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05
[I]t furnishes the reader with an overview of the possibilities of corpus methods in a constructional approach to language. In doing so, it provides inspiration to linguists working in Construction Grammar on how to choose the appropriate corpus technique from an ever-growing methodological toolbox. Meanwhile, the theoretical implications of the contributions show how we are steadily making scientific progress as a field. Corpus researchers are offered with examples of how to embed their analyses within the framework of Construction Grammar.
Dirk Pijpops, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), University of Leuven, in Constructions and Frames, 9:2 (2017)
05
Yoon and Gries‘ collection testifies to the manifestation of a new stage in the field of usage-based linguistics, contributing to the further establishment of data-based linguistic theorizing within the framework of CxG. The studies assembled are mainly based on data from languages other than English, including a diachronic perspective and they show how empirical methods can be tailored effectively to the issues and phenomena investigated. The gain is twofold: Firstly, the analysis of non-English data adds to the generalizability of (language-specific) usage-based findings, and secondly, the choice of effective quantitative methods offered highlights/demonstrates their great potential for empirical research into the nature of language.
Doris Schönefeld, University of Leipzig
05
Patterns of usage are only partially accessible to introspection. Usage-based approaches to language structure thus require the retrieval and assessment of actual usage data. This shift from introspection to corpus-linguistic methods has turned the study of syntax into a thoroughly empirical enterprise, initiating the "Quantitative Turn" in (cognitive) linguistic research. The contributions to this volume testify not only to the increased methodological repertoire now at the disposal of grammarians interested in a variety of languages other than English, but also to the fact that construction grammar provides a framework capable of reflecting how linguistic systems arise from speaker's experience of language in use.
Beate Hampe, University of Erfurt
05
Yoon and Gries’ volume brings together a range of exciting new research that is sure to inspire both corpus linguists and practitioners of Construction Grammar. The chapters are exemplary in their adaptation and imaginative application of corpus-based methodologies to the elucidation of syntactic and semantic patterning in English and languages other than English. Taken as a whole, the volume makes a compelling and eloquent case for corpus-based Construction Grammar and represents an important milestone in the continuing evolution of Construction Grammar approaches.
John Newman, University of Alberta
05
This excellent volume showcases the benefits of applying corpus linguistic methods to theoretical questions in Construction Grammar. Yoon and Gries have brought together eight highly interesting studies that address a wide range of grammatical phenomena, including adpositions, light verbs, case marking, complementation, and causation, which are studied across several Romance and Germanic languages. The volume thus nicely illustrates the whole breadth and depth of corpus-based constructional analyses.
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University of North Texas
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Stefan Th. Gries
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University of California, Santa Barbara
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A constructional perspective on conceptual constituency
A
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Dutch postpositions or particles?
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Maaike Beliën
Beliën, Maaike
Maaike
Beliën
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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
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Development and representation of Italian light-<italic>fare</italic> constructions
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Valeria Quochi
Quochi, Valeria
Valeria
Quochi
01
This contribution analyzes the development and use of light fare ‘do’ constructions
in Child-directed Speech and in Child Language with the twofold goal
of showing that a Construction Grammar approach is viable, and of providing
support to usage-based, functional predictions on language acquisition. The
analysis of naturalistic data derived from the CHILDES database lead to two
main findings: first, a representation of fare Light Verb Constructions as a family
of constructions organized like a radial category is possible, second, there
exists a fare pivot schema that children generalize at an early stage because it
serves the purpose of naming new events, activities or situations.
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102
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Article
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Constructions with subject <italic>vs</italic>. object experiencers in Spanish and Italian
A corpus-based approach
1
A01
Victoria Vázquez Rozas
Vázquez Rozas, Victoria
Victoria
Vázquez Rozas
University of Santiago de Compostela
2
A01
Viola G. Miglio
Miglio, Viola G.
Viola G.
Miglio
University of California, Santa Barbara
01
This study analyzes Spanish and Italian clauses that denote processes or states
of feeling or emotion involving two participants, an experiencer and a stimulus.
Some of these clauses construe the experiencer as Subject and the stimulus as
Object, while others have experiencers coded as dative or accusative Objects
and stimuli as Subjects.
Using corpus data, we track the frequency and distribution of a number
of discourse-related properties of the arguments, such as animacy, person, and
syntactic category, in order to gain insight into how both constructions are
really used and conceived of by speakers. The results point to a non-random
distribution of these properties when comparing the ‘Experiencer-as-Subject’
with the ‘Experiencer-as-Object’ constructions, and reveal striking differences
in their frequency across textual genres.
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Spanish constructions of directed motion – a quantitative study
Typological variation and framing strategy
1
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Johan Pedersen
Pedersen, Johan
Johan
Pedersen
01
In typological studies of expressions of motion events, there is a need for a
quantitative methodology that assesses and qualifies inter- and intra-linguistic
variation. The article reports on a large corpus study of the use of Spanish
motion verbs in constructions of telic motion. Verb associations with the
constructional V-slot were measured by using collostructional methodology
(Stefanowitsch and Gries, 2003). Six categories of construction-specific variation
were identified. The corpus data and broad evidence from other semantic
domains suggest that the encoding of Spanish argument structure is verb-driven
and that verb constraints versus schematicity is a typological parameter. The
study concludes that Spanish is a verb-framing language rather than a verbframed
language (cf. Talmy, 2000), which explains the substantial variation
observed.
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164
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Article
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A corpus-based study of infinitival and sentential complement constructions in Spanish
A
corpus-based study of infinitival and sentential complement constructions in Spanish
1
A01
Jiyoung Yoon
Yoon, Jiyoung
Jiyoung
Yoon
University of North Texas
2
A01
Stefanie Wulff
Wulff, Stefanie
Stefanie
Wulff
University of Florida
01
This corpus-based study examines Spanish infinitival and sentential complement
constructions. 561 infinitival and 795 sentential complements retrieved
from the AnCora corpus were subjected to a Distinctive Collexeme Analysis
(Gries and Stefanowitsch, 2004) that identified the verbs distinctively associated
with either complementation. The results suggest that the two are in fact distinct
constructions (Goldberg, 1995, 2006): the infinitival construction attracts verbs
denoting desire, whereas the sentential construction attracts verbs denoting
communication and mental activity. The results furthermore lend credence
to usage-based constructionist approaches: verbs fall on a continuum of
constructional preferences from which consistent semantic groups emerge. We
close with a brief discussion of how grammaticalization processes may account
for the constructional preferences of specific verbs.
10
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JB code
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165
198
34
Article
9
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Sense-based and lexeme-based alternation biases in the Dutch dative alternation
1
A01
Sarah Bernolet
Bernolet, Sarah
Sarah
Bernolet
2
A01
Timothy Colleman
Colleman, Timothy
Timothy
Colleman
01
In semantic studies of argument structure alternations as well as in psycholinguistic
studies on syntactic priming, lexical alternation biases are typically measured
at the level of the verb lexeme. This study explores the hypothesis that the
proper locus of subcategorization probabilities is the verb sense. It investigates
the effects of lexical polysemy on the subcategorization probabilities of Dutch
dative alternating verbs as reflected in frequency data from natural language
corpora and from a priming experiment. A sense-based distinctive collexeme
analysis on the corpus data indicates that distinct senses of the same verb may
indeed display different alternation biases. The response patterns in our priming
experiment suggest that language users keep track of verb subcategorization
preferences at different levels of schematization.
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III. Part 3. Multifactorial and Multivariate Analysis
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201
240
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Article
11
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A multifactorial analysis of <italic>that/</italic>zero alternation
A
multifactorial analysis of <italic>that/</italic>zero alternation
The diachronic development of the zero complementizer with <italic>think, guess</italic> and <italic>understand</italic>
1
A01
Christopher Shank
Shank, Christopher
Christopher
Shank
Bangor University
2
A01
Koen Plevoets
Plevoets, Koen
Koen
Plevoets
University College Ghent
3
A01
Julie Van Bogaert
Van Bogaert, Julie
Julie
Van Bogaert
Ghent University
01
This corpus-based study uses a stepwise logistic regression analysis to examine
the diachronic development of that/zero alternation with three verbs of cognition,
viz. think, guess and understand in both spoken and written corpora from
1560–2012. Eleven structural features which have been claimed in the literature
to predict the presence of the zero complementizer form are tested to see if
(1) there is indeed a diachronic trend towards more zero use, (2) whether the
conditioning factors proposed in the literature indeed predict the zero form,
(3) to what extent these factors interact and (4) whether the predictive power
of the conditioning factors becomes stronger or weaker over time. The analysis
disproves the hypothesis that there has been an overall diachronic development
towards more zero use and that the interactions with verb type brings to light
differences between verbs in terms of the predictive power of the individual
structural features.
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262
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A geometric exemplar-based model of semantic structure
A
geometric exemplar-based model of semantic structure
The Dutch causative construction with <italic>laten</italic>
1
A01
Natalia Levshina
Levshina, Natalia
Natalia
Levshina
01
This paper addresses an under-investigated issue of the structure of constructional
meaning, presenting an innovative corpus-based bottom-up approach,
which represents the semantic similarities between exemplars of a construction
with the help of Multidimensional Scaling. The study explores the main semantic
dimensions and senses of the Dutch causative construction with the auxiliary
laten ‘let’. The quantitative analyses of 731 corpus examples, which were
coded for 35 various contextual variables, show that the constructional semantics
is organized as a doughnut, with an empty centre and extensive periphery.
The main senses, which are represented by clusters of similar exemplars, are not
discrete, but represent a continuum. These findings are contrasted with previous
accounts, which assumed a discrete prototype-based structure of the meaning.
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University of California, Santa Barbara
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05
[I]t furnishes the reader with an overview of the possibilities of corpus methods in a constructional approach to language. In doing so, it provides inspiration to linguists working in Construction Grammar on how to choose the appropriate corpus technique from an ever-growing methodological toolbox. Meanwhile, the theoretical implications of the contributions show how we are steadily making scientific progress as a field. Corpus researchers are offered with examples of how to embed their analyses within the framework of Construction Grammar.
Dirk Pijpops, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), University of Leuven, in Constructions and Frames, 9:2 (2017)
05
Yoon and Gries‘ collection testifies to the manifestation of a new stage in the field of usage-based linguistics, contributing to the further establishment of data-based linguistic theorizing within the framework of CxG. The studies assembled are mainly based on data from languages other than English, including a diachronic perspective and they show how empirical methods can be tailored effectively to the issues and phenomena investigated. The gain is twofold: Firstly, the analysis of non-English data adds to the generalizability of (language-specific) usage-based findings, and secondly, the choice of effective quantitative methods offered highlights/demonstrates their great potential for empirical research into the nature of language.
Doris Schönefeld, University of Leipzig
05
Patterns of usage are only partially accessible to introspection. Usage-based approaches to language structure thus require the retrieval and assessment of actual usage data. This shift from introspection to corpus-linguistic methods has turned the study of syntax into a thoroughly empirical enterprise, initiating the "Quantitative Turn" in (cognitive) linguistic research. The contributions to this volume testify not only to the increased methodological repertoire now at the disposal of grammarians interested in a variety of languages other than English, but also to the fact that construction grammar provides a framework capable of reflecting how linguistic systems arise from speaker's experience of language in use.
Beate Hampe, University of Erfurt
05
Yoon and Gries’ volume brings together a range of exciting new research that is sure to inspire both corpus linguists and practitioners of Construction Grammar. The chapters are exemplary in their adaptation and imaginative application of corpus-based methodologies to the elucidation of syntactic and semantic patterning in English and languages other than English. Taken as a whole, the volume makes a compelling and eloquent case for corpus-based Construction Grammar and represents an important milestone in the continuing evolution of Construction Grammar approaches.
John Newman, University of Alberta
05
This excellent volume showcases the benefits of applying corpus linguistic methods to theoretical questions in Construction Grammar. Yoon and Gries have brought together eight highly interesting studies that address a wide range of grammatical phenomena, including adpositions, light verbs, case marking, complementation, and causation, which are studied across several Romance and Germanic languages. The volume thus nicely illustrates the whole breadth and depth of corpus-based constructional analyses.
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Corpus-based approaches to Construction Grammar
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Jiyoung Yoon
Yoon, Jiyoung
Jiyoung
Yoon
University of North Texas
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Stefan Th. Gries
Gries, Stefan Th.
Stefan Th.
Gries
University of California, Santa Barbara
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A constructional perspective on conceptual constituency
A
constructional perspective on conceptual constituency
Dutch postpositions or particles?
1
A01
Maaike Beliën
Beliën, Maaike
Maaike
Beliën
01
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’.
10
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JB code
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39
64
26
Article
4
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Development and representation of Italian light-<italic>fare</italic> constructions
1
A01
Valeria Quochi
Quochi, Valeria
Valeria
Quochi
01
This contribution analyzes the development and use of light fare ‘do’ constructions
in Child-directed Speech and in Child Language with the twofold goal
of showing that a Construction Grammar approach is viable, and of providing
support to usage-based, functional predictions on language acquisition. The
analysis of naturalistic data derived from the CHILDES database lead to two
main findings: first, a representation of fare Light Verb Constructions as a family
of constructions organized like a radial category is possible, second, there
exists a fare pivot schema that children generalize at an early stage because it
serves the purpose of naming new events, activities or situations.
10
01
JB code
cal.19.04roz
65
102
38
Article
5
01
Constructions with subject <italic>vs</italic>. object experiencers in Spanish and Italian
A corpus-based approach
1
A01
Victoria Vázquez Rozas
Vázquez Rozas, Victoria
Victoria
Vázquez Rozas
University of Santiago de Compostela
2
A01
Viola G. Miglio
Miglio, Viola G.
Viola G.
Miglio
University of California, Santa Barbara
01
This study analyzes Spanish and Italian clauses that denote processes or states
of feeling or emotion involving two participants, an experiencer and a stimulus.
Some of these clauses construe the experiencer as Subject and the stimulus as
Object, while others have experiencers coded as dative or accusative Objects
and stimuli as Subjects.
Using corpus data, we track the frequency and distribution of a number
of discourse-related properties of the arguments, such as animacy, person, and
syntactic category, in order to gain insight into how both constructions are
really used and conceived of by speakers. The results point to a non-random
distribution of these properties when comparing the ‘Experiencer-as-Subject’
with the ‘Experiencer-as-Object’ constructions, and reveal striking differences
in their frequency across textual genres.
10
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6
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II. Part 2. Collostructional Analysis
10
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JB code
cal.19.05ped
105
144
40
Article
7
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Spanish constructions of directed motion – a quantitative study
Typological variation and framing strategy
1
A01
Johan Pedersen
Pedersen, Johan
Johan
Pedersen
01
In typological studies of expressions of motion events, there is a need for a
quantitative methodology that assesses and qualifies inter- and intra-linguistic
variation. The article reports on a large corpus study of the use of Spanish
motion verbs in constructions of telic motion. Verb associations with the
constructional V-slot were measured by using collostructional methodology
(Stefanowitsch and Gries, 2003). Six categories of construction-specific variation
were identified. The corpus data and broad evidence from other semantic
domains suggest that the encoding of Spanish argument structure is verb-driven
and that verb constraints versus schematicity is a typological parameter. The
study concludes that Spanish is a verb-framing language rather than a verbframed
language (cf. Talmy, 2000), which explains the substantial variation
observed.
10
01
JB code
cal.19.06yoo
145
164
20
Article
8
01
A corpus-based study of infinitival and sentential complement constructions in Spanish
A
corpus-based study of infinitival and sentential complement constructions in Spanish
1
A01
Jiyoung Yoon
Yoon, Jiyoung
Jiyoung
Yoon
University of North Texas
2
A01
Stefanie Wulff
Wulff, Stefanie
Stefanie
Wulff
University of Florida
01
This corpus-based study examines Spanish infinitival and sentential complement
constructions. 561 infinitival and 795 sentential complements retrieved
from the AnCora corpus were subjected to a Distinctive Collexeme Analysis
(Gries and Stefanowitsch, 2004) that identified the verbs distinctively associated
with either complementation. The results suggest that the two are in fact distinct
constructions (Goldberg, 1995, 2006): the infinitival construction attracts verbs
denoting desire, whereas the sentential construction attracts verbs denoting
communication and mental activity. The results furthermore lend credence
to usage-based constructionist approaches: verbs fall on a continuum of
constructional preferences from which consistent semantic groups emerge. We
close with a brief discussion of how grammaticalization processes may account
for the constructional preferences of specific verbs.
10
01
JB code
cal.19.07ber
165
198
34
Article
9
01
Sense-based and lexeme-based alternation biases in the Dutch dative alternation
1
A01
Sarah Bernolet
Bernolet, Sarah
Sarah
Bernolet
2
A01
Timothy Colleman
Colleman, Timothy
Timothy
Colleman
01
In semantic studies of argument structure alternations as well as in psycholinguistic
studies on syntactic priming, lexical alternation biases are typically measured
at the level of the verb lexeme. This study explores the hypothesis that the
proper locus of subcategorization probabilities is the verb sense. It investigates
the effects of lexical polysemy on the subcategorization probabilities of Dutch
dative alternating verbs as reflected in frequency data from natural language
corpora and from a priming experiment. A sense-based distinctive collexeme
analysis on the corpus data indicates that distinct senses of the same verb may
indeed display different alternation biases. The response patterns in our priming
experiment suggest that language users keep track of verb subcategorization
preferences at different levels of schematization.
10
01
JB code
cal.19.s3
Section header
10
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III. Part 3. Multifactorial and Multivariate Analysis
10
01
JB code
cal.19.08sha
201
240
40
Article
11
01
A multifactorial analysis of <italic>that/</italic>zero alternation
A
multifactorial analysis of <italic>that/</italic>zero alternation
The diachronic development of the zero complementizer with <italic>think, guess</italic> and <italic>understand</italic>
1
A01
Christopher Shank
Shank, Christopher
Christopher
Shank
Bangor University
2
A01
Koen Plevoets
Plevoets, Koen
Koen
Plevoets
University College Ghent
3
A01
Julie Van Bogaert
Van Bogaert, Julie
Julie
Van Bogaert
Ghent University
01
This corpus-based study uses a stepwise logistic regression analysis to examine
the diachronic development of that/zero alternation with three verbs of cognition,
viz. think, guess and understand in both spoken and written corpora from
1560–2012. Eleven structural features which have been claimed in the literature
to predict the presence of the zero complementizer form are tested to see if
(1) there is indeed a diachronic trend towards more zero use, (2) whether the
conditioning factors proposed in the literature indeed predict the zero form,
(3) to what extent these factors interact and (4) whether the predictive power
of the conditioning factors becomes stronger or weaker over time. The analysis
disproves the hypothesis that there has been an overall diachronic development
towards more zero use and that the interactions with verb type brings to light
differences between verbs in terms of the predictive power of the individual
structural features.
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A geometric exemplar-based model of semantic structure
A
geometric exemplar-based model of semantic structure
The Dutch causative construction with <italic>laten</italic>
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Natalia Levshina
Levshina, Natalia
Natalia
Levshina
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This paper addresses an under-investigated issue of the structure of constructional
meaning, presenting an innovative corpus-based bottom-up approach,
which represents the semantic similarities between exemplars of a construction
with the help of Multidimensional Scaling. The study explores the main semantic
dimensions and senses of the Dutch causative construction with the auxiliary
laten ‘let’. The quantitative analyses of 731 corpus examples, which were
coded for 35 various contextual variables, show that the constructional semantics
is organized as a doughnut, with an empty centre and extensive periphery.
The main senses, which are represented by clusters of similar exemplars, are not
discrete, but represent a continuum. These findings are contrasted with previous
accounts, which assumed a discrete prototype-based structure of the meaning.
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