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Title Corpus-based approaches to construction grammar / edited by Jiyoung Yoon, Stefan Th. Gries.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]

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Series Constructional approaches to language, 1573-594X ; volume 19
Constructional approaches to language ; v. 19.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Corpus-based Approaches to Construction Grammar; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Chapter 1. Corpus-based approaches to Construction Grammar: Introduction; References; Part I. Frequencies and probabilities; Chapter 2. A constructional perspective on conceptual constituency: Dutch postpositions or particles; 1. Introduction; 2. Constituency tests: Lack of consensus; 3. A constructional method for determining conceptual constituency; 4. A semantic analysis of the construction; 5. A semantic comparison with relevant other constructions; 5.1 Comparing ParCs and PreCs.
5.2 Comparing ParCs and SCVCs6. Accounting for semantic similarities and differences in terms of constituency; 7. Towards a full constructional analysis of the constituency of ParCs; 8. Conclusion; References; Chapter 3. Development and representation of Italian light-fare constructions; 1. Introduction; 2. A developmental study of fare LVCs using naturalistic data; 3. Fare constructs. Three macro categories; 3.1 Fare + nouns morphologically related to verbs; 3.2 Fare + (physical) entity-denoting nouns; 3.3 Fare + abstract nouns; 4. A constructionist hypothesis for fare+N constructs.
5. Acquisition of the family of LVCs5.1 The Perform Intransitive Action construction; 5.2 The Perform Sound construction; 5.3 The Perform Transitive Action construction; 5.4 The pattern of acquisition; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 4. Constructions with subject vs. object experiencers in Spanish and Italian: A corpus-based approach; 1. The constructions: Experiencer as Subject (ESC) vs. Experiencer as Object (EOC); 1.1 The constructions; 1.2 Case marking and pronominal syncretism in ESCs and EOCs; 1.3 The object experiencer in Di Tullio (2004) and Melis (1999).
2. Methods2.1 Data selection; 3. Results; 3.1 Discourse-related and semantic features of EOCs and ESCs; 3.2 ESCs, EOCs and text type (genre); 4. Discussion; 5. Conclusions; References; Part II. Collostructional analysis; Chapter 5. Spanish constructions of directed motion -- a quantitative study: Typological variation and framing strategy; 1. Introduction; 2. Background; 3. Theoretical framework; 4. Methodology; 5. Results; 5.1 General patterns in the data compared to previous research; 5.2 The construction specific prototype; 5.3 Typological graduation; 5.4 Qualifiable variation.
6. Theoretical discussion -- Spanish as a verb-framing language7. Conclusion and perspectives; References; Appendix: Complete list of verb ranking; Chapter 6. A corpus-based study of infinitival and sentential complement constructions in Spanish; 1. Introduction; 2. Methods; 2.1 Data; 2.2 Distinctive Collexeme Analysis (DCA); 3. Results; 4. Discussion; References; Chapter 7. Sense-based and lexeme-based alternation biases in the Dutch dative alternation; 1. Introduction; 2. The dative alternation in Dutch; 3. Polysemy effects: A sense-based distinctive collexeme analysis.
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Subject Construction grammar -- Data processing.
Construction grammar.
Corpora (Linguistics) -- Data processing.
Corpora (Linguistics)
Generative grammar.
Generative grammar.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Yoon, Jiyoung, editor.
Gries, Stefan Thomas, 1970- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Corpus-based approaches to construction grammar. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016] 9789027204417 (DLC) 2016025737
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