English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective: Current issues
Edited by Lotte Sommerer and Evelien Keizer
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 221] 2022. vii, 433 pp.
Lotte Sommerer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lotte Sommerer plays a role.
Titles
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar
Edited by Lotte Sommerer and Elena Smirnova
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 27] 2020. vi, 355 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Diachronic Construction Grammar
Edited by Jóhanna Barðdal, Elena Smirnova, Lotte Sommerer and Spike Gildea
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 18] 2015. xi, 263 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2022 Major trends in research on the English NP English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective: Current issues, Sommerer, Lotte and Evelien Keizer (eds.), pp. 1–24
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2022 Day to day and night after night: Temporal NPN constructions in Present Day English English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective: Current issues, Sommerer, Lotte and Evelien Keizer (eds.), pp. 363–394
This paper analyzes temporal symmetric NPN constructions in which both nouns are singular, identical, and conjoined by a preposition (e.g. day to day, hour upon hour, night after night). The constructions’ binominal structure, their idiomatic nature, their apparent frozenness, and their syntactic… read more | Chapter
2020 Introduction: The nature of the node and the network – Open questions in Diachronic Construction Grammar Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar, Sommerer, Lotte and Elena Smirnova (eds.), pp. 1–42
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2020 Why we avoid the ‘Multiple Inheritance’ issue in Usage-based Cognitive Construction Grammar 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. 320–331
This squib revisits the phenomenon of ‘Multiple Inheritance’ (MI) and discusses reasons why many usage-based, cognitive construction grammarians seem to be avoiding it when modeling the constructicon and linguistic knowledge. After a brief discussion of the concept and some examples from the… read more | Article
2020 Constructionalization, constructional competition and constructional death: Investigating the demise of Old English POSS DEM constructions Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar, Sommerer, Lotte and Elena Smirnova (eds.), pp. 69–103
This paper revisits POSS DEM constructions in Old English (OE) by analyzing 13 OE prose texts from the York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose (YCOE). It aims to explain the marginalization and ultimate demise of this constructional family by discussing how the emergence of a new… read more | Chapter
2019 Van Goethem, Kristel, Muriel Norde, Evie Coussé & Gudrun Vanderbauwhede (eds.). (2018). Category Change from a Constructional Perspective On the Role of Pragmatics in Construction Grammar, Finkbeiner, Rita (ed.), pp. 317–333
Review
2015 The influence of constructions in grammaticalization: Revisiting category emergence and the development of the definite article in English Diachronic Construction Grammar, Barðdal, Jóhanna, Elena Smirnova, Lotte Sommerer and Spike Gildea (eds.), pp. 107–138
In this chapter it will be argued that a proper understanding of grammaticalization has to take into account the driving force of lexically underspecified constructions. Using evidence from an extensive qualitative and quantitative corpus study in the York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old… read more | Article