Chapter 4
Construction Grammar meets Corpus Pattern Analysis
Article outline
- 4.1Construction Grammar
- 4.1.1The essentials of Construction Grammar
- 4.1.1.1Motivating Construction Grammar: On the origins of the species
- 4.1.1.2The cognitive bedrock of Construction Grammar
- 4.1.1.3Constructions and the constructicon
- 4.1.2Argument Structure Constructions, verbs, and Lexically-Bound Constructions
- 4.1.2.1Goldberg’s account of argument structure: A phrasal perspective
- 4.1.2.2Lexicalist perspectives in Construction Grammar
- 4.1.3Construction Grammar and Corpus Linguistics: Two sides of the same coin
- 4.2The Theory of Norms and Exploitations and Corpus Pattern Analysis
- 4.2.1Theory of Norms and Exploitations: Theoretical premises
- 4.2.1.1Meaning as a contextualized event
- 4.2.1.2Meaning potential and meaning components
- 4.2.1.3Selectional preferences: Meaning as probabilistic and prototypical
- 4.2.1.3.1Lexical sets and semantic types
- 4.2.1.3.2Contextual roles
- 4.2.1.3.3Semantic type coercion
- 4.2.1.4The linguistic double helix: Two sets of rules for norms and exploitations
- 4.2.1.5Particulars of verbal meaning patterns
- 4.2.2The method: Corpus Pattern Analysis
- 4.2.2.1The apparatus
- 4.2.2.2The procedure
- 4.3Construction Grammar and the Theory of Norms and Exploitations compared
- 4.4Conclusion: The best of both worlds
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