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Trends in Linguistics - Studies and Monographs 282
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From collocations and patterns to constructions – an introduction
First language learning from a usage-based approach
1. Introduction
2. The input
3. Productivity, creativity and constituency
4. The development of the transitive and intransitive constructions
5. Explaining errors: Why do they matter?
6. The development of more complex syntax
7. Competition and affordance in a network of constructions
8. Conclusions
References
Item-based patterns in early syntactic development
1. From words to combinations
2. Positional patterns
3. Item-based patterns
3.1 How children learn IBPs
3.2 The structure of IBPs
3.3 Clustering
3.4 Non-locality
3.5 Agreement
4. Processing IBPs
5. Generative power of IBPs
5.1 Errors as evidence for IBPs
5.2 Conservatism as evidence for IBPs
5.3 Correlational evidence for IBPs
5.4 Competition and conservatism
6. Feature-based patterns
6.1 Evidence for FBPs
6.2 Global patterns
6.3 FBPs and the syntactic component
7. Item-based patterns in second language learning
8. Comparisons with other models
9. Conclusion
References
Construction learning as category learning: A cognitive analysis
1. Introduction
2. Construction Grammar and usage
3. Determinants of construction learning
3.1 Input frequency
Construction frequency
Type and token frequency
Zipfian distribution
3.2 Form salience and perception)
3.3 Function prototypicality of meaning)
3.4 Interactions between form and function contingency of form-functionmapping)
4. Method
5. Results
6. Discussion
Acknowledgement
References
Pattern grammar in context
1. Introduction
2. Colligation and units of meaning
3. Observing patterns
4. Pattern flow
5. Pattern and meaning
6. Critiques of pattern grammar
7. ‘Adding value’ to patterns
8. Construction grammar
9. Conclusion
References
Frames, constructions, and FrameNet
1. Grammar for the lexicon
2. FrameNet as a lexical resource
3. A case study
3.1 Noun senses
3.2 Verb senses
3.3 Metaphorical sense
3.4 Annotations
4. Grammar work-arounds
5. Toward constructions
6. Case study: A sample text
7. The FrameNet Constructicon
7.1 Pumping constructions
7.2 Measurement adjectives
7.3 Adjectives as nominal
7.4 Reciprocal “best friends”
7.5 Portions and Multiples
7.6 Conjunctions and Conjunction Reduction
8. Summary
9. Conclusion
References
The valency approach to argument structure constructions
1. Valency and the interaction of lexis and grammar
2. Sketch of a valency approach
2.1 Basic categories
2.2 Complements and adjuncts
2.3 Description of complements
2.4 Semantic roles
2.5 Optionality
2.6 Complement inventory
3. Linking lexical valency with constructions
3.1 Valency as lexical potential
3.2 The special status of the subject
3.3 SCUs and PCUs
3.4 Subjects – but no “objects”
4. Presenting valency in terms of valency constructions
4.1 Complement inventories and patterns
4.2 Valency constructions
5. Towards generalizations
5.1 Levels of generalization
5.2 Valency patterns
5.3 Participant patterns
5.4 General valency constructions and/or argument structureconstructions
5.4.1 Generalizing from item-specific valency constructions: combining participant roles and argument roles
5.4.2 Specifying form in argument structure constructions
5.4.3 A hierarchy of constructional levels: argument structure constructemes and allostructions
5.4.4 The valency realisation principle
5.5 The creative potential of argument structure constructions
6. The valency approach and the theory of argument structure constructions
References
Collostructional analysis: A case study of the English into-causative
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical and descriptive background
3. Simple collexeme analysis
4. Distinctive collexeme analysis
5. Co-varying collexeme analysis
6. Negative collexeme analysis
7. Summary and outlook
References
Lexico-grammatical patterns, pragmatic associations and discourse frequency
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical background
2.1 The general framework: Entrenchment and conventionalization
2.2 The place of lexico-grammatical patterns and pragmaticassociations in the EC-model
3. The purview of the field of lexico-grammatical patterns
4. The relation between pragmatic associations and types of lexico-grammatical patterns
4.1 Brief survey of previous literature
4.2 Survey of the criteria
4.3 Pragmatic associations and types of lexico-grammatical patterns
4.3.1 Routine formulae, discourse markers and transparent conventional phrases
4.3.2 Collostructions, valency patterns and verb-particle constructions
4.3.3. Multi-word prepositions and connectors and partly filled periphery constructions
4.3.4 Proverbs and idioms
4.3.5 Collocations and lexical bundles
5. Pragmatic associations, discourse frequency, chunking and salience
6. Conclusion
References
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