Constructions at the crossroads

The place of construction grammar between field and frame

Dylan Glynn | Institut Charles V, Université Paris 7

Construction Grammar focuses on the meaning encoded in the syntagmatic structures of language. However, syntagmatic meaning and coding interact in a complex way with paradigmatic structures such as lexis, metonymy, and metaphor. How can Construction Grammar capture the formal and semantic structure of entrenched schematic constructions while rigorously accounting for all these parameters? Based on the analysis of the conceptual domain of ‘stealing’ in English, this study demonstrates that through combining three different approaches to linguistic structure, the study of the semantic frame, the cognitive model, and the onomasiological lexical field, we can more properly appreciate and explain lexical, metaphoric, and constructional interplay.

Keywords: construction grammar, lexical field, frame semantics, conceptual metaphor, verbs of ‘stealing’

Published online: 11 January 2005
https://doi.org/10.1075/arcl.2.07gly

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