Linking Constructions into Functional Linguistics
The role of constructions in grammar
Editors
| Institute of Technology Blanchardstown Dublin
| Google Ireland
There is a growing awareness of the significance of constructions in grammar in the world’s languages. To date there has not been a single volume that addresses the issues of constructions within a functional Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) account. The book is a collection of articles that will serve the scholarly community as a reference work on the role, place and significance of constructions within this functional model of grammar. As a result, this volume represents the first instance of cross-linguistic comparison of these important discourse and syntax-related phenomena. The articles cover a variety of typologically different languages including German, Irish, Spanish, French, Japanese, Yaqui, Tepehua (Totonacan), Persian, and English, and they offer new data on the role of constructions, within the RRG theory, in these languages. Further, this volume contributes towards providing a comprehensive overview of grammatical constructions which are central to our understanding of how human languages function, in a functional linguistics perspective. This scholarly work is grounded in a functionally oriented model that makes strong claims of descriptive and typological adequacy. The book will represent a valuable step forward in linguistics research as it applies the RRG theoretical framework to the analyses of constructions.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 145] 2013. xix, 335 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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IntroductionBrian Nolan and Elke Diedrichsen | pp. vii–xx
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Controller-controllee relations in purposive constructions: A construction-based accountLilián Guerrero | pp. 1–22
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Transitivity, constructions, and the projection of argument structure in RRGJames K. Watters | pp. 23–40
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Constructions in RRG: A case study of mimetic verbs in JapaneseKiyoko Toratani | pp. 41–66
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A constructional perspective on clefting in Persian: An insight into differentiating between emphatic and deictic inFarhad Moezzipour | pp. 67–102
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Radical Role and Reference Grammar (RRRG): A sketch for remodelling the Syntax-Semantics-InterfaceRolf Kailuweit | pp. 103–142
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Constructions as grammatical objects: A case study of the prepositional ditransitive construction in Modern IrishBrian Nolan | pp. 143–178
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Constructions in Role and Reference Grammar: The case of the English resultativeRocío Jiménez Briones and Alba Luzondo Oyón | pp. 179–204
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Towards a model of constructional meaning for natural language understandingCarlos Periñán-Pascual | pp. 205–230
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Meaning construction, meaning interpretation and formal expression in the Lexical Constructional ModelFrancisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez | pp. 231–270
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Constructions in the Lexical Constructional ModelChristopher S. Butler | pp. 271–294
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From idioms to sentence structures and beyond: The theoretical scope of the concept "Construction"Elke Diedrichsen | pp. 295–330
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Index | pp. 331–336
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Subjects & Metadata
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General