Article published in:
The Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based ResearchEdited by Timothy Colleman, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics 34] 2020
► pp. 235–247
Concessive conditionals as a family of constructions
Torsten Leuschner | Ghent University
This squib sketches an approach to concessive conditionals (CCs) from the perspective of Radical Construction
Grammar (Croft 2001). It brings earlier functional-typological work on CCs to bear on
language-particular constructionist analyses of CCs, using the notions of ‘family (of constructions)’ and ‘prototype’ as the bridge.
After suggesting how these notions can be applied to CCs under a functional-typological approach, the structure of the CC
sub-constructicon in German is discussed, and directions for future research are offered to round the squib off.
Keywords: concessive conditional, radical construction grammar, family of constructions, family resemblances, prototype, sentence type
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Concessive Conditionals: ‘Family’ and Family Resemblances
- 3.CCs and prototypes: A typological perspective
- 4.Concessive conditionals in the constructicon: The view from German
- 5.Concluding remarks
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Published online: 28 May 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.00049.leu
https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.00049.leu
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