John Benjamins Publishing Company
Constructions, generalizations, and the unpredictability of language
Abstract
Attempts at predicting syntactic behavior from semantic or other generalizations are often unsatisfactory. It is argued that the notion of competition as used by Goldberg (2019) can serve as an explanation for unpredictability in language because established formulations that are preferred over others automatically distort the collocational profiles of verbs in argument structure constructions. As a consequence of this, an approach of seeing items as items-in-constructions (and not as elements attracted to them) is argued for. It is then shown how this items-in-constructions view can be applied to designing models of reference constructicons and mental constructicons.
Abstract
Attempts at predicting syntactic behavior from semantic or other generalizations are often unsatisfactory. It is argued that the notion of competition as used by Goldberg (2019) can serve as an explanation for unpredictability in language because established formulations that are preferred over others automatically distort the collocational profiles of verbs in argument structure constructions. As a consequence of this, an approach of seeing items as items-in-constructions (and not as elements attracted to them) is argued for. It is then shown how this items-in-constructions view can be applied to designing models of reference constructicons and mental constructicons.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Construction grammar across borders 1
- Trees, assemblies, chains, and windows 7
- Constructions, generalizations, and the unpredictability of language 55
- Intersubjectification in constructional change 95
- From construction grammar to embodied construction practice 119
- Advances in Embodied Construction Grammar 147
- Subject index 169
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Construction grammar across borders 1
- Trees, assemblies, chains, and windows 7
- Constructions, generalizations, and the unpredictability of language 55
- Intersubjectification in constructional change 95
- From construction grammar to embodied construction practice 119
- Advances in Embodied Construction Grammar 147
- Subject index 169
