Corpora, Constructions, New Englishes
A constructional and variationist approach to verb patterning
| University of Louvain
This book takes an integrated approach to the fields of Corpus Linguistics, Construction Grammar, and World Englishes through a thorough constructional and corpus-based examination of the patterning of the versatile high-frequency verb make in British English and New Englishes. It contributes to Construction Grammar theory by adopting a verb-based, rather than construction-based, perspective on argument structure. This allows the probing of the interface between verb-independent generalizations and item-specificity from an underexplored angle that offers new insights into the shape of the constructicon. From a variationist perspective, it seeks to (i) identify features of New Englishes and gauge whether these features exhibit traces of conventionalization, and (ii) assess whether the degree of institutionalization of the New Englishes correlates with linguistic behavior, both from a social and cognitive perspective, thereby contributing to the budding effort to integrate the cognitive and social dimensions into the modeling of linguistic variation in World Englishes.
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 100] 2021. xxii, 395 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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List of abbreviations | p. xi
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List of tables | pp. xiii–xvi
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List of figures | pp. xvii–xix
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Acknowledgements | pp. xxi–xxii
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Chapter 1. Introduction | pp. 1–10
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Chapter 2. The World Englishes paradigm and New Englishes: From colonial past to present sociolinguistic profile | pp. 11–43
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Chapter 3. Structural nativization in New Englishes | pp. 45–77
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Chapter 4. Construction Grammar meets Corpus Pattern Analysis | pp. 79–124
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Chapter 5. Data and methods: Identifying constructions bottom-up in the International Corpus of English | pp. 125–161
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Chapter 6. Establishing the native norm: The make-constructicon in British English | pp. 163–238
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Chapter 7. The schematic to substantive patterning of make across New Englishes | pp. 239–325
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Chapter 8. General conclusion | pp. 327–340
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References | pp. 341–368
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Appendix 1: The Lexically-Bound Constructions of make and their allostructions in ICE-GB
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Appendices. Appendix 1: The Lexically-Bound Constructions of make and their allostructions in ICE-GB | pp. 369–391
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Appendix 2: The LBCs of make broken down by ASC in ICE-GB | pp. 374–378
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Appendix 3: The LBCs of make broken down per ASC and their frequency in ICE-GB, ICE-HK, ICE-IND and ICE-SIN | pp. 378–388
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Appendix 4: The syntactic profiling the Light Verb Construction: output of the mixed-effects regression models | pp. 389–391
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Index | pp. 393–395
Subjects & Metadata
Linguistics
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009060 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax