Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar

Editor

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	vii–viii
Comparing constructions across languages Hans C. Boas	1–20
Comparing comparatives: A corpus-based study of comparative constructions in English and Swedish Martin Hilpert	21–42
Contrasting constructions in English and Spanish: The influence of semantic, pragmatic, and discourse factors Francisco Gonzálvez-García	43–86
Conditional constructions in English and Russian Olga Gurevich	87–102
Results, cases, and constructions: Argument structure constructions in English and Finnish Jaakko Leino	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	137–168
On expressing measurement and comparison in English and Japanese Yoko Hasegawa, Russell Lee-Goldman, Kyoko Ohara, Seiko Fujii and Charles J. Fillmore †	169–200
Revising Talmy’s typological classification of complex event constructions William A. Croft, Jóhanna Barðdal, Willem B. Hollmann, Violeta Sotirova and Chiaki Taoka	201–236
Index of constructions	237–238
Index of languages	239–240
Author index	241–242
Subject index	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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Subjects

Linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Syntax

BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax

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

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2010034264