Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar

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Hans C. Boas | University of Texas, Austin

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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

https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.10

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments | pp. vii–viii

Comparing constructions across languages

Hans C. Boas | pp. 1–20

Comparing comparatives: A corpus-based study of comparative constructions in English and Swedish

Martin Hilpert | pp. 21–42

Contrasting constructions in English and Spanish: The influence of semantic, pragmatic, and discourse factors

Francisco Gonzálvez-García | pp. 43–86

Conditional constructions in English and Russian

Olga Gurevich | pp. 87–102

Results, cases, and constructions: Argument structure constructions in English and Finnish

Jaakko Leino | pp. 103–136

A contrastive study  of the caused-motion  and ditransitive constructions in English and Thai: Semantic and pragmatic constraints

Napasri Timyam and Benjamin K. Bergen | pp. 137–168

On expressing measurement and comparison in English and Japanese

Yoko Hasegawa, Russell Lee-Goldman, Kyoko Ohara, Seiko Fujii and Charles J. Fillmore | pp. 169–200

Revising Talmy’s typological classification of complex event constructions

William A. Croft, Jóhanna Barðdal, Willem B. Hollmann, Violeta Sotirova and Chiaki Taoka | pp. 201–236

Index of constructions | pp. 237–238

Index of languages | pp. 239–240

Author index | pp. 241–242

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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2016. Review of Boas & Gonzálvez-García (2014): Romance perspectives on Construction Grammar. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 14:1 ► pp. 235 ff.

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Gonzálvez-García, Francisco

2017. Chapter 5. Exploring inter-constructional relations in the constructicon. In Constructing Families of Constructions [Human Cognitive Processing, 58], ► pp. 135 ff.

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2018. Taming iconicity in the Spanish and Italian translations of Shakespeare’sSonnets. English Text Construction 11:1 ► pp. 105 ff.

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BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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