Construction Grammars

Cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions

Editors

Jan-Ola Östman | University of Helsinki

Mirjam Fried | Princeton University

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The notion ‘construction’ has become indispensable in present-day linguistics and in language studies in general. This volume extends the traditional domain of Construction Grammar (CxG) in several directions, all with a cognitive basis. Addressing a number of issues (such as coercion, discourse patterning, language change), the contributions show how CxG must be part and parcel of cognitively oriented studies of language, including language universals. The volume also gives informative accounts of how the notion ‘construction’ is developed in approaches that are conceptually close to, and relatively compatible with, CxG: Conceptual Semantics, Word Grammar, Cognitive Grammar, Embodied Construction Grammar, and Radical Construction Grammar.

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 3] 2005. viii, 325 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.3

Table of Contents

The Cognitive grounding of Constructional Grammar

Jan-Ola Östman and Mirjam Fried | pp. 1–13

Theoretical extensions

Argument realization: The role of constructions, lexical semantics and discourse factors

Adele E. Goldberg | pp. 17–43

Entity and event coercion in a symbolic theory of syntax

Laura A. Michaelis | pp. 45–88

Frames, profiles and constructions: Two collaborating CGs meet the Finnish Permissive Construction

Jaakko Leino | pp. 89–120

Construction Discourse: A prolegomenon

Jan-Ola Östman | pp. 121–144

Construction Grammars

Embodied Construction Grammar in simulation-based language understanding

Benjamin K. Bergen and Nancy Chang | pp. 147–190

Constructions in Conceptual Semantics

Urpo Nikanne | pp. 191–242

Constructions in Word Grammar

Jasper Holmes and Richard A. Hudson | pp. 243–272

Logical and typological arguments for Radical Construction Grammar

William A. Croft | pp. 273–314

Subject Index | pp. 315–322

Index of constructions | pp. 323–324

“One of the strengths of this volume is without a doubt, the excellent overview and comparisons of the different formalisms available for construction grammarians, both unification-based formalisms and others. It is inspiring to see so many academics raise themselves above their own theoretical models in order to bring to the fore the commonalities and joint aspects of various different, although seemingly related, frameworks, as is evident here.”

Jóhanna Barddal , University of Bergen, Language Volume 84, number 2 (2008)

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