pretheoretical notion of construction in the theoretical framework of construction grammar. As such, grammaticalization research increasingly interacts and converges with the emerging field of diachronic construction grammar. This volume brings together articles that are situated at the intersection of grammaticalization research and diachronic construction grammar. All articles share an interest in integrating insights from grammaticalization research and construction grammar in order to advance our understanding of empirical cases of grammaticalization. Constructions at various levels of abstractness are investigated, both in well-documented languages, such as Ancient Greek, Latin, Spanish, German, Norwegian and English, and in less-described languages, such as Manchu and Mongolian.

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3112316002

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