Abstract
This paper investigates linguistic creativity from a constructional perspective. Following a distinction between F-creativity (fixed creativity, like productivity) and E-creativity (extending creativity, creativity beyond rules), it discusses several possible origins for innovations in a given language: errors and mistakes, language contact, and the intentional manipulation of linguistic material in the form of snowcloning, coercion, and aberrancy. This paper shows that only one special form of aberrancy might be classified as ‘pure’ E-creativity. Rather than enforcing the dichotomy between E- and F-creativity, all the other sources of linguistic innovations seem to form a cline between these two poles.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Creativity and Construction Grammar: Cognitive and Psychological Issues
- Learn the Rules like a Pro, so you can Break them like an Artist (Picasso): Linguistic Aberrancy from a Constructional Perspective
- I don’t want to go all Yoko Ono on you
- Collo-Creativity and Blending: Recognizing Creativity Requires Lexical Storage in Constructional Slots
- Unwitting Inventors: Speakers Use -ly-Adverbs More Creatively when Primed
- Exploring the Creative Potential of Computational Construction Grammar
- The Role of Creativity in Multimodal Construction Grammar
- Creativity Parallels between Language and Music
- Creative Grammarians: Cognition, Language and Literature – An Exploratory Response
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Creativity and Construction Grammar: Cognitive and Psychological Issues
- Learn the Rules like a Pro, so you can Break them like an Artist (Picasso): Linguistic Aberrancy from a Constructional Perspective
- I don’t want to go all Yoko Ono on you
- Collo-Creativity and Blending: Recognizing Creativity Requires Lexical Storage in Constructional Slots
- Unwitting Inventors: Speakers Use -ly-Adverbs More Creatively when Primed
- Exploring the Creative Potential of Computational Construction Grammar
- The Role of Creativity in Multimodal Construction Grammar
- Creativity Parallels between Language and Music
- Creative Grammarians: Cognition, Language and Literature – An Exploratory Response