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Construction Grammar across Borders
Edited by Tiago Timponi Torrent, Ely Edison da Silva Matos and Natália Sathler Sigiliano
[Benjamins Current Topics 122] 2022
► pp. 169–169

Subject index

A

  • absolute generalization 57–58, 62–63
  • abstract construction See under construction
  • accusative case 126, 129–132, 138
  • action-based formalism149
  • ActSpec (ECG) 161–163 ; See also Embodied Construction Grammar
  • adjacency 39, 41, 47, 50
  • adjective construction See under construction
  • adjective 10–11, 13, 19, 35–36, 60, 63, 71, 74, 77, 78, 84, 101, 108–109
  • adjectival 20, 101–103
  • adverb 96–97, 100–101, 123, 125, 131
  • adverbial 37, 101–102
  • affective 25, 29, 34
  • alignment-seeking function 110, 115
  • alternation 39, 60–61, 85
  • alternative subfunction28
  • anaphora 34, 157
  • anaphoric 100–103, 108–110
  • antecedent 13, 16, 31, 33–34, 96–97, 100–104, 108–111, 115–116, 156–158
  • apprehension 22–23, 29, 46
  • arbitrariness87
  • argument structure construction See under construction
  • argument:
    • slot84
    • structure 58, 64
  • assembly 2–3, 8, 10–12, 14, 16–18, 21–22, 28, 31, 34–39, 41, 45, 47, 50–52
    • element 21–22, 25
    • assembly-based representation 15, 18
  • attention 25, 69–70, 81, 87, 116, 155
    • locus of 32, 51, 32
    • focus of 12, 29
  • audiolingual120

B

  • Best-fit (ECG) 154–157
    • analysis154
    • approach155
    • metric155 See also Embodied Construction Grammar
  • BNC See British National Corpus
  • British National Corpus 68–71, 74, 76, 78

C

  • canonical construction See under construction
  • categorization 10, 18, 21–22, 26, 28, 134–135
  • cause 66, 70, 98, 120, 150–151
    • causation 23, 150, 152
    • causative85
  • CG See Cognitive Grammar
  • chain 16–17, 21, 45, 116, 152
  • child language 82, 85
  • clause:
    • clausal 11, 13, 21, 34–35, 37
    • clausal reference 25, 37, 39
    • co-activation 22, 28, 40
    • finite37
    • matrix 13, 19, 43
    • relative 13, 39, 41, 43
    • subordinate 75, 107
  • COCA See Corpus of Contemporary American English
  • Cognitive Grammar 8–11, 14–18, 21, 24, 28–34, 38, 41, 46, 50–52
  • cognitive:
    • grammar 2, 3, 8, 87
    • grounding3
    • linguistics 4, 56, 79, 122, 133–135, 148–150, 152, 159
    • organization82
    • salience 39, 45
  • collexeme 66, 126
  • collo-profile81
  • collocation 20, 58, 65, 67, 69, 80, 86, 88, 120–121
  • colloconstruction grammar See under grammar
  • collostruction 65, 66
  • collostructional analysis 3, 65, 66, 67, 69
  • communicative:
    • context96
    • function10
    • intention 85, 134
    • interaction 24, 34
    • purpose86
    • setting 119–120
    • situation 95, 120
  • complementation 61, 68
  • complex quantifier 13, 44
  • component:
    • element 19, 20, 23
    • structure 8, 9, 10, 20, 25, 49
    • subfunction 27–28
  • composite:
    • expression 8–9, 15, 20, 23, 33
    • semantic structure 11, 31, 45, 46
    • structure 8–10, 13, 17, 20–22, 25, 40–41, 43, 45–46, 50–51
    • structure profile12
  • compositional 13, 20–21, 33, 41, 98, 124
    • structure 9, 154
  • compositionality124
  • computational model148
  • conceptual:
    • categories134
    • content 10, 52, 102
    • framework150
    • grouping 39, 43, 45, 48
    • metaphor 125, 133, 159
    • reference 9, 11
    • structure 4, 15, 29, 164
    • substrate 29, 45
  • conceptualization 122–123, 132
  • concreteness 139, 160
  • connectionist 85, 148
  • constituency 10–20, 23, 39, 41–45, 47–51
    • tree 2, 7–8, 14
    • representation 14, 46
    • alternate 13, 43
  • constituent 10, 12–16, 38–40, 44, 46, 48–51, 83, 125–127, 154–155
  • construal 31, 43, 47–48, 135
  • constructicography 79–80
  • constructicon 79, 133
    • entry 79–80, 83
    • mental 78, 81, 84, 140
    • project 63, 79
    • reference 80–81, 84
  • Construction Grammar 1–5, 10, 56, 63, 79, 115–117, 121–122, 148–149, 152–155, 165
  • construction 3–4, 5, 7–10, 13, 21, 25–29, 33, 37, 56, 59, 62–70, 74–78, 80, 83–85, 96–116, 122, 124–126, 131, 133, 138, 151–154, 159
    • abstract 59, 87, 121, 124–125, 132–133, 139
    • adjective 67, 70, 73, 75
    • argument structure 64, 80–83, 86, 89, 155
    • canonical 8, 20
    • dialogical 95–100
    • discourse 33–34
    • ditransitive 60, 62, 65, 67–69, 79, 80, 83, 84
    • English Ditransitive 62, 66, 68, 69
    • grammatical 1, 13, 29, 79, 148
    • family 33, 77
    • lattice151
    • lexical 59, 64, 80
    • complex 126, 137
    • combination 59, 88
    • L1 122, 134
    • nice-of-you 70–71
    • relative clause 21, 50
    • schematic 3, 10, 56, 83
    • syntactic59
    • valency 63, 84
  • constructional:
    • analysis 2, 154, 155
    • analyzer 154, 155, 157, 158, 161, 163
    • change 3, 4, 96, 97, 105, 114, 116
    • instantiation 121, 132
    • meaning 76, 99, 115
    • schema 10, 13, 22, 33, 48
    • slot 63, 87
    • theory of language97
  • constructionalization 97, 114–116
  • constructionism135
  • constructionist:
    • approach 3, 135
    • framework56
    • program149
    • theories59
  • context 12, 22, 23, 28, 29, 34, 62, 70, 75, 84–85, 96–102, 109–116, 122, 133, 153–157, 160
    • context-free 110, 111
    • context-free use 115–116
    • bridging 106, 114
  • contrastive analysis120
  • core grammar See under grammar
  • core schema See under schema
  • coreference31
  • Corpus of Contemporary American English 57, 62, 77
  • corpus 3, 57, 60, 65, 67–68, 83, 85, 96, 105, 124
    • linguistics56
  • correspondence 3, 9, 10, 15, 17, 20, 22, 31, 44, 57, 62–63, 87
  • cross-linguistic 122, 132
  • CXG See Construction Grammar

D

  • dative:
    • alternation60
    • case 129, 130, 138
    • free dative137
  • deep semantics See under semantics
  • definite article 35, 40
  • demonstrative 35, 102
  • dependency 7, 14–18, 51
    • tree 2, 14, 16–17, 38
  • descriptive:
    • axis35
    • content28
    • element 36–37
    • framework 10, 16
    • function 12, 25, 35, 38
    • organization 34–39
    • target 29–32, 46–47, 51
  • determiner 11, 27, 36, 100, 102
  • developmental psychology 135, 150
  • Diachronic Construction Grammar 3, 116
  • diachronic56
  • dialogical construction See under construction
  • dialogical structure 115–116
  • direct object 68, 126
  • directional:
    • measure 67, 80
    • adverb 126–128
  • discourse construction See under construction
  • discourse 13, 21–22, 25, 28–29, 31, 34–36, 39–40, 52, 104, 111, 157
  • discursive 25, 30, 29, 31, 34–39, 41
    • function 25, 35, 38, 40
  • ditransitive construction See under construction
  • ditransitive 3, 56, 64–65, 70, 85, 68, 155
    • verb69
  • double standard 102–103, 107–108, 110–111, 115

E

  • ECG See Embodied Construction Grammar
  • elaboration site 10–11, 20, 47
  • ellipsis 13, 16, 17
  • elliptic108
  • elliptical 106, 115
  • embedded complement 23, 45
  • Embodied Construction Grammar 4, 147–152, 154–164
    • ECG2 framework 148, 151, 156, 160–163
    • ECG2 grammar 152, 155
  • embodied:
    • language152
    • learning139
    • meaning 148–149
    • methodology 139–140
    • schema 134, 157
    • teaching 136, 139, 140
  • embodiment 4, 122, 134–136, 139, 148, 162
  • emergence 20–21, 39, 41, 46–47, 50–51, 88, 114–116
  • emergent property 20, 31, 48
  • English Ditransitive Construction See under construction
  • entrenchment 21, 65
  • epistemic status 11, 25, 35
  • exemplar 85, 132, 133
  • extraposed 13, 19

F

  • fictive motion See under motion
  • fixed point 97, 109
  • focal participant See under participant
  • focus of attention See under attention
  • foreign language See L2
  • form-meaning:
    • mapping 121, 124
    • pair 81, 114, 154, 156
    • pairing 3, 8, 10, 19, 22
  • formalism 4, 149–153, 159–160
  • formalization 149–150, 159
  • FrameNet 79, 157
  • frames 5, 7, 45, 55, 95, 119, 147–148, 157
  • frequency value 71, 74

G

  • generalization 3, 56–58, 62–63, 79–89, 102, 114–115, 132–133, 138
  • generative grammar See under grammar
  • gerund 131–132
  • gradience 86, 97, 100, 104–106
  • grammar 2–4, 7, 10–18, 25, 34, 51–52, 56, 79, 82, 87, 114, 119, 129, 136, 148, 153–157, 161–163
    • core 2, 151, 163
    • colloconstruction3
    • generative 14, 17, 149
    • pattern68
  • grammatical:
    • behavior 11, 44
    • category 11, 14–15
    • constituent 13, 16, 21, 31, 45
    • construction 1, 13, 29, 79, 148
    • head15
    • pattern 1, 5
    • structure 1, 7, 8, 28, 36, 38, 45
  • ground:
    • grounded structure 12, 19, 35, 42–43
    • grounding 12, 27, 35, 42, 55, 102–103
    • grounding element 11–12, 19, 35, 37, 102
    • grounding predication 102–103
  • grouping:
    • scheme43
    • alternate 11, 41, 44

H

  • head 11–17, 35–37, 40, 43–45, 47–50, 123
    • head noun 11, 35, 44
    • head-dependent 15–16
  • hearer 29, 100–103, 112
  • hierarchy 8, 10, 20
    • hierarchical organization 14, 19, 21, 31, 40, 42, 45–46
  • human-robot interaction4
    • idiom 16–17, 87, 98

I

  • idiomaticity 59, 121
  • indirect object 68, 138
  • inflectional 100, 128
  • information structure 13, 28, 36
  • inheritance link 121, 124–125, 133
  • instantiation 22, 26, 28, 121, 124–128, 131–133, 138
  • interactional 95, 97, 116–117
  • interlocutor 11, 25, 29, 32, 35, 156
  • interrogative 96, 99, 106
  • intersective 97, 106
  • intersubjectification 3, 4, 96, 97, 115–116
    • intersubjective 95, 97–99, 111–113
    • intersubjective function 4, 25, 112–114
  • intersubjectivity 96, 111, 116
  • intonational contour105
  • item:
    • relatedness 57–58, 63
    • specificity 56–58, 82, 89
    • in-construction 3, 82, 84

J

  • joint attention 25, 35

L

  • L1 (mother tongue) 122, 133, 135, 139
    • construction 122, 134
    • learners65
  • L2 (foreign language) 56, 86, 119–122, 128, 131–136, 139
    • learning 119–122, 135
    • teaching 4, 79, 119–122, 135
  • language:
    • acquisition 56, 100, 134
    • change 2–3
    • formulaic121
    • learner63
    • learning 58, 67, 81, 131, 135, 153
    • meaning 148, 160
    • pedagogy 2–4
    • processing 147, 154
    • structure 22, 24, 28, 45, 52
    • teaching133
    • understanding 2–4, 147, 150, 156
    • use 60, 99, 159
  • learner 58, 81, 83, 120–122, 131–136, 138–140
  • level of organization 8–10, 15, 18, 25, 47 ; See also hierarchy
  • lexical:
    • approach4
    • coding29
    • construction 59, 64, 80
    • content16
    • entry80
    • head 15, 16
    • item 56, 79
    • meaning76
    • phrase 120–121
    • unit 57, 80
    • verb37
  • lexicalization 122, 131–132
  • lexicography 79–80
  • lexicographer 56–57
  • lexicon 10, 25, 28, 52, 81–82, 162
  • lexicon lexis 56, 79
  • linguistic:
    • knowledge 82, 97
    • meaning 23, 29, 31, 52
    • structure 18, 21, 24, 28–29, 34
    • theory 21, 87
  • linguistics 1–5, 55–56, 116, 149, 153–154, 162
    • computational linguistics151
  • locus of attention See under attention

M

  • manner of motion See under motion
  • matrix clause See under clause
  • meaning:
    • constructional 76, 99
    • elements of75
    • compositional115
    • critical 96, 101, 105, 108–109
    • embodied 148–149
    • lexical76
    • linguistic 23, 31
    • prototypical 131–132
    • scalar101
    • schematic 8, 27
  • mental constructicon See under constructicon
  • mental:
    • access23
    • representation 84, 122
    • space 45–46
  • metaphor 8, 33, 121, 125, 128–133, 139, 152, 156, 159
  • metaphorical extension 125, 133
  • metonymy 43–44, 20, 108, 110, 115, 125, 139
  • modal 37, 102
  • model of language 56, 155
  • modifier 11–13, 16, 35–37, 44, 39, 58
  • monotransitive 69, 84
  • morpheme23
  • morphology 10, 28, 52, 57–58, 64, 114
  • morphosyntax 114–116, 128, 130
  • mother tongue See L1
  • motion 48–47, 124–132, 135, 138, 150, 152, 155
    • fictive motion 125, 129
    • manner of motion 131–132
    • spatial motion 124–125
  • multi-word 59, 80, 164

N

  • native speaker 87, 122–123, 135
  • Natural Language Understanding 147, 149, 156, 160–163
  • natural language 147, 149, 160
  • natural path23
  • negative entrenchment65
  • neural computation 147–148
  • Neural Theory of Language 148, 155, 162
  • neurolinguistic 56, 134
  • NLU See Natural Language Understanding
  • nominal:
    • bare 99–100
    • expression 8, 11, 29
    • head 11, 13
    • phrase123
    • profile21
    • reference 25, 27–28, 41
    • referent 11–12, 16–17, 33, 35, 43
  • non-alternating 60–61
  • non-compositional 96, 98, 101, 109, 115, 125, 128
  • non-restrictive 13, 19, 35, 36
  • noun 11, 13, 27, 39, 43, 68, 101, 123, 127, 128, 152
    • phrase (NP) 57, 61–62, 85
  • NTL See Neural Theory of Language

O

  • ontological-category164
  • ordinary question 106–108, 115

P

  • paradigmatic relation 10, 22, 28
  • participant:
    • central9
    • focal 11, 37
  • pattern 4, 10, 13, 33–34, 57, 61–63, 67–68, 96, 98, 119–122, 134–136
    • canonical98
    • grammatical 5, 67
    • L2 patterns135
    • lexicalization 122, 131–132
    • of activity 21, 52
    • of neural activation18
    • productive43
    • syntactic60
  • pedagogy 131, 134–135
  • phonological 9–10, 21–22, 23, 25–26, 28, 36–37, 39–41, 43, 45, 62
    • expression 8, 23
    • integration9
    • structure 10, 28, 39, 115
  • phonology 21, 28, 62
  • phrase tree 8, 11, 38
  • phraseology 56, 87
  • polysemy 76, 121, 125
  • postposition127
  • pragmatic 1, 5, 101, 106–107
    • function 109, 115
  • pragmatics107
  • pre-emption 64, 85, 86, 97
  • preposition 4, 69, 121–124, 126–131, 133, 136, 138
    • bare preposition 102–103
  • prepositional 56, 64, 68, 123, 131
    • phrase (PP) 10–11, 43, 47, 48, 101, 123–130
  • processing activity 18, 22–24, 52
  • processing time 22, 31
  • profile 9–17, 20, 25, 31–32, 37, 43, 45–46, 48–51
    • determinant 10, 11, 15, 17, 20, 25, 49, 81
    • profiled 17, 29, 31, 34–35, 152
    • profiled relationship 9, 11
    • profiling 9, 11
  • prominence 28, 37, 39
  • pronominal85
    • adverb 123–124, 131–132
    • anaphora 31, 34
  • pronoun 13, 16, 31, 33–34, 84, 102, 156–158
  • proper noun123
  • prosody 13, 28, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 50, 99, 104, 107, 108, 116
    • prosodic 13, 23, 41–43, 47, 50, 105–106
    • prosodic grouping 31, 37, 39, 40–42, 46–47
    • prosodic structure 45, 104
  • prototypical meaning See under meaning
  • prototypical 8, 48, 133
  • psycholinguistic154
    • approach quantifier 43–44, 126

R

  • raw frequency 66–67
  • reference constructicon See under constructicon
  • reference:
    • point 103, 116
    • resolution 156–157
  • referent 11–12, 25, 31, 34–35, 45, 75, 157, 164
  • referential function 27, 29, 30, 35–36
  • relative clause construction See under construction
  • relative clause See under clause
  • representational format 38, 51

S

  • salience 11, 20, 39–41, 47, 81
    • salient 9, 28, 34, 43, 48, 51, 132
    • salient substructure11
  • schema 21–22, 25–26, 28, 34, 100–101, 151–164
    • core schema 151–152
    • skeletal schema154
  • schematic process37
  • second language See L2
  • semantic:
    • analysis157
    • class 60–61, 87
    • compatibility59
    • content15
    • composition46
    • description 39, 61, 77
    • enrichment100
    • frames148
    • function 25, 28, 34, 40, 42–43, 48, 51
    • group 61–62
    • incompatibility 59, 87
    • inheritance121
    • integration9
    • pole 23, 25, 28, 39, 52, 149
    • relation 58, 77
    • schemas154
    • specification 152–153, 157
    • structure 23, 46, 52
    • type 159, 162
    • variation 97, 129
  • semantics:
    • deep153
    • logical 148–149
    • simulation153
  • SemSpec 152–161
  • seriality 13, 20, 45–47, 49, 51
  • slot 3, 56, 67, 81, 84, 86, 97, 101–102, 108, 121
  • social dimension 88, 95
  • source domain8
  • specializer (ECG) 157–158, 161, 163 ; See also Embodied Construction Grammar
  • specificity 10, 25
  • speech act 96, 106–107, 121
  • speech community 22, 88
  • stative verb See under verb
  • subfunction 26–27
  • subjectification 100–101, 105, 115
  • subordinate clause See under clause
  • subordinate context107
  • symbolic:
    • assembly 24–25
    • association 22–23
    • expression 24–25, 34
    • structure 3, 8, 10, 52
  • symbolization 10, 23, 28, 39, 52
  • syntactic:
    • behavior 60, 62, 100, 107
    • category8
    • construction59
    • pattern 60–61
    • structure82
    • variety 122–123, 128
  • syntagmatic relation 10, 22, 28
  • systemic organization 25, 26

T

  • teaching methodology 122, 134–135
  • temporal 8, 18, 20, 22, 23, 29, 31, 32, 39, 41, 42, 15, 123, 124, 125, 128, 133, 152
    • temporal dimension21
    • temporal sequence 9, 37
  • that-clause 64, 78
  • time scale 18, 22–23, 29, 31, 37, 46, 50
  • topic-comment 21, 23
  • trajectory 9–11, 20, 34, 37, 44, 96, 130, 152
  • transient 19–20, 22, 28, 31, 45
  • transitive 152, 158
  • tree (structure) 2, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 21, 25, 51, 151, 156

U

  • unacceptability 65, 88, 103
  • unification 9, 26, 34, 52, 26
    • unified 9, 10, 18, 22, 26, 31, 34, 52, 148–149, 152, 155
  • unpredictability 77, 84, 87
  • usage event 24–25, 28, 34, 82, 83
  • Usage-based Construction Grammar95
  • usage-based 55–56, 64–65, 85, 87

V

  • valency 57–58, 60, 64–65, 79, 89, 137
    • construction 63, 84
    • pattern 60–62, 68
  • verb 37, 56–57, 59, 60–61, 68, 69, 75, 78, 84, 86, 100, 114, 120, 130, 132, 137, 162
    • stative 59, 129–130
  • verb-framed language 131–132
  • wh-question 68, 155
  • window:
    • temporal32
    • of attention 32, 45, 46
    • processing 13, 18, 29, 31
  • Winograd Challenge 156–158
  • word:
    • formation 58, 64, 82
    • order 23, 41, 43
  • workbench (ECG) 154–156, 161 ; See also Embodied Construction Grammar

X

  • X-net (ECG) 149–150 ; See also Embodied Construction Grammar