Jouni Rostila

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jouni Rostila plays a role.

Article

Rostila, Jouni 2018 Goldberg’s Rely On construction: Overreliance on generalization?Changing Structures: Studies in constructions and complementation, Kaunisto, Mark, Mikko Höglund and Paul Rickman (eds.), pp. 55–68 | Chapter
Goldberg (2014) proposes one polysemous argument structure construction (ASC) for cases as varied as nibble/rely/bet on something. Inspired by ASCs needed for a semantically similar domain in German, my analysis suggests that a more adequate solution can be reached with three constructions that… read more