Article published in:
Corpus-based Approaches to Construction GrammarEdited by Jiyoung Yoon and Stefan Th. Gries
[Constructional Approaches to Language 19] 2016
► pp. 11–38
A constructional perspective on conceptual constituency
Dutch postpositions or particles?
Cognitive Grammar distinguishes three types of constituents: phonological,
conceptual, and grammatical constituents. This study argues that this distinction
offers a new and promising perspective on constructions whose constituent
structure, or ‘constituency’, has seemed to defy analysis in the past. In particular,
the study proposes a method to analyze conceptual constituency, which crucially
relies on semantic considerations. The method is applied to constructions
from Dutch with adpositions whose syntactic status has been unclear: they have
been analyzed as postpositions by some, yet as particles by others. Using corpus
data rather than constructed data with grammaticality judgments, the study
concludes that the method provides new arguments for a ‘particle analysis’.
Published online: 08 September 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.19.02bel
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.19.02bel
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