What’s the right degree of granularity for the analysis of argument structure constructions?: Corpus data in usage-based linguistics

Gries, Stefan Th.

doi:10.1075/hcp.32.15gri

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Cognitive Linguistics: Convergence and Expansion
Edited by Mario Brdar, Stefan Th. Gries and Milena Žic Fuchs
[Human Cognitive Processing 32] 2011
► pp. 237–256

Corpus data in usage-based linguistics

What’s the right degree of granularity for the analysis of argument structure constructions?

Stefan Th. Gries | University of California, Santa Barbara

The use of corpus data in cognitive linguistics brings with it a host of methodological problems. One concerns the degree of granularity that provides the most insightful results. The present study investigates two granularity issues – different inflectional forms and (register-)based corpus parts. First, I compare the results of a lemma-based corpus analysis of an English argument structure construction to an inflectional-form-based corpus analysis to determine whether the two approaches result in different suggestions concerning the semantics of the construction at issue. Second, I outline how to determine whether data from different corpus parts/registers result in different semantic generalizations of the same construction and how relevant corpus distinctions can be determined in an objective bottom-up manner.

Published online: 10 November 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.32.15gri

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