Full Description
This volume brings together empirical Construction Grammar studies to (i) promote cross-fertilization between researchers interested in constructional approaches on various languages, and (ii) further the growing trend towards empirically rigorous research that takes seriously a commitment not only to usage-based theories, but also to usage-based methodologies. Accordingly, the chapters in this volume comprise a range of studies not based on synchronic contemporary English but include Dutch, old English, Italian, and Spanish. This volume also features studies from a wider range of statistical sophistication: some chapters use more traditional frequency- and attestation-based approaches, some chapters use inferential statistical techniques to explore lexically specific preferences and patterns in constructional slots, and some chapters use multifactorial hypothesis-testing techniques or multivariate exploratory tools to discover patterns in corpus data that a mere eye-balling or simple statistical tools would not uncover.
Contents
1. Corpus-based approaches to Construction Grammar: Introduction (by Yoon, Jiyoung); 2. I. Part 1. Frequencies and probabilities; 3. A constructional perspective on conceptual constituency: Dutch postpositions or particles? (by Belien, Maaike); 4. Development and representation of Italian light-fare constructions (by Quochi, Valeria); 5. Constructions with subject vs. object experiencers in Spanish and Italian: A corpus-based approach (by Rozas, Victoria Vazquez); 6. II. Part 2. Collostructional Analysis; 7. Spanish constructions of directed motion - a quantitative study: Typological variation and framing strategy (by Pedersen, Johan); 8. A corpus-based study of infinitival and sentential complement constructions in Spanish (by Yoon, Jiyoung); 9. Sense-based and lexeme-based alternation biases in the Dutch dative alternation (by Bernolet, Sarah); 10. III. Part 3. Multifactorial and Multivariate Analysis; 11. A multifactorial analysis of that/zero alternation: The diachronic development of the zero complementizer with think, guess and understand (by Shank, Christopher); 12. A geometric exemplar-based model of semantic structure: The Dutch causative construction with laten (by Levshina, Natalia); 13. Index
