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167017044 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code CAL 19 Eb 15 9789027266606 06 10.1075/cal.19 13 2016039940 DG 002 02 01 CAL 02 1573-594X Constructional Approaches to Language 19 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Corpus-based Approaches to Construction Grammar</TitleText> 01 cal.19 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/cal.19 1 B01 Jiyoung Yoon Yoon, Jiyoung Jiyoung Yoon University of North Texas 2 B01 Stefan Th. Gries Gries, Stefan Th. Stefan Th. Gries University of California, Santa Barbara 01 eng 274 vi 268 LAN009060 v.2006 CFX 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.CORP Corpus linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SYNTAX Syntax 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 06 01 This volume brings together empirical Construction Grammar studies to (i) promote cross-fertilization between researchers interested in constructional approaches on various languages, and (ii) further the growing trend towards empirically rigorous research that takes seriously a commitment not only to usage-based <i>theories</i>, but also to usage-based <i>methodologies</i>. Accordingly, the chapters in this volume comprise a range of studies not based on synchronic contemporary English but include Dutch, old English, Italian, and Spanish. This volume also features studies from a wider range of statistical sophistication: some chapters use more traditional frequency- and attestation-based approaches, some chapters use inferential statistical techniques to explore lexically specific preferences and patterns in constructional slots, and some chapters use multifactorial hypothesis-testing techniques or multivariate exploratory tools to discover patterns in corpus data that a mere eye-balling or simple statistical tools would not uncover. 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. Martin Hilpert, University of Neuchâtel 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/cal.19.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027204417.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027204417.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/cal.19.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/cal.19.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/cal.19.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/cal.19.hb.png 10 01 JB code cal.19.01yoo 1 8 8 Article 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Corpus-based approaches to Construction Grammar</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Introduction</Subtitle> 1 A01 Jiyoung Yoon Yoon, Jiyoung Jiyoung Yoon University of North Texas 2 A01 Stefan Th. Gries Gries, Stefan Th. Stefan Th. Gries University of California, Santa Barbara 10 01 JB code cal.19.s1 Section header 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">I. Part 1. Frequencies and probabilities</TitleText> 10 01 JB code cal.19.02bel 11 38 28 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">A constructional perspective on conceptual constituency</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>A </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">constructional perspective on conceptual constituency</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">Dutch postpositions or particles?</Subtitle> 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 &#8216;constituency&#8217;, 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 &#8216;particle analysis&#8217;. 10 01 JB code cal.19.03quo 39 64 26 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Development and representation of Italian light-<italic>fare</italic> constructions</TitleText> 1 A01 Valeria Quochi Quochi, Valeria Valeria Quochi 01 This contribution analyzes the development and use of light fare &#8216;do&#8217; 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 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Constructions with subject <italic>vs</italic>. object experiencers in Spanish and Italian</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A corpus-based approach</Subtitle> 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 &#8216;Experiencer-as-Subject&#8217; with the &#8216;Experiencer-as-Object&#8217; constructions, and reveal striking differences in their frequency across textual genres. 10 01 JB code cal.19.s2 Section header 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">II. Part 2. Collostructional Analysis</TitleText> 10 01 JB code cal.19.05ped 105 144 40 Article 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Spanish constructions of directed motion &#8211; a quantitative study</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Typological variation and framing strategy</Subtitle> 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 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">A corpus-based study of infinitival and sentential complement constructions in Spanish</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>A </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">corpus-based study of infinitival and sentential complement constructions in Spanish</TitleWithoutPrefix> 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 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Sense-based and lexeme-based alternation biases in the Dutch dative alternation</TitleText> 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 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">III. Part 3. Multifactorial and Multivariate Analysis</TitleText> 10 01 JB code cal.19.08sha 201 240 40 Article 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">A multifactorial analysis of <italic>that/</italic>zero alternation</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>A </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">multifactorial analysis of <italic>that/</italic>zero alternation</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">The diachronic development of the zero complementizer with <italic>think, guess</italic> and <italic>understand</italic></Subtitle> 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&#8211;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. 10 01 JB code cal.19.09lev 241 262 22 Article 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">A geometric exemplar-based model of semantic structure</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>A </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">geometric exemplar-based model of semantic structure</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">The Dutch causative construction with <italic>laten</italic></Subtitle> 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 &#8216;let&#8217;. 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. 10 01 JB code cal.19.10ind 263 268 6 Miscellaneous 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20160908 2016 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027204417 01 JB 3 John Benjamins e-Platform 03 jbe-platform.com 09 WORLD 21 01 00 95.00 EUR R 01 00 80.00 GBP Z 01 gen 00 143.00 USD S 331017043 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code CAL 19 Hb 15 9789027204417 13 2016025737 BB 01 CAL 02 1573-594X Constructional Approaches to Language 19 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Corpus-based Approaches to Construction Grammar</TitleText> 01 cal.19 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/cal.19 1 B01 Jiyoung Yoon Yoon, Jiyoung Jiyoung Yoon University of North Texas 2 B01 Stefan Th. Gries Gries, Stefan Th. Stefan Th. Gries University of California, Santa Barbara 01 eng 274 vi 268 LAN009060 v.2006 CFX 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.CORP Corpus linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SYNTAX Syntax 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 06 01 This volume brings together empirical Construction Grammar studies to (i) promote cross-fertilization between researchers interested in constructional approaches on various languages, and (ii) further the growing trend towards empirically rigorous research that takes seriously a commitment not only to usage-based <i>theories</i>, but also to usage-based <i>methodologies</i>. Accordingly, the chapters in this volume comprise a range of studies not based on synchronic contemporary English but include Dutch, old English, Italian, and Spanish. This volume also features studies from a wider range of statistical sophistication: some chapters use more traditional frequency- and attestation-based approaches, some chapters use inferential statistical techniques to explore lexically specific preferences and patterns in constructional slots, and some chapters use multifactorial hypothesis-testing techniques or multivariate exploratory tools to discover patterns in corpus data that a mere eye-balling or simple statistical tools would not uncover. 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. Martin Hilpert, University of Neuchâtel 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/cal.19.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027204417.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027204417.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/cal.19.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/cal.19.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/cal.19.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/cal.19.hb.png 10 01 JB code cal.19.01yoo 1 8 8 Article 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Corpus-based approaches to Construction Grammar</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Introduction</Subtitle> 1 A01 Jiyoung Yoon Yoon, Jiyoung Jiyoung Yoon University of North Texas 2 A01 Stefan Th. Gries Gries, Stefan Th. Stefan Th. Gries University of California, Santa Barbara 10 01 JB code cal.19.s1 Section header 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">I. Part 1. Frequencies and probabilities</TitleText> 10 01 JB code cal.19.02bel 11 38 28 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">A constructional perspective on conceptual constituency</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>A </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">constructional perspective on conceptual constituency</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">Dutch postpositions or particles?</Subtitle> 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 &#8216;constituency&#8217;, 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 &#8216;particle analysis&#8217;. 10 01 JB code cal.19.03quo 39 64 26 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Development and representation of Italian light-<italic>fare</italic> constructions</TitleText> 1 A01 Valeria Quochi Quochi, Valeria Valeria Quochi 01 This contribution analyzes the development and use of light fare &#8216;do&#8217; 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 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Constructions with subject <italic>vs</italic>. object experiencers in Spanish and Italian</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A corpus-based approach</Subtitle> 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 &#8216;Experiencer-as-Subject&#8217; with the &#8216;Experiencer-as-Object&#8217; constructions, and reveal striking differences in their frequency across textual genres. 10 01 JB code cal.19.s2 Section header 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">II. Part 2. Collostructional Analysis</TitleText> 10 01 JB code cal.19.05ped 105 144 40 Article 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Spanish constructions of directed motion &#8211; a quantitative study</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Typological variation and framing strategy</Subtitle> 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 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">A corpus-based study of infinitival and sentential complement constructions in Spanish</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>A </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">corpus-based study of infinitival and sentential complement constructions in Spanish</TitleWithoutPrefix> 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 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Sense-based and lexeme-based alternation biases in the Dutch dative alternation</TitleText> 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 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">III. Part 3. Multifactorial and Multivariate Analysis</TitleText> 10 01 JB code cal.19.08sha 201 240 40 Article 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">A multifactorial analysis of <italic>that/</italic>zero alternation</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>A </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">multifactorial analysis of <italic>that/</italic>zero alternation</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">The diachronic development of the zero complementizer with <italic>think, guess</italic> and <italic>understand</italic></Subtitle> 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&#8211;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. 10 01 JB code cal.19.09lev 241 262 22 Article 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">A geometric exemplar-based model of semantic structure</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>A </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">geometric exemplar-based model of semantic structure</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">The Dutch causative construction with <italic>laten</italic></Subtitle> 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 &#8216;let&#8217;. 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. 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