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The case of the missing generalizations

  • Stephen Crain , Rosalind Thornton und Drew Khlentzos
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 10. Februar 2009
Cognitive Linguistics
Aus der Zeitschrift Band 20 Heft 1

Abstract

This review discusses several kinds of linguistic generalizations that pose a challenge for the constructionist approach to linguistic generalizations advocated by Adele Goldberg. It is difficult to see, for example, how such an account can explain the wide-ranging linguistic phenomena governed by structural properties, such as c-command, or semantic properties, such as downward entailment. We also argue against Goldberg's rejection of formal semantics in favour of an account of meaning based primarily on information structure and discourse function.

Keywords:: language acquisition; innateness; semantics; first order logic
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Received: 2007-08-30
Revised: 2008-01-24
Published Online: 2009-02-10
Published in Print: 2009-February

© 2009 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, D-10785 Berlin

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  2. ‘Caused motion’? The semantics of the English to-dative and the Dutch aan-dative
  3. Fictive dynamicity, nominal aspect, and the Finnish copulative construction
  4. The role of gesture in crossmodal typological studies
  5. The nature of generalization in language
  6. Constructions at work or at rest?
  7. On Subject-Auxiliary Inversion and the notion “purely formal generalization”
  8. The case of the missing generalizations
  9. Constructions and generalizations
  10. Cognitive (Construction) Grammar
  11. Constructions on holiday
  12. Developing constructions
  13. Constructions work
https://doi.org/10.1515/COGL.2009.008
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
language acquisition; innateness; semantics; first order logic

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Cognitive Linguistics comes of age
  2. ‘Caused motion’? The semantics of the English to-dative and the Dutch aan-dative
  3. Fictive dynamicity, nominal aspect, and the Finnish copulative construction
  4. The role of gesture in crossmodal typological studies
  5. The nature of generalization in language
  6. Constructions at work or at rest?
  7. On Subject-Auxiliary Inversion and the notion “purely formal generalization”
  8. The case of the missing generalizations
  9. Constructions and generalizations
  10. Cognitive (Construction) Grammar
  11. Constructions on holiday
  12. Developing constructions
  13. Constructions work
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