Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar
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The papers in this volume provide a contrastive application of Construction Grammar. By referencing a well-described constructional phenomenon in English, each paper provides a solid foundation for describing and analyzing its constructional counterpart in another language. This approach shows that the semantic description (including discourse-pragmatic and functional factors) of an English construction can be regarded as a first step towards a "tertium comparationis" that can be employed for comparing and contrasting the formal properties of constructional counterparts in other languages. Thus, the meaning pole of constructions should be regarded as the primary basis for comparisons of constructions across languages – the form pole is only secondary. This volume shows that constructions are viable descriptive and analytical tools for cross-linguistic comparisons that make it possible to capture both language-specific (idiosyncratic) properties as well as cross-linguistic generalizations.
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 10] 2010. vii, 244 pp.
Publishing status: Available
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments | pp. vii–viii
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Comparing constructions across languagesHans C. Boas | pp. 1–20
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Comparing comparatives: A corpus-based study of comparative constructions in English and SwedishMartin Hilpert | pp. 21–42
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Contrasting constructions in English and Spanish: The influence of semantic, pragmatic, and discourse factorsFrancisco Gonzálvez-García | pp. 43–86
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Conditional constructions in English and RussianOlga Gurevich | pp. 87–102
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Results, cases, and constructions: Argument structure constructions in English and FinnishJaakko Leino | pp. 103–136
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A contrastive study of the caused-motion and ditransitive constructions in English and Thai: Semantic and pragmatic constraintsNapasri Timyam and Benjamin K. Bergen | pp. 137–168
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On expressing measurement and comparison in English and JapaneseYoko Hasegawa, Russell Lee-Goldman, Kyoko Ohara, Seiko Fujii and Charles J. Fillmore | pp. 169–200
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Revising Talmy’s typological classification of complex event constructionsWilliam A. Croft, Jóhanna Barðdal, Willem B. Hollmann, Violeta Sotirova and Chiaki Taoka | pp. 201–236
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Index of constructions | pp. 237–238
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Index of languages | pp. 239–240
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Author index | pp. 241–242
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Subject index | pp. 243–244
“All in all, Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar is a highly welcomed collection of studies that brings together the contrastive approach and the Construction Grammar approach. It highlights the primary role played by the semantic/functional/notional pole of constructions in linguistic research and theorizing, and presents cases of application of Construction Grammar to cross-linguistic investigation. This is the first book of its kind, and will be a recommended reading both for cognitive-functional linguists, typologists, students in the above fields, and scholars in related disciplines such as translatology and communication studies.”
Wei-lun Lu, Masaryk University, in Studies in Language Vol. 38:2 (2014), pp. 413-420
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Baicchi, Annalisa, Roberta Facchinetti, Silvia Cacchiani & Antonio Bertacca
Boas, Hans C.
Boas, Hans C. & Ryan Dux
Boas, Hans C. & Francisco Gonzálvez-García
Boas, Hans C. & Alexander Ziem
Bosque, Ignacio
Bäckström, Linnéa, Benjamin Lyngfelt & Emma Sköldberg
Enghels, Renata & Kim Wylin
Fradin, Bernard
Gamallo, Pablo, Susana Sotelo, José Ramom Pichel & Mikel Artetxe
Gilquin, Gaëtanelle
Gilquin, Gaëtanelle
Gjerdingen, Robert & Janet Bourne
Gonzálvez-García, Francisco
Gonzálvez-García, Francisco
Gonzálvez-García, Francisco
Hartmann, Stefan
Hilpert, Martin & Jan-Ola Östman
Höder, Steffen
Lee-Goldman, Russell & Miriam R.L. Petruck
Lu, Wei-lun
Lyngfelt, Benjamin
Lyngfelt, Benjamin, Linnéa Bäckström, Lars Borin, Anna Ehrlemark & Rudolf Rydstedt
Lyngfelt, Benjamin, Tiago Timponi Torrent, Adrieli Laviola, Linnéa Bäckström, Anna Helga Hannesdóttir & Ely Edison da Silva Matos
Lyu, Siqi & Yi-na Wang
Madonsela, Stanley
Perek, Florent & Martin Hilpert
Rodríguez Arrizabalaga, Beatriz
Rostila, Jouni
Serbina, Tatiana
Verschueren, Jef
Östman, Jan-Ola
Čulo, Oliver
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Subjects & Metadata
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General