Full Description
Construction Grammar is one of the fastest-growing branches of functional syntax. Bringing together an international team of scholars, this handbook provides a complete overview of the current issues and applications in this approach. Divided into six thematic parts, it covers the fundamental notions of Construction Grammar, its conceptual origins and the basic ideas that unite its various branches, its solid empirical grounding and affinities with corpus linguistics, and the diverse perspectives in constructional scholarship. It highlights advances in discourse-related topics and applications to various domains, including multimodal communication, language learning and teaching and computational linguistics, and each chapter contains numerous illustrative examples and case studies involving a variety of languages. It also includes in-depth, empirically-grounded analyses of diverse theoretical, methodological, and interdisciplinary issues, alongside step-by-step introductions to the theory, making it essential reading for both researchers and students working in functional and cognitive approaches to linguistic analysis and syntactic theory.
Contents
Introduction Mirjam Fried and Kiki Nikiforidou; Part I. The Constructional View of Language: 1. Frame semantics Yoshiko Matsumoto; 2. Constructional syntax Hans C. Boas; 3. Framenets and constructicons Lars Borin and Benjamin Lyngfelt; 4. Construction morphology and relational morphology Ray Jackendoff and Jenny Audring; 5. Metaphors and constructions Karen Sullivan; Part II. Methodological and Empirical Foundations of Constructional Research: 6. Frequency: psychological and methodological considerations Martin Hilpert; 7. Corpus linguistics and the cognitive/constructional endeavor Stefan Gries; 8. Behavioral evidence and experimental methods Florent Perek; 9. Constructional networks Lotte Sommerer and Freek Van de Velde; Part III. Case Studies in Constructional Morphosyntax; 10. Different constructional approaches in practice: a comparative study Remi van Trijp; 11. Syntactic innovation and functional amalgams Laura A. Michaelis; 12. Constructions in spoken interaction Jan Lindström; Part IV. Multimodality and Construction Grammar: 13. Prosodic constructions Nigel G. Ward; 14. Insubordination at the interaction of discourse, grammar, and prosody; 15. Construction grammar and gesture Elisabeth Zima; 16. Constructional approaches to signed language Sherman Wilcox and Rocío Martínez; Part V. Constructions in Socio-Cultural and Typological Variation: 17. Constructions in typological and cross-linguistic context William Croft; 18. Constructions and language contact Marianne Mithun; 19. Constructions and lectal variation Timothy Colleman and Dirk Noël; 20. Construction discourse Jan-Ola Östman; Part VI. Constructional Applications: 21. Construction grammar and artificial intelligence Katrien Beuls and Paul Van Eecke; 22. Construction grammar and language models Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Laurence Romain, Petar Milin and Dagmar Divjak; 23. Construction-based language learning and teaching Sabine de Knop; 24. Construction grammar and literature Alexander Bergs.
