Constructicography
Constructicon development across languages
Editors
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ISBN 9789027263865
In constructionist theory, a constructicon is an inventory of constructions making up the full set of linguistic units in a language. In applied practice, it is a set of construction descriptions – a “dictionary of constructions”. The development of constructicons in the latter sense typically means combining principles of both construction grammar and lexicography, and is probably best characterized as a blend between the two traditions. We call this blend constructicography.
The present volume is a comprehensive introduction to the emerging field of constructicography. After a general introduction follow six chapters presenting constructicon projects for English, German, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Swedish, respectively, often in relation to a framenet of the language. In addition, there is a chapter addressing the interplay between linguistics and language technology in constructicon development, and a final chapter exploring the prospects for interlingual constructicography.
This is the first major publication devoted to constructicon development and it should be particularly relevant for those interested in construction grammar, frame semantics, lexicography, the relation between grammar and lexicon, or linguistically informed language technology.
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 22] 2018. viii, 313 pp.
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Table of Contents
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Preface | pp. vii–viii
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Chapter 1. Introduction: Constructicons and constructicographyBenjamin Lyngfelt | pp. 1–18
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Chapter 2. The FrameNet constructicon in actionRussell Lee-Goldman and Miriam R.L. Petruck | pp. 19–40
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Chapter 3. Constructicography at work: Theory meets practice in the Swedish constructiconBenjamin Lyngfelt, Linnéa Bäckström, Lars Borin, Anna Ehrlemark and Rudolf Rydstedt | pp. 41–106
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Chapter 4. Towards continuity between the lexicon and the constructicon in FrameNet BrasilTiago Timponi Torrent, Ely Edison da Silva Matos, Ludmila Lage, Adrieli Laviola, Tatiane Tavares, Vânia Gomes de Almeida and Natália Sigiliano | pp. 107–140
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Chapter 5. Relations between frames and constructions: A proposal from the Japanese FrameNet constructiconKyoko Ohara | pp. 141–163
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Chapter 6. A constructicon for Russian: Filling in the gapsLaura A. Janda, Olga Lyashevskaya, Tore Nesset, Ekaterina Rakhilina and Francis M. Tyers | pp. 165–181
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Chapter 7. Constructing a constructicon for German: Empirical, theoretical, and methodological issuesHans C. Boas and Alexander Ziem | pp. 183–228
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Chapter 8. Linguistics vs. language technology in constructicon building and useLars Borin, Dana Dannélls and Normunds Grūzītis | pp. 229–253
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Chapter 9. Aligning constructicons across languages: A trilingual comparison between English, Swedish, and Brazilian PortugueseBenjamin Lyngfelt, Tiago Timponi Torrent, Adrieli Laviola, Linnéa Bäckström, Anna Helga Hannesdóttir and Ely Edison da Silva Matos | pp. 255–302
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General index | pp. 303–309
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Index of constructions | pp. 310–313
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Subjects
Terminology & Lexicography
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN016000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics