Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages
Edited by Evie Coussé, Steffen Höder, Benjamin Lyngfelt and Julia Prentice
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 37] 2023. v, 278 pp.
Julia Prentice
List of John Benjamins publications for which Julia Prentice plays a role.
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Subjects Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2023 Chapter 1. Introduction: Nordic languages and construction grammar Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages, Coussé, Evie, Steffen Höder, Benjamin Lyngfelt and Julia Prentice (eds.), pp. 1–23 | Chapter
2023 Chapter 7. The entrenchment of semi-schematic time constructions by German foreign language learners of Swedish Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages, Coussé, Evie, Steffen Höder, Benjamin Lyngfelt and Julia Prentice (eds.), pp. 179–211 | Chapter
This chapter investigates the entrenchment of semi-schematic time constructions by a group of foreign language learners of Swedish. Results from a phrasal decision experiment with 30 German speaking learners of Swedish show that the learners of Swedish process these constructions significantly… read more
2021 Additional language acquisition as emerging multilingualism: A Construction Grammar approach Constructions in Contact 2: Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition, Boas, Hans C. and Steffen Höder (eds.), pp. 309–337 | Chapter
Recent years have seen an increasing interest in applying Construction Grammar to additional language (AL) acquisition as well as in constructionist approaches to language contact and multilingualism, in particular Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG; Höder, 2018). This paper combines both… read more
2021 Figurative language in multilingual students’ L2 Swedish – a usage-based perspective Metaphor in Education: A multilingual perspective, Ahlgren, Katrin, Anne Golden and Ulrika Magnusson (eds.), pp. 235–260 | Article
The aim of the current paper is to reinterpret some results of two previous studies on the mastery of figurative expressions from the perspective of usage-based linguistics. The reanalysis aims to shed more light on the learning and use of figurative language by multilingual students by… read more
2021 Chapter 12. Language learning and teaching with Swedish FrameNet++: Two examples The Swedish FrameNet++: Harmonization, integration, method development and practical language technology applications, Dannélls, Dana, Lars Borin and Karin Friberg Heppin (eds.), pp. 303–330 | Chapter
This chapter describes and discusses the use of resources connected to Swedish FrameNet++ (SweFN++) in the context of the teaching and learning of language proficiency and grammatical analysis in Swedish. We illustrate the way in which different resources in the SweFN++ context can be useful for… read more
2014 From construction candidates to constructicon entries: An experiment using semi-automatic methods for identifying constructions in corpora Frames, constructions, and computation, Borin, Lars, Gerard de Melo, Karin Friberg Heppin and Tiago Timponi Torrent (eds.), pp. 114–135 | Article
We present an experiment where natural language processing tools are used to automatically identify potential constructions in a corpus. The experiment was conducted as part of the ongoing efforts to develop a Swedish constructicon. Using an automatic method to suggest constructions has advantages… read more