CONSTRUCTION GRAMMARS: Cognitive Grounding and Theoretical Extensions

Construction Grammars......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
1. Introduction......Page 10
2. The cognitive dimension......Page 11
3. Present advances......Page 15
4. Further issues......Page 17
Notes......Page 18
References......Page 19
I. Theoretical extensions......Page 24
1. Introduction......Page 26
2. Previous claims......Page 27
3.1. Implicit theme construction......Page 29
3.2. Motivating the implicit theme construction......Page 36
4. Omission under low discourse prominence......Page 37
5. Obligatorily transitive single-event verbs......Page 41
6. Ditransitives......Page 43
7. Explaining the tendencies......Page 45
Notes......Page 48
References......Page 49
1. Introduction......Page 54
2. Coercion by construction: Nominal syntax......Page 59
3. Argument-Structure constructions......Page 65
4.1. Aspectual meaning......Page 71
4.2. Aspectual concord constructions: The Frame Adverbial construction......Page 80
4.3. Aspectual Shift constructions: The Progressive......Page 81
4.4. Tense constructions: The Present in French and English......Page 88
Notes......Page 92
References......Page 96
1.1. About the problem: The Finnish permissive construction......Page 98
1.2. About the framework: Why two theories?......Page 100
2. Overview: Two CGs......Page 102
3. Complementary problems, complementary strong points......Page 104
4. A solution: Combining two CGs......Page 108
5. A test case: A brief history of the Finnish permissive construction......Page 115
6. A corollary: Syntactic structure and conceptual structure......Page 122
7. Conclusion......Page 123
Notes......Page 124
References......Page 127
1. The issue: The need for discourse study......Page 130
2. Setting the scene: Headlines and determiners......Page 131
3. The setting: On discourse and Construction Grammar......Page 132
4.1. Conventionalized discourse......Page 135
4.2. Syntax and discourse......Page 136
4.4. Frames as genres......Page 137
5. Frames of understanding......Page 138
6. Discourse patterns as conventional constructions......Page 139
7. Resolution: dp representation......Page 144
8. Evaluation: Mother drowned baby......Page 146
8.3. Interlanguage......Page 147
8.4. On the feasibility of alternative solutions......Page 148
9. Coda......Page 149
Notes......Page 150
II. Construction Grammars......Page 154
1. Overview......Page 156
1.1. Embodied schemas......Page 158
1.2. A first look at constructions......Page 162
2. A detailed analysis......Page 166
2.1. Referring expressions......Page 168
2.2. Predicating expressions......Page 172
3.1. Constructional analysis......Page 181
3.2. Simulative inference......Page 184
3.3. Scaling up......Page 189
4. Concluding remarks......Page 194
Notes......Page 196
References......Page 198
1. Conceptual semantics......Page 200
2. Is there a difference between conceptual semantics and Goldberg's Construction Grammar?......Page 207
3. Conceptual structure......Page 208
4.1. General tendencies......Page 212
4.2. Send......Page 214
4.3. Give......Page 215
4.4. Paint......Page 217
5. The instrumental elative constructions in Finnish......Page 219
5.1. The NP-construction [isku NP-ELA]......Page 220
5.2. The VP-constructions [saa/otta-NP-ELA GOAL], [saa/otta-NP-ELA], and [anta-NP-ALL NP-ELA]......Page 222
5.3. The clause-level construction [TIME tule-NP-ELA]......Page 225
6.1. General......Page 227
6.2. A simple example of the formal analysis: The o'clock ABL Adjunct......Page 228
6.3. An example of an ambiguous sentence......Page 230
6.4. Malefactive owner ABL adjunct......Page 231
6.6. The Losing Control ABL Adjunct......Page 238
7.1. The possessive construction and secondary predicate sentences......Page 240
7.2. Holding is controlling......Page 241
8. Conclusion......Page 244
Appendix: The case system in Finnish......Page 246
Notes......Page 247
References......Page 249
1. Word Grammar and Construction Grammar......Page 252
2. WG notation: Graphs not boxes......Page 254
3. Inheritance in WG......Page 257
4. Syntax without phrase structure......Page 259
5. A WG analysis of the What's X doing Y? construction......Page 264
6. A WG analysis of double objects......Page 269
7. Conclusion: What is a construction?......Page 279
References......Page 280
1. Introduction: Vanilla construction grammar and Radical Construction Grammar......Page 282
2. From syntactic categories to semantic maps......Page 286
2.1. The typological argument......Page 287
2.2. The logical argument......Page 291
3. From syntactic relations to symbolic relations......Page 296
3.1. The logical argument......Page 297
3.2. The typological argument......Page 298
3.3. Comprehending constructions without relations......Page 309
4. From universal constructions to syntactic space......Page 312
5. Conclusion......Page 318
Notes......Page 319
References......Page 321
Subject index......Page 324
Index of constructions......Page 332
The series Constructional Approaches to Language......Page 334