Thomas Herbst

List of John Benjamins publications for which Thomas Herbst plays a role.

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Herbst, Thomas. 2022. Constructions, generalizations, and the unpredictability of language. Construction Grammar across Borders, Torrent, Tiago Timponi, Ely Edison da Silva Matos and Natália Sathler Sigiliano (eds.), pp. 55–94
Attempts at predicting syntactic behavior from semantic or other generalizations are often unsatisfactory. It is argued that the notion of competition as used by Goldberg (2019) can serve as an explanation for unpredictability in language because established formulations that are preferred over… read more | Chapter
Herbst, Thomas. 2020. Constructions, generalizations, and the unpredictability of language: Moving towards colloconstruction grammar. Construction Grammar across Borders, Torrent, Tiago Timponi, Ely Edison da Silva Matos and Natália Sathler Sigiliano (eds.), pp. 56–95
Attempts at predicting syntactic behavior from semantic or other generalizations are often unsatisfactory. It is argued that the notion of competition as used by Goldberg (2019) can serve as an explanation for unpredictability in language because established formulations that are preferred over… read more | Article
Herbst, Thomas and Peter Uhrig. 2020. The issue of specifying slots in argument structure constructions in terms of form and meaning. The Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research, Colleman, Timothy, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.), pp. 135–147
In Construction Grammar theory, constructions are generally described as form-meaning pairings. It will be argued here that the formal specifications of some abstract constructions are so vague that the notion of form needs to be discussed rather critically. We aim to demonstrate how, in the… read more | Article
Herbst, Thomas. 2009. Valency – item-specificity and idiom principle. Exploring the Lexis–Grammar Interface, Römer, Ute and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 49–68
This article discusses the role of valency as a lexico-grammatical phenomenon which can only be fully accounted for in terms of such concepts as Sinclair’s idiom principle. It is argued that insights from corpus linguistics and foreign language linguistics can be accommodated in cognitive… read more | Article
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Herbst, Thomas. 1997. Dubbing and the Dubbed text — style and cohesion. Text Typology and Translation, Trosborg, Anna (ed.), pp. 291 ff.
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Herbst, Thomas. 1987. A Proposal for a Valency Dictionary of English. A Spectrum of Lexicography, Ilson, Robert F. (ed.), pp. 29 ff.
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