Chapter 7
The schematic to substantive patterning of make across New Englishes
Article outline
- 7.1Identifying the features of New Englishes across levels of abstraction
- 7.1.1A frequency profile of make
- 7.1.2High level of abstraction: The ASCs of make across varieties
- 7.1.2.1The distribution of ASCs across varieties
- 7.1.2.2Losing it: Argument omission in ASC realizations
- 7.1.3Intermediate level of abstraction: The LBCs of make
- 7.1.3.1General overview
- 7.1.3.2Innovation: Attested features at the level of LBCs
- 7.1.3.3Propagation: Tracking down traces of conventionalization
- 7.1.3.4Interim discussion
- 7.1.4Low level of abstraction: The syntactic, lexical and semantic patterning of The Light Verb Construction
- 7.1.4.1The syntactic profiling of the LVC
- 7.1.4.2The lexical profiling of the LVC
- 7.1.4.3The semantic profiling of the LVC
- 7.1.4.4Interim summary
- 7.1.5The bigger picture: Linguistic features and the Dynamic Model
- 7.2The cognitive representation of New Englishes
- 7.2.1Background
- 7.2.2Method
- 7.2.3Results
- 7.2.3.1Variation in LBC realization
- 7.2.3.2Variation in allostructional realization
- 7.2.3.3Variation in lexical realization
- 7.2.4Summary and discussion
- 7.3Conclusion
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